Posted by Benjamin Cunningham on October 20, 2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend the NATO summit Nov. 19-20 in Lisbon. “I will go to the Russia-NATO summit,” he said at an Oct. 19 press conference. “This will further the work for necessary compromises and developing a dialogue between the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic alliance as a whole.” U.S. President Barack [...]
Posted by Benjamin Cunningham on October 13, 2010
It was hard to notice, but a former United States’ plan for missile defense in Europe is becoming a NATO plan. And the project is receiving endorsement at the highest levels… NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (with the likely help of a team of public relations experts) penned a opinion piece in today’s International [...]
Posted by Benjamin Cunningham on October 3, 2010
When was the last time you heard a European leader speak about Bosnia-Herzogovina? Well, today, the state that was created in 1995 on Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio held elections at a time that is as close to becoming failed-state as it has been since the brutal wars of the early 1990s. The [...]
Posted by Benjamin Cunningham on September 19, 2010
At least 10 people died Saturday and hundreds of polling stations never opened during voting for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, according to The New York Times. The vote came a year after the highly flawed reelection of President Hamid Karzai, and people were choosing among more than 2,500 candidates to fill 249 seats in [...]