THE DAILY WAR!
Non-pagan/papal date: 10-14
THE HOLY ROMAN
Slow day in the Whore House...
EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
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Ahead of Angela Merkel's visits to America and Russia, there is much interest in her views—and her methods.
EUROPE/RUSSIA
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The EU has stumbled twice in the Balkans. Now it has a chance to make amends.
Q&A from the CFR
Beneath the Baltic Sea, a pipeline is being built between Russia and Germany. The project has come to symbolize Europe's growing reliance on Moscow for its ever-expanding energy needs.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East: With every passing year after the turn of the century, the instability of the Gulf region grew. By the beginning of 2006, nearly all the combustible ingredients for a conflict - far bigger in its scale and scope than the wars of 1991 or 2003 - were in place.
Deep in the lawless triangle connecting Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, eight terrified Iranian soldiers are being held hostage by a Sunni group that is vowing to "slaughter" them if Teheran does not bow to its demands. The emergence of a fanatical Sunni group operating inside Iran's south-eastern border poses a startling new threat to the country's Shia clerical regime.
The Iranian president rounded on his Western critics yesterday, blaming the "medieval" attitude of international "war criminals" and "bullies" for driving the crisis over his country's nuclear programme. A defiant Ahmadinejad insisted that Iran would not curb its nuclear ambitions, even if ordered to by the UN Security Council.
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In this follow-up to his highly readable biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Rogerson offers a vital service to western readers by exploring the origins of the Shia-Sunni schism.
A wide range of recent news and policy reports clearly reveal the consequences of ongoing international failure to confront Khartoum’s National Islamic Front. Other reports suggest that a border war between Chad and Sudan may break out at any time.
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
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America leads the world but does it rule it? And what should we feel about being part of the empire, if it is one?
ECONOMY
The economy that Alan Greenspan is about to hand over is in a much less healthy state than is popularly assumed.
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The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
MISC
The conventional wisdom that Western success depended on overcoming religious barriers to progress is "utter nonsense," says the author of a new book - "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success".
Paranoid Protestant Prophecy Propagandist...
Pat Robertson fires off controversial statements with a regularity that seems downright reckless, not only to a big chunk of the public but also to an increasing number of evangelical leaders who say the Christian broadcaster doesn't speak for them. Yet to those who share Robertson's conservative and "charismatic" Christian beliefs, his comments are less a sign of arrogance than of modern-day prophecy and a vivid sense that Bible-based forecasts are playing out in modern times.
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