Tuesday, April 29 08

Intergenerational political movements that turn over into violence typically produce their own offspring. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon names Hezbollah's military presence as the challenge to Lebanon's Presidential standoff. Confrontational rhetoric against Iran ramped up by US military and administration. (1,2). The impulse to trade is clearing the way for Russia/Serbia-EU co-operation. Is a two-state partition of Iraq inevitable (Part 1)? Taliban presence said to be expanding geographically and sociologically into the heart of Afghanistan. Legitimacy and authority parting ways temporarily in Zimbabwe.