More interesting were the remarks of former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, former Canadian foreign affairs minister John Baird and Czech President Milos Zeman who were eloquent and clear-headed in talking about the Iran threat and their countries’ ties to Israel. Zeman declared at one point that as President John Kennedy once declared “Ich bin ein Berliner,” today we should all be saying, “I am a Jew.” He then repeated it in Hebrew.
In the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times. That amounts to once every 28 months for an entire century (see table). Direct intervention occurred in 17 of the 41 cases. These incidents involved the use of U.S. military forces, intelligence agents or local citizens employed by U.S. government agencies. In another 24 cases, the U.S. government played an indirect role.
Gerrymandering — drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party — is a difficult process to explain. If you find the notion confusing, check out the chart above — adapted from one posted to Reddit this weekend — and wonder no more.
Vážený pane Pehe, přiznám se, že mi působí určité potíže přistoupit na Váš způsob argumentace. Vždyť je to jen nedávno, co jsem byl spolu s dalšími občany přesvědčován, že Saddám Husajn je nový Adolf Hitler, který akutně ohrožuje celý svět. Po útoku na Irák se ukázalo, že Saddám je slabší než kdykoliv dříve, jeho armáda je špatně vystrojena i vyzbrojena a má hodně jinou morálku, než měly počátkem války jednotky Hitlerovy.
„Kissinger … had previously planned an underground effort to improve relations with Havana,“ according to the Times, „[b]ut in late 1975, [Cuban dictator Fidel] Castro sent troops to Angola to help the newly independent nation fend off attacks from South Africa and right-wing guerrillas.“ This effort by Castro, which had little bearing on any major U.S. interests, was apparently an unbearable act of impertinence — at least in Kissinger’s eyes. His reaction, says the Times, was „infuriated“ and „incensed.“
The consequences in Kansas, after all, are a result of fulfilling the great Laffer Curve dream that has Republican presidential hopefuls such as Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and Chris Christie all salivating: dramatic tax cuts, concentrated among those at the top, coupled with the promise that such action will, through trickle-down voodoo, increase tax revenue and boost economic growth. … Despite faith-based forecasts promising bountiful revenue, tax receipts have come in, again and again, hundreds of million dollars below projections.
From Nixon to Rand, Republicans have banked on the unerring support of Southern white men. Here’s how it came to be
The coup that transformed the relationship between British politics and journalism began at a quiet Sunday lunch at Chequers, the official country retreat of the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. She was trailing in the polls, caught in a recession she had inherited, eager for an assured cheerleader at a difficult time. Her guest had an agenda too. He was Rupert Murdoch, eager to secure her help in acquiring control of nearly 40% of the British press.
