The Economist
Think of the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at 89. She was the last person who knew the language of the Eyak people as a mother-tongue. Or imagine Ned Mandrell, who died in 1974-he was the last native speaker of Manx, similar to Irish [...]

From Pravda. Ru
In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about this [...]

What are we doing in Afghanistan? A superb new history shows how successive invaders have tried, and failed, to bring order to the country through force
By John Sweeney*
Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan.
By David Loyn. Hutchinson
The Duke of Wellington was a cantankerous reactionary but he knew a thing or [...]

The 2008 crash has been blamed on cheap money, Asian savings and greedy bankers. For many people, deregulation is the prime suspect.
The Economist
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The autumn of 2008 marks the end of an era. After a generation of standing ever further back from the business of finance, governments have been forced to step in to [...]

By Robert Fisk
Thucydides’ account of the Spartan war contains a dark and chilling relevance: Let us now praise famous men. And after yet another US presidential candidates’ debate of awesome sterility – not to mention their shameless refusal to tackle the real, bloody issues that confront America – I’m referring principally to one of [...]

By Hanna Jaeckel
I am sorry not to have gotten to this great article until this morning Anwaar. I have been teaching myself “international economics”, and it was a crash course of a 3-weeks duration. International Finance is nothing by comparison.
God I feel jaded and cynical!! If the premises for your article were correct, then I would [...]

By *Sara Hall
The murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on 7 October 2006 has been remembered all over the world during the last week. Amnesty International believes that Politkovskaya was killed because of her work as a journalist. The trial of three men accused of her murder is set to start on 15 October [...]