The awfull feeling of being powerless
Posted on December 30, 2008 - Filed Under International, USA | Leave a Comment
I watch TV and I read about what is happening in Gaza. And I get this overwhelming feeling of being powerless. Just sitting there watching kids die, watching Israel perpetrating this gross overuse of power. I wish I could be able to do something to make it stop, that my country and the international society [...]
The Irish no – paid for by the United States?
Posted on September 28, 2008 - Filed Under European union, USA | Leave a Comment
Some media, including Der Spiegel and EUObserver reports that it was U.S. neokonservatives that paid for the Irish no-campaign. Der Spiegel quoted the French Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet from a meeting in Lyon: “Europe has powerful enemies on the other side of the Atlantic, gifted with considerable financial means.” further He was putting the blame [...]
The Arctic is heating up
Posted on August 24, 2008 - Filed Under Arctic, Canada, Norway, Russia, USA | 2 Comments
No, I’m not talking about climate change. Even though I obviously could have, the North West passage is open again this year. No, I’m talking about the international scramble to grab land (read sea bottom) in the Arctic. The United Nations Law of the Sea gives all the countries around the Arctic bassin until 2014 [...]