Israel is cleansing Gaza of terrorists. The Jewish State has launched the ground operation after a series of air strikes. It has become obvious by now that Israel intends to bring the operation to a close despite numerous international protests. The prime goal of the operation is to overturn the Hamas movement. In the meantime, the cleansing of the terrorist stronghold is good for everyone

Far from being a political tool used by Moscow to gain points, the entire question of gas supply to Ukraine is purely and simply a consequence of the incapacity of the Ukrainian government to take adequate decisions and honour its commitments. The European Union’s supplies have been cut by Ukraine, not Russia.

After withholding gas supplies illegally and refusing to allow EU observers in to check, Kiev agrees to guarantee Russian gas transit to the European Union in full and also to permit observers to check the points of entry and exit. Moscow’s insistence that supplies to the EU should not be affected has therefore been honouredby Ukraine.

The new year is going to bring major suffering to the US economy and society. On the one hand, the Bank Panic of 2008, started in and by America, will continue to ravage the recessional economy. On the other hand, large swaths of the American demographic, who voted for Obama, are expecting miracles that the US government simply can not provide. As industry after industry lines up for government handouts and large scale money printing to meet those demands escalates, the depressionary bought will, by mid year, turn into a raging inflationary bonfire

Resistance begins in doubt. Then it grows into the adolescence of skepticism and matures into defiance, confrontation and struggle. Resistance is above all the determination to say, no. No! to euphemism and deceit. No! to falsehood and lie. No! to promises of comfort and ease and assurances that ours is the right way of life. Resistance is real life as opposed to virtual life. Resistance is the precise opposite of acceptance of what society offers and the resulting retreat into comfort and ease, into the assurances that your lifestyle is the right one, that your way of life is the right way of life

Now that the annual sales numbers are finally in, it’s clear that 2008 was a horrendous year for nearly every automaker. Annual car sales peaked at about 17 million in 2006. Industry analysts used to think that a one-time dip to 14 million would be a catastrophe. In 2008, total sales fell below that, to about 13 million.

The Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international human rights such as defined in the Geneva Convention, regarding the obligations of the occupying power as for the demands of the laws of war.

Through the Cuban method “Yo si pseudo!“ adapted to Bolivian reality, Bolivia has been declared territory free of illiteracy. The program was put in place three years ago.