US admits economy is in …downturn

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has admitted that the US economy is facing a “sharp decline” at the moment but hoped for a recovery later in the year.

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Beijing Olympics under question

And with all these things going on in China with the Tibet issue getting bigger day after day it was natural that there will come the first to suggest boycotting Beijing Olympic Games. What’s coming next is how strong this voice will become and how the governments are going to deal with this including the [...]

Obama’s US cannot ignore race

So this was it, in the end everything came down to race and gender while Mr. Obama was insuring everybody that it was about ideas and tomorrow! Speaking in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a city seen as the cradle of US democracy, Mr Obama gave a speech that drew on America’s long history of racial inequality – [...]

Today’s Ovi magazine

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Nunobark by Nunobark. Nunobark is a Lisbon-based illustrator, artist, graphic designer… and proud father. He was the founder of several fanzines, maintains the Public Secret Blog. Here is a selection of his work.
Sarkozy: Leave French people alone – Part 3 by Akli Hadid. Like many French personalities, including France’s highest ranked [...]

The end of the apartheid

Today is a day to remember internationally, a very unique day, in 1992, white South Africans have backed an overwhelming mandate for political reforms to end apartheid and create a power-sharing multi-racial government. In a landslide victory for change, the government swept the polls in all four provinces, and all but one of 15 referendum [...]

China premier attacks Dalai Lama

Unfortunately not by throwing at him red book or spiritually! Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has accused the Dalai Lama of masterminding recent violence in Tibet’s main city, Lhasa. Well he is a …mastermind after all! Speaking at the close of parliament, Mr Wen also said that the exiled Tibetan leader’s claim of “cultural genocide” in [...]