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BirdLife’s Frolics 

Sunday, 27 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

According to the new Birdlife Malta (BLM) executive Paul Debono, “Spring hunting just has to stop”. ...

In The national interest

Sunday, 27 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

That group of 27 disparate nations that form the European Union have fallen out between themselves over the Libyan affair, just as they tend to fall out over any crisis. ...

A Moment In Time - In cahoots with themselves

Sunday, 27 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I have always thought that the Maltese media, no doubt with obvious intentions, tend to give too much importance to has-beens in politics of both the Left and the Right....

Challenging Without vision

Sunday, 27 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The last few days have witnessed various people commenting in every football quarter about the UEFA Executive Committee elections that took place in Paris last Tuesday. ...

Don’t Expect a quick ending for Gaddafi

Saturday, 26 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

There’s a real possibility that Muammar Gaddafi could stave off the US and its international partners, clinging to power in a drawn-out and increasingly dangerous standoff....

How Did the European Union react to the Japanese disaster?

Saturday, 26 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

This is undoubtedly the biggest disaster in Japan since atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the final stages of World War II ...

Now What? United States ambiguity on Libya

Friday, 25 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The brutal realities in Libya, fears of damage to US credibility and heavy domestic and international pressure pushed President Barack Obama into military action against Muammar Gaddafi...

An Uncomfortable situation

Friday, 25 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

When something on a large scale happens somewhere in the world, we tend to take time and reflect on the event ...

Obama Of Arabia?

Thursday, 24 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Not since 1989 has the world seen such an all-consuming, all-engulfing wildfire of freedom and democracy, whose burning passions are sweeping across a region vast and old and desperately in need of reform...

Prudence? This Is not a Jane Austen novel

Thursday, 24 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The immaturity of Maltese democracy has been painfully illustrated over the last few weeks by the miserable shortcomings of our politicians in the Libyan crisis, and by the failure of most of the rest of us to object....

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