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Saturday, 15 January 2011

Freedom is declining in the world

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It does not look good for freedom and democracy in the world: Global freedom declined for a fifth straight year in 2010 as authoritarian ...

A return to stage choaches?

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  (image antiqueprints.com)                                         The stage coach - twice faster than the electric car between London and...
Friday, 14 January 2011

EU gas agreement with Azerbaijan - "major breaktrough" may be illusory

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The European Union has signed a natural gas agreement with Azerbaijan . EU Commission president José Barroso called the agreement "a...
Thursday, 13 January 2011

Russia Among `World's Riskiest' Locations for Investors

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One can only hope that foreign investers read this piece by Bloomberg before considering investments in Russia: Russia is “one of the wo...

Krugman on the euro crisis

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Paul Krugman is nowadays often more a leftist political agitator than an economist. However, his description of the euro crisis is very muc...
Wednesday, 12 January 2011

EU plans to lift China arms embargo

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British MEP Daniel Hannan (conservative) is not surprised that the European Union now plans to lift its arms embargo on China : What th...

China´s repressive treatment of human rights activists - The shameful silence of Western leaders

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Western political leaders - busy feting visiting Chinese "benefactors" - are shamefully silent on the fate of Gao Zhisheng and o...