by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Two weeks ago Friday, David Brooks – upon learning that the U.S. unemployment rate had fallen to 7.7% in February with over 200,000 new jobs added – told Judy Woodward on the Newshour that if one combined the good jobs news with the bad...
by John C. Dyer | Mar 16, 2013 | Monitor
By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent I have vivid memories of the night of 13 December 1984. On 13 December 1984 Beyond War and the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio jointly presented “Spacebridge." I was there. Spacebridge A crisp clear...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 12, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Throughout the Gorbachev years and before, the Soviet Union’s five Central Asian Republics (otherwise known as the -stans) were the strongest supporters of the Soviet Union. When the collapse came, they were also the least prepared for...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 4, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Maybe there is a silver lining to the latest Washington impasse between the President and Congressional Republicans. The sequester – which began this weekend – hasn’t yet caused the financial markets to behave like Pogo but such mindless...
by John C. Dyer | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent A press conference the morning of 7 Jan 2013 began a week of headlines good, bad and ugly for the Coalition. The relaunch of the good ship lollypop David Cameron and that other fellow held a press conference 7 Jan 2013. They...
