Al-Ahram Weekly Online   29 September - 5 October 2011
Issue No. 1066
International
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Greek gambit
BRICS drive the global economy, and the wealthiest nations have a vested interest in impoverishing the poor, postulates Gamal Nkrumah
Turkey redraws Sykes-Picot
A new Bermuda Triangle has been spotted, but this one is in the eastern Mediterranean -- between Turkey, Cyprus and Israel, observes Eric Walberg
Premier musical chairs
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's nomination of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as Russia's pretender to the throne and Putin's promise to keep his friend as premier was hardly a surprise. All along, it was clear, except to a few starry-eyed liberals, that the buck stopped not with Medvedev but Putin...

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