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Tension Mounts

Thursday, 3 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

While the situation in Libya worsens, it is extraordinary how some have carried on with the discussion of matters which have now been rendered petty and irrelevant, at least for the time being, like divorce and the price of fuel...

US Government budget cuts pose threat to recovery

Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Deep spending cuts by state and local governments pose a growing threat to America’s fragile economic recovery that is already grappling with high unemployment, depressed home prices and the surging cost of oil...

A Balanced look at Sino-American imbalances

Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

But this scenario failed to materialise. Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930s....

Food For thought in North Korea

Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Meet any Korean of a certain age, and you will learn about barley season, which begins in February and stretches through the cold months of early spring until the first of the winter barley crop is harvested...

The Highs and lows of parliamentary life

Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Unfortunately the statement and the response by the Opposition Leader were heavily under reported by the local media...

‘In People power, there is hope yet for the Middle East’

Monday, 28 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

For the first time since post-colonial independence, a genuine popular revolution has succeeded in bringing down two dictatorships in the Arab world and in such a spectacular manner that it has caught most governments in the region by surprise...

An Audience with a tyrant

Monday, 28 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I’m almost ashamed to have waited so long to put proverbial pen to paper to write about this experience. But, seeing as not many people want to talk about just what the Gaddafi regime is like up close, someone has to do it...

It’s All about them

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

It is unfortunate that Moviment Graffiti see every protest as an exercise in self-promotion. They have become Malta’s ‘rent-a-protestor’, the sort you see outside every summit meeting or Downing Street, whether it’s ...

Concerted Plan needs to emerge to oust Gaddafi

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

“We need action within hours not days... Gaddafi is killing his own people for wanting to be free”, an emotional Abdurraham Mohammed Shelagam, the Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, told the National Council meeting in New York on Friday....

Small Fry in a very rough sea

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

This is not the time to indulge in our normal partisan bickering, although even there much can be said and will undoubtedly be said, right or wrong....

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