Big questions

These days officials of different countries are meeting in Moscow to open or perhaps to settle the disputes on the ownership of the mineral wealth in the Artic, mainly the oil that lies under the ocean, amounting to a quarter of existing reserves on the planet.  Three years ago, the Russians planted their flag on the Artic, an age-old gesture that is a declaration unto itself.  The other Northern countries, namely Canada, Norway, the U.S., did not take this as a gesture of appeasement and dialogue. The Artic rush had begun, and with the cracking ice-cap, a new urgency soon flared among the would-be claimants.  Now is the time for exploration and exploitation.  The question is who will get there first, the unacceptable threat is who will be left out?   Can the first be the subject of discussion, can the second be averted by conciliation?  Will the Artic oil become a cause of strife, perhaps even war?  Or will reason overcome the consuming greed for oil and allow a fair power-sharing for the good of humanity?  Big questions, talking about oil...

News from Iran

The Bbc (www. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia) reports on the Afghan refugees executed in Iran. 4 to 5 thousand have been arrested and hundreds are awaiting execution.
Roxane Saberi, in an article in the Washington Post, yesterday 12 May, reports that the Iranian regime 5 Kurdish political activists, after summary trials and torture.
Kurds, Afghans, who cares?

Obama and Iran

Does President Obama have the money to face yet another military showdown, this time with nuclearized Iran?

President Chavez at the Venice festival

Is Mr. Oliver Stone convinced of doing the world a favor by making a star of President Chavez at the Venice Festival?

Today's question

True, elections are not the central moment in the democratic process, but they are a very important one. How can President Obama say that Mr. Ahmadinedjad is the president "elected by the Iranian people", after the questionable results of the June 12 elections and the bloody events that followed? There are right choices and wrong choices. Did President Obama make the right choice in this case?

today's question

Does Mr. Ahmadinedjad know how the Terror ended in the French Revolution?
Does he really think he has anything to gain by putting his opponents on trial, after having jailed and tortured them. Does he think that executing them will make his future rosier? Big question today.

today's question

Where does legitimacy lie in Iran: does it belong to the people who suffered and died for their freedom in the past month or to Mr.Ahmadinedjad who won a questionable election on June 12? -