Ethiopian troops have reportedly entered neighboring Somalia in search of al-Shabaab fighters only weeks after Kenyan troops entered Somalia under a similar pretense. The Ethiopian government would neither confirm nor deny the troop movements according to the report from Al Jazeera although someone speaking on the condition of anonymity said that the troops could have […]
Read MoreWhen discussing Iran, little time is spent on the domestic population and its concerns. Outside of the unrest following the elections in Iran, the outside has never really shone the light on the Iranian public. Like all nations, Iran most surely must have its problems, its hopes, dreams and fears. It must also have its […]
Read MoreThe euro zone financial crisis has seen its share of historical events but none more telling than the recent ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian Prime Minister’s chair. With the removal of Berlusconi and the rise of a government of technocrats determined to right Italy’s financial ship of state, yet another European nation’s leadership […]
Read MoreAndrei Zaostrovtsev asks this very pointed question in his article for OpenDemocracy.net, “Privatisation, but No Private Property.” After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many of the state-owned industries were reorganized and sold off to investors by the state, many of these investors becoming very rich off of their purchase of Soviet capital […]
Read MoreSyria’s unrest continues and now Russia has involved itself in the preservation of the al-Assad regime by announcing it is moving warships into Syrian territorial waters to prevent any intervention in Syria’s domestic situation by foreign powers like NATO or Turkey. During the overthrow of Qaddafi, NATO warships and planes provided great assistance to the […]
Read More[Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘The Kingsroad’] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens with the former denizens of Winterfell arriving in their new home, the appropriately named King’s Landing. The sets on this show are as impressive or more so than those HBO showed off in its series Rome. […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 4 – ‘ Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things’ Review and Synopsis
[Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 3 – ‘Lord Snow’ Review and Synopsis] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens with a dream sequence starring Bran. We know it is a dream sequence because he is walking. He cruelly awakes to the world, still in bed crippled from his fall. He is summoned by Robb who sends […]
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