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By Jonathan Power - Jan 15,2015
We have much to be glum about at the onset of 2015; the latest is the killings by ultra Islamists of the cartoonists in Paris.
But we are brainwashed with bad news.
“If it bleeds it leads.”
One plane crash is worth more airtime than news that we are winning the fig
By Jonathan Power - Dec 18,2014
It is John McCain, a former Vietnam warrior and the Republican candidate for president when Barack Obama first won the presidency, who has conducted a long campaign against the US using torture.
Last week, when the US Senate’s study of the torture used during the administr
By Jonathan Power - Dec 11,2014
“If all the world were like Sweden there would be no news to report. The last time that Sweden hit the front page was when its foreign minister, Anna Lindh, was knifed to death by a madman nine years ago on the eve of a referendum on Swedish entry into the eurozone.
By Jonathan Power - Nov 27,2014
Will the real Barack Obama be allowed to stand up?
The New York Times’ columnist and Nobel Prize winner for economics, Paul Krugman, writes in Rolling Stone: “Obama has emerged as one of the most consequential presidents in American history.”
One would not kno
By Jonathan Power - Nov 20,2014
The English language “Moscow News” newspaper does not worry much about censorship.
By Jonathan Power - Nov 13,2014
I was in Moscow just before former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev made his stunning criticism of the West, on Saturday, saying that since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it had engaged in “triumphalism”.
Everyone I talked to said the West set out to humil
By Jonathan Power - Nov 06,2014
President Vladimir Putin is often painted as an ogre in the world’s media.
The seemingly eternal president of Russia has an iron grip on his nation and a foreign policy to match. Yet, a large majority of Russians give him their support.
Is it his early economic success?
By Jonathan Power - Oct 30,2014
A soon-to-be released report of the US Senate criticises the CIA under president George W. Bush over having conducted torture of Al Qaeda suspects.
By Jonathan Power - Oct 23,2014
The Soviet army invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 and withdrew, exhausted and demoralised, 10 years later.
In Moscow, a joke had long circulated: “Why are we still in Afghanistan?”
Answer: “ We are still looking for the people who invited us.”
The sa
By Jonathan Power - Oct 16,2014
Brazil has long lived out its personal fantasy as the archetypal relaxed, tolerant and gregarious country with Copacabana beach, the samba and the carnival.
It is now living out in real time its almost forgotten societal dream, an economic-cum-social revolution.
The retired pre
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