Update (June 3, 14 hours UT) With security heightened throughout the country, elections in Syria are proceeding normally. The country has largely been pacified following the retreat of terrorist opposition forces from Homs in early…
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Ruling party to remain dominant for the next five years Twenty years after Freedom Day in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) has won overwhelmingly in the fifth national democratic elections held inside…
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/06/world/americas/nicolas-maduro-amanpour-interview/index.html CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Mr President, thank you for joining me, welcome to our program. PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO: Thank you for being here with us here in Venezuela. AMANPOUR: And welcome to CNN of…
Imperialist states disregard AU, SADC, COMESA who endorsed elections Zimbabwe held national harmonized elections on July 31 returning President Robert Mugabe to office for his seventh term since independence in 1980. The Zimbabwe African National…
Venezuela’s opposition leader Henrique Capriles went to the United States to find ways and means aimed at destabilizing the situation in his country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said. “He had meetings in Miami…
“Bibi was sandalized!” is the most popular (and lost-in-translation) assessment of the elections’ result in the Hebrew media. Naftali Bennett from the Jewish Home is Bibi’s right sandal while Yair Lapid from Yesh Atid (“There…
Israel’s infamous West Bank Wall funded by … http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64460.shtml One of the wiser political observations I’ve read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National: “the debate about the two-state solution has become an…
The US/West Election Styles: “It’s Overly-Discussed and “Porn”-like Spectator Sport To draw an analogy (to another overly-discussed deed): You wait forever for it. You have little choices. “Creativity” makes you weird and perverse in the…
Proposal 1, a ballot initiative to reinstate Public Act 4, popularly known as the “dictator law,” was defeated in the November 6 elections. The Act had been suspended when the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the…
Recently, I was boarding the C train in New York City where I encountered a woman who looked to be in her late 70’s sitting on the subway wearing a t-shirt which read: IS…