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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 2, 2008
If you have been reading the Chinese media lately, there will be little you don’t know about the recent successful Shenzhou VII mission. China independently conducted a spacewalk and became only the third nation behind …
Also tagged: space, china, hero, us china relations, us power, maryann keady
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 30, 2008
In February 2008, the Brookings Institution of Washington, DC, hosted an exercise in moral abstraction with the title "The US-Pakistan Strategic Relationship". The panel at this event consisted largely of old friends …
Also tagged: afghanistan, pakistan, featured, us foreign policy, tariq ali, benazir bhutto, asif ali zardari
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 28, 2008
The streets of Islamabad’s "Blue Area" are typically wide, straight boulevards lined with greenery and the mansions of diplomats and politicians. In one such street is a simple but large house rendered in plain white …
Also tagged: pakistan, featured, mustafa qadri, women in pakistan, acid survivors foundation, saraiki belt, northwestern frontier
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 23, 2008
After nine years as South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki leaves office prematurely, humiliated and rejected by the party to which he dedicated half a century of his life. read more
Also tagged: aids, south africa, featured, anc, thabo mbeki, antiretrovirals, najad abdullahi, hiv politics
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 22, 2008
In a recent article in newmatilda.com, titled What’s So New About Rudd’s Pacific Policy?, Maureen Penjueli and Wesley Morgan pose the question: Does the Rudd Government have the will to address the development needs of …
Also tagged: featured, pacific, free trade, pacific islands, australian politics, duncan kerr
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 21, 2008
There was an unmistakable message amid the rubble of the Marriott bombing in Islamabad: military operations in Pakistan’s tribal agency regions cannot ensure security for the country, even in the heart of its capital …
Also tagged: afghanistan, nato, pakistan, taliban, al qaeda, hero, asif ali zardari, mustafa qadri
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 18, 2008
Last week Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith had a conversation with Jim Middleton on the Australia Network’s Newshour program. Part of that conversation, held on 12 September 2008, went like this: JM …
Also tagged: afghanistan, pakistan, featured, taliban, al qaeda, defence, irfan yusuf
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 15, 2008
Last week US President George W Bush announced a "reorientation" of US forces in the Middle East with an emphasis on the war in Afghanistan. The change in focus has already been called an "Afghan surge", and …
Also tagged: afghanistan, pakistan, war on terror, blogwatch
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 11, 2008
When Georgia and Russia went to war briefly last month, there was initial outrage that anyone would try to use the Olympics as a diversion while they attacked and killed thousands of civilians. Meanwhile, just to our …
Also tagged: featured, philippines, mindanao, gloria arroyo, philip alston, armed forces of the philippines, peter sales
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 9, 2008
Share traders are having second thoughts about the Fannie and Freddie party. Wall Street initially surged after the US Federal Reserve “rescued” the mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But those early gains …
Also tagged: economy, featured, oil, mortgage, us economy, freddie mac, fannie mae, credit crunch, alan thornhill