Belarus: The Beginning of the End?
“Stop calling me a mustachioed cockroach,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “I am still the president of this country.” But that doesn’t sound very presidential, does it?
“Stop calling me a mustachioed cockroach,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “I am still the president of this country.” But that doesn’t sound very presidential, does it?
“Assessing the people of America’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains.” That seemed to be the line taken by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas last week in his opinion piece for the New York Times. It caused great outrage, the Opinion Editor had to resign, and Cotton was roundly abused for ‘defending slavery’.
“A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three to 10 years,” wrote Yossi Melman, intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, on Sunday. So why, he asked, has Iran failed to do it in over thirty years of trying?
If you wanted evidence that reasonably competent government – not great, not corruption-free, just not awful – produces good results in the end, here it is.
Few people outside of Poland care about the outcome of last Sunday’s presidential election there, but maybe they should. Andrzej Duda is practically a Polish clone of Donald Trump, who will also be seeking re-election less than four months from now – and Duda squeaked out a victory.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” says an old friend to Jack Nicholson as the mother is killed, the little girl is handed over to the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Police Regional Office 6 yesterday issued a stern warning that it will not spare anybody in the intensified campaign against
The leadership of the House of Representatives will take its cue from the Senate, which will now take the lead on the proposal to amend
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Almost P1 million worth of illegal drugs have been seized by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the police
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The confirmed cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, has risen further to nine in the highly urbanized city of
SEASCAPE. The Suyak Island Mangrove Eco Park in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, is part of the 32,000 hectares of protected seascapes of the Sagay Marine Reserve* Andrew Altarejos photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Incumbent Mayor John Rey Tabujara appears to be unfazed by reports that he will be challenged in the Cauayan mayoralty race