US elections in Slovenia

Fake elections in Slovenia confirmed what whole Europe was thinking." The US election may have happened half a world away, but for many Slovenians, Barack Obama’s victory hit close to home. It looked like any other polling place. The walls were adorned with American...

Hugo Chavez fails in Honduras

  In a landslide victory Profirio Lobo, the National Party Candidate, will become the next president of Honduras.  After months of nail bighting tensions Honduras has chosen "Pepe"Lobo, who was...

Rev. Wright was Right

Now that the fervor has subsided and we can actually look at what was said in context of history, we know deep down that Reverend Wright spoke for many of us. He was not divisive as many tried to paint him.  He was untactfully correct, brutally...

Philippines Massacre: 21 Killed in pre-poll violence

In a deadly attack that is being seen as one of the worst incidents of election-related violence in the Philippines, 21 people have been killed after a group of about 100 gunmen took a group of 36 people...

Hamid Karzai sworn in for 2nd Term, Vows to end Corruption

After a fraud ridden election, that accused Hamid Karzai supporters of stuffing ballot boxes and had his opponent Abdullah Abdullah withdraw from a re-run election, President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a...

UK Election Battlelines – Timing on treating symptoms?

News 18 11 2009: Labour bid to help needy pensioners. With less than seven months before the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK must go to the polls, Gordon Brown is to use the Queen's Speech to present a series of populist bills designed to set out the battlelines for...

Election of Republican candidates

Chris Christie won local elections in New Jersey Tuesday, after the counting of 71% of ballots in Tuesday night to Wednesday and became governor of the state of the eastern United States. Similarly in Virginia...

Electorial Voting changes to save money?.

News 30 10 2009: Fury over election voting plan. In the need to cut Public expenditure the Treasury has enlisted help from the Ministry of Justice in identifying where potential savings can be made to slash some £65 million from the cost of running elections. Such...

Obama asks for study on Regional leaders before Troop decision

The Washington Post reports this morning that President Obama has asked a small group of senior advisers led by VP Joe Biden to conduct a study on what regions could be more effective as partners of the United...

Afghan President's brother claimed to be on C.I.A payroll:NYTimes

A report in New York Times can literally brew up storm in the U.S. political cup. While the U.S. forces keep losing life daily fighting Taliban in Afghanistan and the U.S. authorities fight Mexican drug...

Strategy in Afghanistan – A Babel Fish Analysis

Journalist and Citizen Journalist that write about Afghanistan from their office or home comfy chair can not really have a clue about the need to change strategy in Afghanistan. Even those with an ex-military...

Al-Qaeda Threatens Oktoberfest

Bavarian police have arrested two Islamic extremists in Munich, leading to an increase in security at the ongoing Oktoberfest. Flights are banned from entering the air space above the festival, and vehicles are not...

Harper's Conservatives making inroads in Toronto, poll suggests

Canadian politics can be interesting from time to time.  Granted the debates and allegations on either side are never as heated as they are in the U.S., where Democrats accuse Republicans to be lunatics and...

Karzai defends Afghan election's integrity

It could take weeks before the final results of the Afghanistan election could be known.  A UN backed election commission has ordered 10% of ballots to be recounted. Provisional results of the election...

Latin America finally starts moving to the right. (in english)

** This is a translation of an article posted to NP by Jose Brechner. "The function of socialism is to elevate the suffering to a higher level." - Norman Mailer      After twenty years of democratic govenments that never turned to capitalism,...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from