Part-time defender David Artell vows to keep Bayern star Robert Lewandowski in check when Gibraltar take on Poland
Allen Bula does not lack ambition for his team of teachers, fire fighters and civil servants from the tiny territory of Gibraltar as they embark on their European Championship qualification campaign. The manager and his side take on Poland on Sunday in ...
New NATO force: Who will pay the bill?
New NATO force: Who will pay the bill? New strategies, more deterence, more soldiers in eastern Europe. All these will cost NATO money, but where should it come from? Consensus was lukewarm at best in the Wales summit. "The details will be worked out in the coming weeks," NATO Secretary General Ande ...
Pre-boarding news: Plane shot down over Ukraine
I tend to be a nervous flyer. If you’re on a plane we’re on, you’ll recognize me as the one holding it up with both hands. And the flight to Amsterdam August 18 to meet our river boat was going to last 10 hours. I’d been psyching myself up for it ever since we bought the tickets last October. Two ho ...
Climate Alarm Bells Ring, but UN and Obama Administration Fail to Act
KEVIN ZEESE AND MARGARET FLOWERS POPULAR RESISTANCE / OP-ED Published: Saturday 6 September 2014 The climate crisis is a ticking clock that demands immediate effective action, yet real solutions are being suppressed. When will climate change be taken seriously? Get your complimentary 200 page guide ...
The First World War’s Relevance to Our Times
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has been greeted with not much more than a yawn by citizens of the West. Sure, there have been the obligatory documentaries, the reconciliation hugs by the leaders of France and Germany and the commemorative ceremonies played out on that War’s mos ...
Review of the Week
A lot has changed in the few months that this weekly review went into abeyance. The world is still full of violence, anger, bigotry and stupidity. It just moves down the road or to an adjoining country. Last year Syria was a worry and Russia was preventing us from doing anything meaningful about it. ...
“Eu vi o Futuro”, diz Naomi Klein, “e ele se parece com New Orleans depois do Furacão Katrina” (Leia: 5 lições para a Esquerda presentes em “This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. The Climate”
Noami Klein portrayed by Vogue: “Born in Montreal in 1970, Klein grew up the daughter of left-wing American parents who moved to Canada because of the Vietnam War and continued their progressive politics there: Her mother, Bonnie Sherr Klein, was part of Canada’s first feminist film studio, while he ...
Scandinavian Settlement Studied in Poland
http://www.archaeology.org/news/2492-140905-poland-scandinavia-settlement-bracteates SUCHAŃ, POLAND—Archaeologists have returned to northern Poland to examine a site that may have been inhabited by Scandinavian settlers 1,500 years ago. In 2006, single-sided coins known as bracteates, metal pendants ...
Israel's Moral Depravity
Somebody left a copy of the Toronto Star lying around the other day. Out of curiosity, I opened it up to the opinions page and found this nauseating example of complete moral depravity: "World too hasty in judging Israel’s conduct in Gaza : Israel’s conduct should be judged on the same level as that ...
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That in our day and age any man, woman or child should be attacked or harassed on account of race, creed, nationality, ideology, social or physical characteristics is completely unacceptable. The world needs to come to grips with the age-old tragedy of Jews being so often discriminated and persecute ...
Obama in Estonia: Russian Into Promises
King Lear had a fool, and sometimes I think history is God’s fool, as history is such a joker. Back in 1945 British Conservative MPs were upset about the recent Yalta Conference. They felt that Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were partners in Crimea by putting Poland in thrall to the Soviet Union, ...
