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Ukraine's election-preparing for the next drama - [politics]

Sep 27th 2007 | KIEV
From The Economist print edition

The real test for Ukraine's warring parties will come after this weekend's electionTHE stage on Independence Square is set, the props are out, the players are ready for the general election on September 30th. There are blue tents for the Party of the Regions, led by the prime mi...

Israel- the land of Zion - [politics]

Sep 27th 2007 | JERUSALEM
From The Economist print edition

How the Jewish National Fund may have to change
WHEN the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was set up a century ago, its mission was to buy land in Palestine for settling Jews there, with the coins that diaspora Jews the world over put into the fund...

Black leadership in America-Race, justice and Jena - [politics]

Sep 27th 2007 | JENA, LOUISIANA
From The Economist print edition

An overzealous prosecution highlights America's changing racial politicsA SIGN outside Jena describes it as “a nice place to call home”. But this town in Louisiana is small, poor and, for many, a new symbol of old-style American racism. On September 20th s...

Ukraine-A second bite of the orange - [politics]

Oct 1st 2007 | KIEV
From Economist.com

Yulia Tymoshenko’s block looks set for victory in Ukraines parliamentary electionONE consistent feature of Ukraine’s fluid politics is its ability to defy predictions. The biggest surprise of the parliamentary elections on Sunday September 30th was the strong support for Yulia Tymoshenko, a...

Pakistan's political crisis-Good grief, Sharif - [politics]

Aug 24th 2007 | DELHI
From Economist.com

An emboldened Supreme Court piles another problem on to Pervez Musharraf’s plate WITH constrictor-like certainty, the democratic forces that General Pervez Musharraf has provoked to ire, are starting to throttle him. On Thursday August 23rd the Supreme Court of Pakistan decreed t...

Elections in Japan-Abe agonises - [politics]

Jul 27th 2007 | TOKYO
From Economist.com

Japan's ruling party is set for a drubbingTHE elections on Sunday July 29th for half of the seats in the upper house of the Diet (parliament) in theory have only an indirect impact on who governs Japan. In practice they are crucial test, and not just for the ruling coalition of the Liberal De...

Presidential candidates-Hitting the buffers - [politics]

Jul 12th 2007 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition

John McCain's campaign nears its end JOHN McCAIN returned from Iraq on July 6th to face an impending bloodbath of his own. His two top campaign aides, Terry Nelson and John Weaver, resigned abruptly; his chief of staff, Mark Salter, removed himself to the sidelines. Other senior aides...

Relations with Russia-A chill from the east - [politics]

Jul 17th 2007
From Economist.com

But talk of a “new cold war” is overblown“THE Russian government,” David Miliband, Britain’s new, young foreign secretary, told Parliament on Monday July 16th, “has failed to register either how seriously we treat this case or the seriousness of the issues involved, despite lobbying at the hi...

French political scandals-The law above - [politics]

Jul 12th 2007 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition

Both Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin face legal scrutinyIS THE judicial trail closing in on France's former president, Jacques Chirac? The question arose this week after the investigation into a smear campaign known as the “Clearstream affair” took ...

The Alberto Gonzales affair-Under fire - [politics]

Apr 20th 2007 | NEW YORK
From Economist.com

The Senate gives Alberto Gonzales, America’s attorney-general, a grillingMANIPULATIVE or clueless? Alberto Gonzales, America’s top legal officer, had to hold his hand up to one of these failings when he testified before the Senate judiciary committee on Thursday April 19th. He chos...

Asia.view-A wrong turn in Tokyo - [politics]

Mar 21st 2007
From Economist.com

Military brothels tarnish Japanese diplomacyA MERE six months into his term as Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe has shredded his international reputation by charging into a thicket of wartime history. The trouble began when Mr Abe was asked to respond to the views of a group of revisionist members of ...

Colombia-The perils of “parapolitics” - [politics]

Mar 22nd 2007 | BOGOTÁ AND MARÍA LA BAJA
From The Economist print edition

After four years in which he transformed his country, Álvaro Uribe is running into problems. Some of them are symptoms of success 

Myanmar's pipeline politics - [politics]

Mar 23rd 2007
From the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire

China is the probable recipient of a big supply of natural gas
The government of Myanmar has reportedly decided to pipe gas from its prolific offshore natural-gas fields to China. The news has particularly disappointed India and South Korea, both of which are highly depen...

The Chirac legacy-It all went wrong - [politics]

Mar 15th 2007 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition

After 12 years of unkept promises, President Jacques Chirac leaves a confused France longing for someone completely different

Politics this week - [politics]

Mar 15th 2007
From The Economist print edition

The Pentagon released an edited transcript of a closed-doors military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confirmed that he had masterminded the September 11th 2001 attacks. He also claimed involvement in a string of other terrorist acts and plots, such as the 1993 car bombing at New York'...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation - [politics]

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a dat...

Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the U.S. Ranger Monument on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day - [politics]

*This was an emotional day.

Ronald Reagan: The Evil Empire - [politics]

Moderator: Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of the United States, Ronald Reag...

Spiro Theodore Agnew: Television News Coverage - [politics]

I think it's obvious from the cameras here that I didn't come to discuss the ban on cyclamates or DDT. I have a subject which I think if of great importance to the American people. Tonight I...

Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence - [politics]

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organi...

Mario Cuomo: "A Tale of Two Cities" - [politics]

On behalf of the Empire State and the family of New York, I thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. Please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the tem...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights - [politics]

Mr. President, fellow delegates:

The long and meticulous study and debate of which this Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the ...

Harry S. Truman: "The Truman Doctrine" - [politics]

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Congress of the United States:

The gravity of the situation which confronts the world t...

Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate - [politics]

Thank you. Thank you, very much.

McCarthy-Welch Exchange: "Have You No Sense of Decency" - [politics]

McCarthy: (Mr. Chairman) ...in view...

Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Atoms for Peace" - [politics]

Madam President and Members of the General Assembly:

John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address - [politics]

Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens:

We observe today not a victory of p...

Ronald Reagan: The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address - [politics]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and re...

Lyndon Baines Johnson: "The Great Society" - [politics]

President Hatcher, Governor Romney, Senators McNamara and Hart, Congressmen Meader and Staebler, and other members of the fine Michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow America...

Richard M. Nixon: "The Great Silent Majority" - [politics]

Good Evening, my fellow Americans.

Tonight I w...