Norway May Be Giving Finland The Ultimate 100th Birthday Gift

Click:cnc machinist We’ve all been challenged to find birthday gifts for the people in our lives who have everything, and countries are no different. Thinking outside the box for Finland’s 100 years of independence, Norway is considering shifting its border around a mountain so its Nordic neighbor will have a new highest peak, The Guardian reports. …

Has the west given up on democracy?

Click:electric cargo tricycle suppliers Tunisian General Rachid Ammar announces his resignation on TV, June, 2013. Demotix/ Chedly Ben Ibrahim. All rights reserved. Authoritarianism is on the march. Aggregate Freedom House scores on political rights and civil liberties have declined each of the past nine years. A third of all democratic regimes since the ‘third wave’…

Libya: "Rejoicing at our bloody democracy"

Click:EGP Ice Mint Nicotine Pouches Today, the United Nations enters a new chapter in its military history. It will discuss a new Security Council resolution that seeks authorisation for a mission to bomb boats used by human traffickers and smugglers in the Libyan waters of the Mediterranean. If it passes, which it likely will, overnight,…

How to lose the next war in the Middle East: the short answer, fight it!

Click:Meditation Accessories The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, known as "the mother of all bombs", and the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US in a conflict. The US military dropped it on a tunnel complex used by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan. Picture by ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved. Make no mistake:…

A Food Desert In Paradise

Click:澳洲風扇燈 On September 11, 1992, Hurricane Iniki battered the northernmost island of Hawaii. With 145-mph winds and 30-foot storm surges, it was the most disastrous hurricane ever to strike the state. It flattened fields of sugarcane, shut down the tourism industry, killed six people, left 7,000 homeless, and nearly destroyed the production of a little…

Crime, violence and political gridlock in El Salvador. Business as usual

Click:slot milling Marchers write slogans in the walls in San Salvador, May 2013. Rene Figueroa/Demotix. Some rights reserved. Between January and September 2015, a total of 5,015 homicides were recorded in El Salvador. With a 71% increase compared to the same period last year, 2015 is on track to becoming the deadliest year in the…

Being a Kurdish-Turkish mistake

Click:裝潢 Portrait of Saladin the Great (before A.D. 1185; short. Wikicommons/Ismail al-Jazari (1136–1206). Some rights reserved.Robert Leonard Rope(RLR): Please briefly describe your background. Were you named after Saladin the Great? And what was it like to teach at a university in Turkey?   Saladdin Ahmed (SA): I never know how to answer questions about my background…

Lexit will only strengthen nationalism

Click:cnc lathe Nuit Debout banner reads "They have billons, we are millions", Place de la Republique, April, 2016, Paris. Bertrand Combaldieu / Press Association. All rights reserved.A row of left-wing commentators have called for a Brexit recently, arguing that this move would profoundly reinvigorate democracy in the UK. ‘Reinvigorating’ sounds like spring, youth, detox and…

Iran’s military objectives in Syria and Russia’s contradictory positions

Click:china tours from china travel agent Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.Political and military officials in Iran insist they are maintaining an advisory role in Syria, and that members of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Iran’s regular army dispatched to Syria are not directly engaged in fighting Syrian opposition groups. However, aside from the IRGC,…