Russia s Pipeline to Empire

Nobody will expect Chancellor Schröder to turn Germany into another Britain.

The alternative jihadist anarchy that would turn Gaza into a Palestinian Somalia is simply too unbearable to contemplate.

Well, what the XML is going to do is it's going to turn those pages into Lego blocks.

Scientists have pointed out that a rise in temperature of 2º Celsius above pre industrial levels will put the Earth in dangerous, uncharted territory.

But will American resources help to strengthen Pax Africana , or will American power simply turn it into a handmaiden of Pax Americana ?

China s water appropriations from the Illy River threaten to turn Kazakhstan s Lake Balkhash into another Aral Sea, which has shrunk to less than half its original size.

The report also revealed the improbability of another Gore scenario that global warming could make the Gulf Stream shut down, turning Europe into a new Siberia.

Moreover, there is an acute risk that the power vacuum created in Iraq will fuse the Israeli Arab conflict, Iraq, and Afghanistan into one regional mega crisis.

Speck warns that many of these inmates are suspects awaiting trial, whose detention is likely to turn them into hardened criminals, without marketable skills, upon their release.

Lastly, conservatives have trotted out the old moral hazard story in order to argue that a bailout would turn American manufacturing into a permanent beggar of government funds.

The chant became so tedious that inevitably, the class clown would ask if the incantation would end up turning us all into asthmatics, as Che was.

However, if the policy slips into more coercive measures such as carbon tariffs and the like, the result is likely to convert climate change into an energy security struggle.

The tensions between Costa Rica and Nicaragua arise against the backdrop of a planned inter oceanic canal to be built by Hong Kong company HKND Group, converting the San Juan River into a broad commercial waterway.

At that point, China will have a better chance of improving its legal institutions, increasing political accountability, strengthening protection of private property rights, and making the government genuinely in Mao s words serve the people.

Unlike its neighbor to the south (prior to Argentina's crisis), Brazil has a flexible exchange rate system its currency is not overvalued if anything, it is undervalued. With strong exports, it should have no problem meeting its debt obligations, so long as interest rates do not soar to levels that turn a problem into a self fulfilling prophecy.

With strong exports, it should have no problem meeting its debt obligations, so long as interest rates do not soar to levels that turn a problem into a self fulfilling prophecy.

To restore competitiveness and growth in these countries, the euro needs to fall towards parity with the US dollar. And, while the risk of a disorderly Greek collapse is now receding, it will re emerge this year as political instability, civil unrest, and more fiscal austerity turn the Greek recession into a depression.

And, while the risk of a disorderly Greek collapse is now receding, it will re emerge this year as political instability, civil unrest, and more fiscal austerity turn the Greek recession into a depression.

This new set of laws would provide still further legal grounds for future crackdowns and political prosecution, since any overseas connection to organizations that are not registered in China could mark an organisation or person as out as a criminal.

The traumatic experience of the Lebanon war in 2006 has made Israel s leadership wary of yet another asymmetric war where a clear cut victory can never be claimed, and where the arithmetic of blood is always bound to turn the casualties of the superior force, Israel, into a domestic crisis.