Mr. Bush, you shouldn’t have bothered. It wouldn’t have mattered what you said on your last Thursday evening as White House occupant. I’m sure many Americans did tune in out of curiosity as to how you were going to try to talk your way out of your mess this time. You used the same familiar […]
DEFENCE NEWS
Russian Navy to replace warship policing Somali waters after December 2008 A Russian destroyer will be sent to the Horn of Africa in December to take over from a missile frigate currently protecting civilian ships from Somali pirate attacks in the region, a Navy official said on Thursday. The Northern Fleet’s Neustrashimy (Fearless) frigate will […]
Whom to Blame for Mumbai Attacks
Over the past year, India has become a testing area for terrorists. They plan and execute and if it works then similar attacks can be planned in some other parts of the world. In such circumstances a question arises: who is the winner? And the answer is of course the terrorists. They killed the […]
World powers unreasonable
Iran has accused six major powers of ‘unreasonable behaviour’ over its disputed nuclear programme, but the European Union said on Tuesday it would stick to a dual approach combining diplomacy with the threat of sanctions. Tehran’s accusation was contained in a letter from its top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili that was delivered to European Union […]
Hurricane Gustav’s threat to the Gulf Coast halted about 15 percent of U.S. refining capacity
about 2.4 million barrels of refining capacity have been halted, roughly 15 percent of the nation’s total, according to figures from Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos. The U.S. Gulf Coast is home to nearly half the nation’s refining capacity. "Fifteen percent looks small, but the impact is larger than meets the eye," […]
Is This the Day America Started Growing Up?
An awful lot of childish behavior has been on parade on the campaign trail this year. Well, yeah, pretty much every campaign season we see that, but this year has seemed even more juvenile than usual. Are we getting beyond that, at long last? Did we just take a big step? There’s one way in […]
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