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Vytautas Landsbergis: On tragedies

Vytautas Landsbergis: On tragedies

Excellencies, distinguished priests of One God, colleagues parliamentarians, ladies and gentlemen!
Let me share with you some words on tragedies in plural, not only that unique we are commemorating.
Haiti disaster caused by the earthquake is an enormous and terrible human tragedy, which does continue until now.
The tsunami, which passed over Aceha and other Indonesian areas, caused [...]

A Terrorist Trial in New York City

A Terrorist Trial in New York City

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Nov. 13 that the U.S. Justice Department had decided to try five suspected terrorists currently being held at Guantanamo Bay in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, located in lower Manhattan.
The five suspects — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarek bin Attash, Ramzi [...]

Best deals with Perrys on cars or vans

Best deals with Perrys on cars or vans

Get the best deals with Perrys on new cars, used cars and vans. According your criteria you can search and find the car or the van you desire. Perrys started trading back in 1908 and represents today a long list of leading motor brands like Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Alf Romeo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Seat, [...]

Russia, Ahmadinejad and Iran Reconsidered

Russia, Ahmadinejad and Iran Reconsidered

At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave his first sermon since Iran’s disputed presidential election and the subsequent demonstrations. The crowd listening to Rafsanjani inside the mosque was filled with Ahmadinejad supporters who chanted, among other things, “Death to America” and “Death [...]

The North Korean Nuclear Test and Geopolitical Reality

The North Korean Nuclear Test and Geopolitical Reality

North Korea tested a nuclear device for the second time in two and a half years May 25. Although North Korea’s nuclear weapons program continues to be a work in progress, the event is inherently significant. North Korea has carried out the only two nuclear detonations the world has seen in the 21st century. (The [...]

An Israeli Prime Minister Comes to Washington Again

An Israeli Prime Minister Comes to Washington Again

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Washington for his first official visit with U.S. President Barack Obama. A range of issues — including the future of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Israeli-Syrian talks and Iran policy — are on the table. This is one of an endless series of meetings between U.S. presidents and Israeli prime ministers over the [...]

Global Peace Tour 2009 – Finland

Global Peace Tour 2009 – Finland

On 29th April, Finland could contribute to the Global Peace Tour 2009 successfully. In the afternoon the UPF (Universal Peace Federation) hosted a conference at the New Parliament building of Parliament of Finland on the topic of “Youth in Multicultural society”, and in the evening the main event took place in the main Parliament House [...]

The Geopolitics of Pandemics

The Geopolitics of Pandemics

Word began to flow out of Mexico the weekend before last of well over 150 deaths suspected to have been caused by a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu. Scientists who examined the flu announced that this was a new strain of Influenza A (H1N1) derived partly from swine flu, partly [...]

V. Landsbergis: That arrogant ignorance is typical for Russian political style

V. Landsbergis: That arrogant ignorance is typical for Russian political style

I want to make several remarks to be realized as questions to everybody and any government, not only to “Gazprom” as a part of Russian Government and its foreign policies.
We have received lot of explanations and responses – more than recent picturesque 10 – from an interested business group “Nord Stream”, but no response to [...]

Disruption vs. Prosecution and the Manchester Plot

Disruption vs. Prosecution and the Manchester Plot

On April 8, British authorities mounted a series of raids in Merseyside, Manchester and Lancashire that resulted in the arrest of 12 men suspected of being involved in a plot to conduct attacks over the Easter holiday weekend.
In a press conference the following day, Prime Minister Gordon Brown noted that the men arrested [...]

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