"The WAR on error"
The pope's upcoming trip to Turkey will include a meeting with a Muslim cleric who was one of the first to denounce Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam and violence.
Neo-classical or neo-liberal economics upon which much free-market business practice is based differs rather radically from Catholic social thought.
"Globalization, a priori, is neither good nor bad. It will be what people make of it. No system is an end in itself, and it is necessary to insist that globalization, like any other system, must be at the service of the human person; it must serve solidarity and the common good."
Muslim hackers allegedly supporting al-Qaeda have announced - for the second time in a month - a planned attack on the Vatican's official website.
A spectre is haunting Germany—and it is not communism. The country is no longer the equitable middle-class society of its dreams. Rising inequality has led to two debates: one about bourgeois values, the other about an underclass. The first has long simmered. The second is causing a stir reminiscent of last year's “locust” debate over foreign investors.
Attitudes to the single market are changing, perhaps for the worse. Enforcing the single market is perhaps the most important, and most visible, thing that the union does. But the single market means different things to different people. To many continental Europeans, the single market is not about free but about “fair” trade.
Intelligence agencies have been warned that al Qaeda may be planning to attack air and rail travel in Europe in actions that may occur during the busy holiday travel season.
An imminent full-scale regional war between Somali Islamic forces and nearby armies supported by the West remains a serious threat in the Horn of Africa, despite claims of a peace deal having being brokered on Friday.
As always, statistics will be king at the next forum of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. These statistics are interesting and important, because many geopolitical myths surround the process of the Pacific's transformation into the world's key economic area. APEC differs structurally from the European Union just as Europe differs geographically from the Pacific region. They represent two different integration models.
Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Managing Director Jalal Fayyazi said the management of the world public opinion is exclusively in the hands of a few news agencies and news networks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that Iran's N-case should be settled just upon international laws including NPT and the rights of IAEA country members.
Iran must understand that if it fails to cooperate with the international community, it will “pay dearly”, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview with the US weekly Newsweek on the eve of his Washington visit.
Iran’s armed forces yesterday vowed to hit back against any military strike after a top Israeli official refused to rule out attacking the Islamic republic over its disputed nuclear programme. “The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will firmly respond to any military and threatening move.”
"Closing the Strait of Hormuz will seriously stop the flow of oil to the industrial states and they will face intolerable conditions."
For the second time in his extensive bureaucratic career, Robert Gates seems likely to survive an accelerated confirmation process that might otherwise have focused on long-standing allegations that he has sacrificed principles to please his political masters.
After his election humiliation George Bush has slunk back to Dad for help. It's Shakespeare meets Freud. The events of last week in America have an almost Shakespearean quality to them. At the centre of this epic psycho-political drama is a royal family of sorts in a war for survival: the Bush dynasty, a story of a father and his son, their tortured relationship and what they have had to do to survive.
The dollar declined this week, touching the lowest against the euro in more than two months, after China's central bank governor said the nation is diversifying its foreign-exchange reserves. The dollar may also come under pressure as the Federal Reserve is near the end of its cycle of interest-rate increases while Europe, Japan, Britain and other nations are still lifting borrowing costs.
A long overdue raise in the minimum wage... Saddam to hang...George and the Neocons slammed by the electorate... Americans are sick for medicare, and sick of the costs... Uncovering the corruption of the Iraq invasion...
The Economist book review...
Whatever you think about the second world war is wrong, and this book will prove it. That, at least, is the contention of Norman Davies, a trenchant British-born historian whose scope, ambition and knowledge about Europe are unmatched. His aim in this new history of the war is to puncture the comfortable myths created by the combination of popular culture (especially in films) plus the self-centred history taught in schools [and the COG]. Decades of junk history have given most if not all citizens of the countries that participated in it a picture of the war that is distorted, incomplete, or sometimes downright wrong. Mr Davies's biggest demolition job is of the factual errors and ignorance that support the complacent national versions of wartime history.
[WAR: Again, if you look at current events and prophecy with "distorted, incomplete, or sometimes downright wrong" historical-glasses, then your vision is going to be effected. And if you teach this distorted vision to others and lead them astray, then you will be held accountable - possibly at my own hands, if I decide to take Deut 18:20 seriously and as a mandate: "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death." After all, "Manly men in their assertiveness, raise and deal with uncomfortable and difficult issues, bringing them to the fore and making them public instead of sweeping them under the rug. "]
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