On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world lives with a number of barriers that serve to restrain the free movement of people. The wall that divides the West Bank from Israel and preventing the passage of Mexican immigrants to the United States are the best known, but there are others.

12.11.2009
The state of affairs in South America remains alarming. An armed conflict between the two countries is very likely. Two years ago the war was barely prevented through mutual efforts of all countries of the continent. However, disputable issues were not solved. Colombia accuses Venezuela of supporting FARC members, while Venezuela blames Colombia for supporting American plans to overthrow Chavez

10.11.2009
Jasmin Hristov's book is an exploration of the history and evolution of armed paramilitary forces in Colombia, focusing primarily on the past two decades. Her stated intent is to "offer a model of a twenty-first-century state apparatus of coercion under a formally democratic regime by exploring the structure and functions of that apparatus, the conditions that make it a necessity, and its capacity to evolve into new forms" (p. xi).

05.11.2009
It has been exactly a year since the election of the 44^th US President on November 4, 2008. What did the number '4' mean for the world, Russia, the USA, and Barack Obama himself? Obama practically demolished a virtual Berlin Wall between Russia and the USA, like Gorbachev did in his times. We, however, are well aware of what has happened to Gorbachev and the Soviet Union along with its social camp