By Nana Kurashvili in Tbilisi (CRS No. 442, 01-May-08) The hottest topic of conversation in the Georgian election campaign at the moment is a candidate who is not actually standing. The abrupt withdrawal of the speaker of parliament, Nino Burjanadze, has stirred fevered debate about what one of the country’s most popular politicians plans to […]
Sin City Soon to Rise in the Capital
Sinners, gamblers, schemers and conceit driven individuals will no longer hied to Las Vegas, the gambling capital of the world, to play casino and sleep with sexy bunnies in the strip joints, or visit Macao, Asia’s gambling capital, to while away extravagantly. The Philippine Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is now readying to construct “Gambling City” which […]
Extremists can’t take over Pakistan
President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday categorically ruled out any possibility of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals falling into the hands of extremist forces, saying a competent command and control system is in place to look after these national assets. He said if al-Qaeda or Taliban wanted to get hold of our nuclear assets, they would have to […]
Interview: John Pilger talks to London Progressive Journal
DP: This October (2007) the Burmese people once again took to the streets in defiance of the military junta – in the biggest outpouring of popular dissent since the 1988 Uprising. Though mainstream news coverage often alludes to the situation being an "internal" matter, the US State Department has admitted it is involved in a […]
A death foretold – stranger than fiction
Benazir Bhutto has, at the time of writing, been dead all of 30 hours and the version of events that caused her death has already changed at least three times and each version is so full of contradiction that at 1 a.m. in the morning of December 29 this is the scenario that I see […]
Spain’s divorce rate soars after rules relaxed
Conservative groups have reacted angrily to an official report showing that divorce rates in Spain have soared since a new law was introduced by the Socialist government in 2005. According to the National Institute of Statistics, 126,952 divorces were registered in 2006, a 74.3 per cent increase on the previous year. The sharpest rise was […]
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