We need a new Checkpoint Charlie

Telegraph - Sixty years on we will have moved from Checkpoint Charlie to Checkpoint Georgia. It is a bad scenario. We can avoid it only by surrendering. But we do have something to thank the Russians for. They seem to have given us a choice. Or perhaps this is the real hollowness of [...]

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The new Cold War didn’t start in Georgia

Telegraph - In classical mythology, Georgia was the land where the Argonauts had to harness bulls with bronze hooves to win the Golden Fleece. Modern Georgia is the source of a treasure scarcely less precious: oil and gas from central Asia and the Caspian, piped along the only east-west energy corridor that Russia [...]

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McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate

NY Times - Senator John McCain chose Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate on Friday, shaking up the political world with a surprise pick at a time when his campaign has been trying to attract women, especially disaffected supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Go-Ahead for Germany’s Biggest Mosque

Spiegel - After much controversy, Cologne City Council finally voted in favor of building Germany’s largest mosque in the city. The opposition of a local far-right group wasn’t enough to stop plans that will change the city’s historic skyline forever.

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Procedura i vladavina prava

B92 Blog by Goran Miletic - Jedna od važnih i omiljenih disciplina vlasti u Srbiji je pokazivanje ažurnosti. To nije ažurnost u smilu da se nešto radi brzo & na vreme (to bi bio viši nivo), već namera da građanstvu pokažu da uopšte nešto rade. Kao glavni stub tako shvaćene ažurnosti uzimaju se [...]

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Luciferov lanac

B92 Blog by Zorana Z. Mihajlović Milanović -  Da li smo toliko oguglali na naznake i jasne pojave nepravilnosti, kako u svakodnevnom životu, tako i u poslovanju npr javnih preduzeća? Svega smo se naslušali, od sukoba interesa, zloupotrebe položaja, burazerskih i kumovskih privatizacija, stranačkih nadmetanja do krvi i prepucavanja, a sve „za našu [...]

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Shadows in the sunshine

Guardian, by Slavenka Drakulić - Croatia is a “small country for a big vacation”, as the ads tell you. But beyond the marketing and optimistic reports of millions of holidaymakers spending their “big vacation” there, there is less cheerful news, casting an unpleasant shadow over that small tourist paradise on the Adriatic.

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