Politics

En Liberal Venezolano el 2009.06.15

Since the spicy blog ¡No me digas, Teodoro!, stopped throwing darts against Teodoro Petkoff, it had been a while since I had fun with the absurd and nonsense of this ?good? Venezuelan socialist. For that I must thank Jose Luis Rivas, of Gohstbar for bringing to my attention this hilarious video of Tal Cual newspaper?s editor. Teodoro Petkoff intends to be sarcastic and mocks the notion that Venezuela has been a socialist country for many years before the neocommunists that govern today were in power....

En The Blog el 2008.11.05

Yesterday History was made. The United States of America haves a black president leading them. This is the dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. had back in 1963 and the same idea Lincoln had when he talked about a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal in November of 1963. Last night both speeches became real. Finally after more than 140 years a black man sits on the Presidential chair to lead the United States into a new and diverse future....

En Inter Poculis el 2008.09.27

The hard-hitting TV ad on Governor Sarah Palin?s support for aerial hunting of wolves is ?the first ad in over a month that seems to have broken through,? according to a new study by the independent research firm, HCD Research. According to the study, support for McCain-Palin among Democrats, Independents and even Republicans declined after viewing this powerful ad. In less than two weeks, this video has been viewed on YouTube nearly 380,000 times. It has sparked news stories on Governor Palin?s...

En Weltpolitik-Blog el 2007.04.06

by Ian Pryde Anyone strolling around a half-decent bookshop these days will find that most of the books on current affairs seem to deal with Islam and the war in Iraq - and China. The storyline is, of course, that China is changing the world as the rising giant and superpower of the twenty-first century. India also warrants the odd volume, but more by virtue of its size and software industry rather than its overall economy, even though it averaged GDP growth of 5.7% per annum between 1979 and 2006 and...