2009: AfPak; Yemen added to US bombing list; Chrysler and GM declare bankruptcy and government becomes part owner; unemployment reaches over 10 per cent; $787 billion stimulus package and $1.75 trillion budget deficit; Paul-Grayson amendment to audit Federal Reserve (FR) approved by House Financial Services Committee but stymied by FR chairman as it "would shatter the Fed's independence."
Timeline 2000-2010: Europe
2000 - Vladimir Putin elected president of Russia; Serbian October "revolution" ousting Slobodan Milosevic following 1999 NATO bombing, resulting in creation of Kosovo as first NATO "republic".
2002 - EU expansion with plans for 10 new members in 2004.
2004; Ukraine's Leonid Kuchma targeted by Western democracy-promotion groups; Russian theater hostage-taking by Chechens in October (140 deaths); Turkey elects Islamists; Catholic Church sex scandal media frenzy.
2003 - Ukraine Orange Revolution in December bringing Viktor Yushchenko to power; Russian Jewish oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others arrested/ imprisoned/ exiled; France and Germany refuse to back invasion of Iraq.
2004 - Chechen rebels take 1000 hostages at Beslan, North Ossetia school, resulting in 300 deaths.
2005 - Pope John-Paul II dies and Benedict XVI elected; Blair re-elected to third term, London awarded 2012 Olympics, but 7 July Underground bombing; Paris race riots; Merkel becomes first German woman chancellor, heading a "grand coalition" of CDU and SPD; Georgia Rose Revolution brings Mikheil Saakashvili to power.
2006 - Alexander Litvinenko dies of polonium poisoning as West orchestrates new Cold War; Slobodan Milosevic dies in War Criminal Prison in the Hague after a five year trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the West now deciding which dictators should be held to account (see 2008 Sudan); Danish newspaper publishes cartoons insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
1
1
1
