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Canada seeks to revive the Cold War.
‘The Russians are coming’. That was the headline - for all intents and purposes - of a recent press release by the Canadian government. The Conservative government of neo-con Stephen Harper is a militarist one...
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The Cold War Is Back!
At the least espionage aspect of it is. Just days after a Cold War-esque swap of American and Russian spies, a peculiar case of an Iranian...
made popular Jul 19 2010
At midnight last Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree pardoning four Russians jailed for years because of their contacts with the West. The group...
made popular Jul 15 2010
In the final chapter of a saga worthy of a spy novel, the U.S. and Russia agreed to one of the biggest prisoner swaps between the countries since the Cold War.
The...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Medvedev, who started his U.S. visit with a tour of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, will hold talks with Obama and then meet U.S. business leaders to pitch...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Japan has confirmed the existence of a secret Cold War deal allowing the transit of nuclear-armed US vessels through its ports.
The move by a government-appointed...
made popular Mar 10 2010
In an article published by the Izvestia daily newspaper, Gennady Matishov, who is the director of the Murmansk Marine Biology Institute in northern Russia, explained...
made popular Dec 9 2009
Honduras’s supreme court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and ordered his arrest if he returns.
The...
made popular Aug 24 2009
Manuel Zelaya’s chances of getting restored to the Honduran presidency become more distant with each passing week. Across Latin America, his allies and foes alike...
made popular Aug 20 2009
Honduras – Honduras’ coup-installed government said it does not expect to be judged fairly by an international panel that arrived Monday to investigate...
made popular Aug 18 2009
The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras’ political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of...
made popular Aug 14 2009
THE coup here has brought back a lot of Central America’s cold war ghosts, but few as polarizing as Billy Joya, a former police captain accused of being the former...
made popular Aug 8 2009
The shadow of the Cold War has returned to the US coastline with the first detection in 15 years of Russian nuclear-powered submarines operating offshore.
With the...
made popular Aug 6 2009
The rancour and mistrust of Bush-era relations between Russia and the US were cast aside yesterday when presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed an agreement...
made popular Jul 7 2009
Fidel Castro has called on Latin American countries to support an end to Cuba\’s isolation when they meet the US president at a regional summit.
Cuba is not...
made popular Apr 6 2009
On Thursday, February 5 a service was held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the last death that resulted from an attempt to cross the Berlin Wall.
Karin...
made popular Feb 10 2009
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Fall of Russian communism may have sent a good signal to the world and the feel of triumph for the western countries because of their belief that this...
made popular Jan 19 2009
In his September 4 commentary titled Who Wants Cold War II? [1], Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, proposes a new world order in which the United...
made popular Oct 12 2008
Are we baking to the cold war ? This question is completely justified. After the American interfering in the worlds affairs and invading independent countries , most...
made popular Aug 27 2008
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During the past couple of years the U.S. appears to be operating in a more preemptive style of foreign policy. In constrast to the gung-ho, bomb you if you disagree...
made popular Aug 27 2008
There’s an irony in the fact that when Belgium laid out the month’s
made popular Aug 21 2008
It’s being said that oil resources are the route cause of the conflict. For the Russian government, petroleum is a tool that can be used to launch the country as...
made popular Aug 21 2008
Russia should be stripped of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics for sending its troops into neighbouring Georgia, Representatives Allyson Schwartz and Bill Shuster, both of...
made popular Aug 19 2008
Britain’s security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown’s first meeting with...
made popular Jul 5 2008
The melting ice cap could open the North Pole region to easy navigation for five months a year, according to the latest Arctic Climate Impact Assessment,...
made popular Jun 18 2008
It is a popular thing to wish for America’s demise as a superpower and to see the weakening of Western civilization and capitalism. The grass is always greener...
made popular Jun 4 2008
Let us leave history to the historians. Well if only we could. You can do that if you are discussing German reunification, or the 100 Years War. But when it is the...
made popular May 22 2008
When Nikita Khrushchev met Richard Nixon by a fitted kitchen at the end of the 1950s the stage was set for the most surprising domestic row in diplomatic history.
The...
made popular Apr 23 2008
As if the world didn’t already have enough proof that Russia’s proud KGB spy ruler, Vladimir Putin, intends to return his nation to the days of cold war and...
made popular Apr 11 2008
A battalion of elite French paratroopers may help stiffen Canada’s commitment to fighting in Afghanistan, but the war against Taliban insurgents is far from...
made popular Apr 2 2008
Well, we can see the days coming back’ the days of cold war; we can see Russia is back and that too with a bang.
If US tested the ‘mother of all...
made popular Sep 12 2007
As NATO countries try to build military bases near Russian borders, Vladimir Putin froze Moscow’s commitments under a European arms control pact highlighting the...
made popular Apr 27 2007
Well, we can see the days coming back- the days of cold war. The whole Litvinenko affair has had most of us wondering if Russia was returning to the days of KGB. Other...
made popular Mar 7 2007
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