US media don’t cover war protests

Coordinated anti-war protests in at least 11 American cities this weekend raised anew an interesting question about the nature of news coverage: Are the American media ignoring rallies against the Iraq war because of their low turnout or is the turnout dampened by the lack of news coverage?

 

American Indians want to found their independent republic in the land of present USA :)

Unreal story           

                                                                                                                                                                   

American Indians intend to build their republic in present US. In order to attain their goal they wants to ask help from UN or other powerful country.

 

 Yesterday the president of American Indians Association said that they are going to found their own republic and they call all American Indians around the world to come back native and historical land.

 

 

Putin has been vilified by the West – but he is still a great leader

By JOHN LAUGHLAND September 2007

I had expected to find Vladimir Putin cold, sinister and aggressive.

Waiting to meet the Russian President at the Valdai discussion club, an annual meeting of academics and journalists who specialise in Russia, I recalled the tasteless pictures of him published this summer, showing him bare-chested and wearing a gold chain on a fishing trip to Siberia.

Putin seemed a vain macho-man, more concerned with his physique than his dignity, a powerful and ruthless leader in charge of an increasingly belligerent and heavily armed state.

 

Vladimir Putin’s global warning

From The Sunday Times September 16, 2007

Less than a decade after its humiliating debt default, Russia’s economy is booming as never before. But President Putin is using his country’s newfound wealth to boost the military, stoke nationalism and, increasingly, to confront the West. Is this the beginning of a new cold war?

Report by Brian Moynahan

 

Does Putin Not Have a Point?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

“A soft answer turneth away wrath,” teaches Proverbs 1:15.

Our new secretary of defense, Robert Gates, seems familiar with the verse. For his handling of Saturday’s wintry blast from Vladimir Putin at the Munich security conference was masterful.

“As an old Cold Warrior, one of yesterday’s speeches almost filled me with nostalgia for a less complex time,” said Gates, adding, “Almost.” A former director of the CIA, Gates went on to identify with Putin: “I have, like your second speaker yesterday … a career in the spy business. And I guess old spies have a habit of blunt speaking.

 

Tobacco growers are giving up their profession in Kazakhstan

By Shodiyor Eshaev

           

The number of Kazakhstani tobacco growers have reduced as Phillip Morris Kazakhstan – only consumer of tobacco farmers – insisted its contractors to grade tobacco plant into nine sorts.  

 “The labor of growing tobacco is very hard,”- complained, Ayanbek Dautkulov, director of Kazakhstani Tobacco Growers’ Association. Farmers begin his work from Mart and end in February and they have to give up growing tobacco, as Phillip Morris demanded from us nine sort of tobacco leaf instead of six.

 

Dutch Professor Confirms: Healing Effect Of “Allah”

Phiroz A. Poonawalla

A psychologist from Netherlands, Professor Van der Hoven announced his discovery about the effect of reading the Quran and repeating the word Allah, both on patients and on normal persons.

The Dutch professor confirms his discovery with studies and research applied on many patients over a period of three years. Some of his patients were non-Muslims, others do not speak Arabic and were trained to pronounce the word Allah.

 

Website Project

Audience

Journalism students of Central Asian universities and journalists interested in online journalism and using informational technologies in their activity.

 

Putin’s Moment To Seize

 

By David Ignatius

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin made headlines last weekend when he blasted the Bush administration for its “almost uncontained hyper-use of force” that has created a world where “no one feels safe.” If he had been a Democratic presidential candidate, it would have been a standard stump speech. But coming from a Russian president, his remarks had pundits ruminating about a new Cold War.

 

Listen to Putin

THESE are clearly unprecedented times in international politics. And despite the harsh manner of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at Munich notwithstanding, it did point to most of the reasons responsible for the situation. Except for the highest offices in Washington, there is near unanimous international consensus that the Bush administration’s attempt at employing the neocon ideology has been a marked failure, of colossal proportions, with disastrous economic, political and humanitarian repercussions.