'Obama is pushing US economy downhill'
Published: 12 March, 2009, 17:36
Obama's policy is pushing the US economy downhill, says vice president of the conservative Business & Media Institute Dan Gainor.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed his first government spending bill, worth $410 billion, to fund most government operations through to September 30.
The bill is filled with pet projects, so called ‘earmarks’, a practice Obama had promised to get rid of. The President himself called the document 'imperfect', but necessary.
12.03.2009, 12:37
A small war that mattered – 40 years since the Damansky Island tragedyTechnically, the Damansky conflict was a local two-episode frontier engagement between Chinese and Soviet soldiers on March 2 and March 15, 1969. Statistically, it was, for the lack of a better term, small. |
12.03.2009, 18:38
Gabala radar for both Russia and US?Russia intends to prolong its rent of the Gabala early warning anti-ballistic missile radar in Azerbaijan, and does not exclude US participation in maintaining the facility, said Russian FM Sergey Lavrov. |
