West Africa: The Coup in Guinea

For now the coup leaders seem to have taken power.  The former governmenthas given up.  We can only hope the newArmy rulers will do what is best forthe country. " This year alone Mauritania, Guinea...

Coup Attempt in Guinea After Strongman Dies+

2nd UpdateGuinea coup leader, troops parade through capital"The leader of a coup in Guinea and several thousand soldiers paraded through the capital Wednesday as cheering crowds screamed "long live the...

Blessed are the CEOs - Prayer Offered for Global Economies

If any of you have beaten me to the punch on this one I apologize for putting it up here again.  But this was so good I couldn't avoid sharing it with youse guys."For these and other reasons Cindy is calling for a Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies on Wednesday,...

Maldives heads to historic presidential poll

Asia's longest serving political leader is facing the prospect of losing his job as the President of the Maldives. The Indian Ocean tourist paradise is having its first taste of democracy with multi-party elections being held to choose a president for the next five years. The...

The strongman and the war on terror

"The resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is a sign of how the "war on terror" is changing. Mr Musharraf was once the lynchpin of Pakistan's alliance with the United States in President George Bush's war, but the days of a single strongman laying down and...

The Real Survivor Fiji – European Resolve :: MAXINE

"Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid – Image Credit: AFP The Real Survivor Fiji – European Resolve The USA lite of the European Union, where the Commissioners of a...

The Bush administration fails to stop al-Qaida in Pakistan - By Arthur Delan...

" The New York Times leads with a big story on the growth of al-Qaida in Pakistan and the Bush administration's waffling over plans to give commandos greater latitude to operate in the country's tribal areas. The Washington Post leads locally with the surprise death of a...

Australia`s Keating : "I told Soeharto to go"

""You can imagine, there's not many other people in history who have actually lined up to someone like Suharto and told him to resign," Keating was quoted as saying by DPA Friday in an excerpt from a documentary that the SBS television network will air next month."It turned...

Saanrat "Lydia" Wisutthithadato Not Thaksin Shinawatra's Part Time Lover

" It's been a year since the former Thai prime minister was ousted in a bloodless coup and despite stringent efforts by the military junta to black out news of the former strongman, the media-savvy Thaksin Shinawatra has found novel ways to remain in the Thai public eye. On...

Military Coup Now OK! - Fiji chiefs change stance

Maybe it's in what they drink! "Wellington - Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs - traditional leaders of the indigenous Fijian population - did an about-turn on Wednesday and announced its support for the new...

EYES ON ORTEGA - NY Post

"REMEMBER the Dictator in Designer Glasses? That's what Daniel Ortega was called in 1985 after Page Six reported on the Nicaraguan strongman's shopping spree at Cohen's Fashion Optical at 60th and Lex. The Marxist...

Stability v democracy?

Daniel Pipes suggests that stability in Iraq is more necessary now than the forms of democracy, as, evidently, he has been since the despot Saddam Hussein was deposed.  The occasion of his restatement of his case is today's article by Mr John Burns in the New York Times,...

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