Taiwan's 2009 Central Government Budget, written 7 hours ago, The Taiwan Journal reported on September 5, 2008 that the Executive Yuan sent its annual budget over to the Legislative Yuan last week. Not too many surprises, although the defense budget has some anomalies. Taiwan has averaged between U....

Incompetence or corruption?, written 3 hours ago, Something that may be aired in the MSM this week, flagged up by Reuters, is the outcome of the case before the ECJ for a ruling on Tuesday, which may leave the travel company Thomas Cook a half billion pounds richer.The case itself stems from an earl...

Some Addt?l Thoughts Re: Georgia, written 2 weeks ago, Just a few quick thoughts having scrolled through comments from the last post on Georgia. --I did not mean to necessarily make the case that all NATO expansion was an awful idea coming out of the Cold War. We won it, after all, and there were ar...

Small changes to 'This is Zimbabwe', written 8 hours ago, We've re-designed 'This is Zimbabwe' so it is clearly integrated into our main website. In addition to this cosmetic change, our blog archives are now filed on a page of their own. They can be found via the link at the top of the sidebar; we ...

Kosmopolit covers topics related to politics and culture from a pro (but critical) European perspective with an emphasis on EU politics, Eastern Europe and international politics.

The Logic of Russian Energy, written 2 days ago, Intense media analysis of the situation between Russia and Europe continues. The Baltic States feel vulnerable, both on energy grounds and because of the?presence of local Russian minorities. 30% or so of Estonia and Latvia is made up of?Russians aggr...

Writings on international law and policy.

Shahanshah's resting place., written 4 weeks ago, An Iranian compatriot visiting our Emperor's temporary resting place in Egypt.

The Road to Malacañang for Mar Roxas, written 1 day ago, Whew! I was offline for almost 8 days because I was attending important school matters especially the fast-approaching Pre-Final exams. But anyways, I would like to share to all of you a great article by Prof. Danton Remoto about Senator Mar ...

Quote of the Month (August), written 6 hours ago, "Irish Tory" at the weblog Irish Tory:The problem with most 'Constitutional Monarchs', is that they are in fact, not very 'constitutional' at all, they are absent monarchs or plastic monarchs. Kings and queens without power sidelined by bit...

Power and Harmony Part 6: Closing Arguments, written 3 days ago, I would like to thank Mr. Eckel for the very cordial debate as well as the PSA for offering me this opportunity. Mr. Eckel was a challenging opponent, and I salute him for his effort. Rather than providing a lengthy discussion rewritin...

American bloggers detained in Bejiing, written 2 weeks ago, I found this article this morning and found it interesting that China is not only detaining and deporting foreign Pro-Tibet demonstrators but actively seeking out anyone in Beijing with Pro-Tibetan ideals. A group of "citizen journalis...

Parliamentary election in Angola, written 2 days ago, Parliamentary election is underway in Angola, the first in sixteen years. The governing party is expected to win, and international observers from EU, AU and SADC have all been invited.There has been criticism of mistakes made in organizing the e...

The New Phase in My Life, written 3 days ago, On Sunday I published my last article at Addustour stating that I will stop writing my daily political column after 9 years in daily writings and 15 years of contributing to Jordanian and Arab newspapers and magazines. This decision was not a reaction, n...

Canadian Election Watch - Day 1, written 1 hour ago, Game on!My election prediction: some older white guy will end up running our country in October.Alrighty then...A note to my American readers. I'd call you "friends" but I don't want to sound like John McCain. Anyway, when our current PM...

Moscow has announced it is ready to sell new weapons..., written 2 weeks ago, Moscow has announced it is ready to sell new weapons to Syria, triggering alarm from Israel.The big boys may argue all they want, but can you guess who will get screwed over in the end, comme d'habitude? The answer is Leba...

The Elephant in the Room, written 6 days ago, The Elephant in the Room is a documentary following British filmmaker Dean Puckett through his journey into the 9/11 Truth Movement: a global movement of 'conspiracy theorists' who believe that the official explanation about what happened on 9/11 is tota...

China and Georgia, written 4 days ago, On 08/08/08, as the Olympics began, Russian tanks moved into Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia. China's position on the Georgian situation is interesting to consider since China has several provinces that suffer ethnic unrest (re:...

The Universal Programmed Crime, written 1 month ago, The Universal Programmed Crime executed against me and against my family in Tripoli Libya   Date:-5/8/2008 Important note:- Not exist any specification or analysis about the crimes were happened against me and against my family before 2000 and no...

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