The Middle East Crack Up

The collapse of US companies like Enron and Worldcom have added fuel to the debate in Europe .

Since Iraq, it distrusts military interventions, which run into quicksands.

Between 1,490 and 1,635 people died in the sinking of the Titanic.

Many of the authoritarian regimes now under threat of collapse cultivated the support of minorities.

Thieriot's paternal grandparents, Ferdinand and Frances Thieriot, died in the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in 1956.

It has not collapsed 150 years later and we need to continue the fight to defend the well being of working people.

The Gulf crisis and the oil price rise, coupled with the collapse of Comecon, is literally stifling them.

Yanukovych panders to xenophobes and anti Semites, and his strongest appeal is to the core of angry diehards who detest the collapse of Soviet power.

The second is the sinking of the South Pacific island nation Tuvalu due to the rise of sea levels resulting from global warming.

The downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine last July seemed to mark the beginning of the end of Russia s reputation, such as it is, as a civilized country.

It introduces, in Directives and Regulations, a necessary note of caution.

Equally disturbing has been the continuing reluctance of international leaders to provide new financial commitments to Ukraine, despite growing pressure on its foreign currency reserves and the specter of a full blown financial meltdown.

Indeed, the West has sought to animate that specter in its ongoing confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But, though Russia s economy is undoubtedly in trouble, a full blown collapse is unlikely.

The result has been an unmitigated catastrophe the destruction of Iraq as a functioning society in an ongoing civil war, fueled by outside powers, that has caused economic ruin and collapsing living standards.

Add to that ever worsening corruption and a severe liquidity freeze, and a financial meltdown, accompanied by an 8 10 decline in output, appears likely.

The EU acted quickly in the aftermath of the drowning of more than 1,000 migrants in a particularly horrific episode in April, tripling the budget of its much maligned naval surveillance operations and expanding their operational area to match Italy s discontinued Mare Nostrum operation.

Though market signals are not yet very clear, this year s more successful investors were those who sold their fossil fuel holdings, thereby avoiding the oil price crash.

150 years ago the British Parliament was debating whether there should be a restriction on the employment of children under the age of 10 in British factories and they were told by certain manufacturers that if this was brought in the British economy would collapse.

After the empire s collapse in 1918, the rise of Arab nationalism placed Arabic language and culture at the center of political identity, thereby disenfranchising many non Arab ethnic groups, including Kurds, Jews, and Syriacs.

After the fall of a foreign tourist in the down fall of Glorieta Sanchez Taboada, the tourist sector of Mazatlán asked the authorities to pay attention to the zones and sites that are in a bad state and that offer a bad image of the port.

at global level, due to the high mobility of productive and financial capital and the doubling in the number of workers participating in the economy following the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the entry of other countries, notably China and India on to the international scene

In this connection I will recall that, last year, in this very Chamber before a Parliament that was asking for an increase of ECU 100 million for aid for the countries of the East, I had occasion to say 'Ladies and gentlemen, how can you go beyond the law ?', seeing that the financial perspective made no provision for that appropriation.

In 2010, the South Korean public was sharply critical of the military s failure to retaliate immediately following the North s sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship carrying more than 100 personnel, and its shelling of Yeonpyeong Island later that year.

It comes after a 14 month crisis triggered by the bursting of a housing bubble which first led to the collapse of risky mortgages (subprime) before spreading to other forms of more widespread credit titles (PCAA) and leading to a freeze of liquidity and the stampede of banks and financial institutions.

An affirmation that only a diplomatic solution can finally settle forgive me, I find the adverb 'finally' a bit rich that only a diplomatic solution can finally settle the crisis is open to interpretation as an expression of Europe's will or lack of will, as a statement that Europe is not prepared to consider military intervention under any circumstances and is giving official sanction to a drawn out waiting game.

But naturally we will also consider the interests of the former GDR's trade partners, which we will find all the easier because in the case of purely trade agreements it is not the Federal Republic but the EC that is the legal successor of the GDR because of its exclusive competence in the field of trade.

On the other hand, and we have to take due warning here, if the blockade failed to work, if the international community's cohesion slackened, if governments allowed their resolve to weaken as public opinion grew weary and we know it is going to be a long haul or if they chose to go their own way to promote narrower interests, in short if Baghdad won the war of nerves, this historic opportunity would be lost and for a very long time.