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Attacking social injustice anywhere
By Ardain Isma CSMS Magazine I’m sending a big “thanks” to all the readers who commented on some of the recent articles I wrote this week. Yes, in the logic of maintaining one’s privilege, the weak and the most vulnerable always stand in the most...
Hugo Chavez dies at 58
CSMS Magazine Staff Writers Hugo Chavez, the legendary Latin American leader revered by millions around the world for his unbreakable position against US hegemonic attitudes and his steadfast support for the disenfranchised, noticeably in his native Venezuela...
China’s nouveaux riches flex their muscles
CSMS Magazine Staff Writers This week China emerged as the world’s No. 2 economy, second only to the United States. And, that’s not all. China is within striking distance of surpassing the United States and bypassing Japan which has held the number...
Haiti: Six months later
CSMS Magazine Staff Writers Six months after the apocalyptic earthquake, Haiti remains a huge toxic pile with millions of its inhabitants roaming about with no permanent place to go, living nonchalantly in a no-man’s land. It’s hard to imagine that...
Russia lays out its plan as the RIC fails apart
CSMS Magazine Staff writers News analysis Earlier this month, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev laid out his grand plan to move Russia’s economy into what many watchers are calling “the modern age” with the aim of overcoming the aging Soviet...
The People’s Republic of China turns 60
CSMS Magazine Staff writers This week, the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 60th birthday with lavish parties sweeping the country—another sweet occasion for the PRC to flex its financial and military muscles. To mark this historic milestone,...
China’s nouveaux riches in the hunt for real estate deals in America
By Ardain Isma CSMS Magazine Staff Writer With more than a trillion-dollar investment in the United States, China’s new capitalists are flexing their financial muscles, opening a new front in America heartland, going after sweet-fire sale deals in what...
Russia-Belarus pact: a move to strengthen their strategic deterrence
By Ardain Isma CSMS Magazine Staff Writer In the face of inevitable NATO expansion right at its doorstep, the Kremlin leadership has been hard at work to render ineffective US missile shield in both Poland and in the Czech Republic. For some time, Russia...
Russia’s new era?
By Ardain IsmaCSMS Magazine Staff WriterIt looked as if a change of the guard took place in Moscow’s Red Square this morning as Russia inaugurated Dmitry Medvedev—its third elected president since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The entire hierarchy...