The Philippines is having an awful time of it at the moment. Torrential rains have caused mudslides across the country, killing at least 200 people, and now a ferry with 74 people on board is feared
Reading the local press, you’ll find lots of news, stories, studies and, above all, interesting quotes that stick in your mind, and as you think about them, they make you want to scream or laugh
DUBLIN, 23 December 2003 — In the current, post-Sept. 11 atmosphere of false alarms and paranoia, of false-flag operations and disinformation, there is the growing danger that the public and
CAIRO, 23 December 2003 — Wasn’t it kind of the British prime minister’s wife Cherie Blair — a busy barrister and mother — to take such a personal interest in the Kingdom’s
LONDON, 23 December 2003 — There’s a logic to these things. Muammar Qaddafi, growing older, and his isolated Libya, growing poorer, were getting nothing worthwhile from the atomic bomb
BELGRADE, 23 December 2003 — A week before early parliamentary elections in Serbia, voters may still be deliberating but Europe and investors are not — they have decided Serbia is unable
