A Moment In Time - At last... pope-blessed condoms
Sunday, 28 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I guess it had to happen one day or another. The never-ending story about the Catholic Church and the forbidden use of contraceptives had created a surreal situation....
Stalin, Our contemporary
Saturday, 27 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
80 years ago, in the autumn of 1930, Joseph Stalin enforced a policy that changed the course of history, and led to tens of millions of deaths across the decades and around the ...
VAT Report adopted by EP
Saturday, 27 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
Yet another VAT report has been adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg. What does this report consist of and how does it tie in with the other work on VAT that has been done so far?...
Iran: How to break the deadlock?
Friday, 26 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
First, because it questions the NPT as a relevant remnant of the former bipolar system: even if the treaty was never purely efficient before 1989, it derived its main strength from the two superpowers’ patronage....
Vietnam’s Chinese Lessons
Friday, 26 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
But ever since those immortal scenes of US army helicopters hovering above the abandoned US embassy in Saigon in 1975, Vietnam has mostly slipped from the world’s consciousness....
Enough About the sand
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
The things people spoke about and the things you read about in the two English-language newspapers which existed then just weren’t the same thing. Reading the newspaper was like ploughing through dispatches from another reality....
Another Hitch – embryo freezing
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The recent parliamentary report has again given rise to the question on embryo freezing; something which is a ‘side effect’, as it were, of Invitro Fertilization (IVF)...
Tehran And Kabul: from intimate enemies to pragmatic allies
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Recently it was brought to light that the Islamic Republic of Iran frequently contributes significant quantities of money to the government of Hamid Karzai.reno...