Is President Barack Obama s administration stumbling toward the abyss?

NEW YORK It is now almost a year since the world economy teetered on the edge of calamity.

It was not until 1891 that the American astronomer, Seth Carlo Chandler, made measurements showing that there was a periodic motion of 14 months in the Earth s wobble and suggesting that this was the polhode motion.

Democratic Latin America limps sideways because it can t run ahead.

The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another roughly one a month this year alone.

SÃO PAULO Less than a decade ago, Brazil s economy faltered at the first sign of instability in international financial markets.

The lack of far sighted decision making on the part of central bankers meant that economic policy lurched from stop to go to accelerate to slow down.

But EU member states, facing their own fiscal constraints, have shown no willingness to consider additional bilateral aid. So Ukraine continues to teeter on the edge of the abyss.

And Dr. Robicsek reeled back in his chair, but quickly gathered his wits, leaned forward and said, Well, that is true, but I'll bet you went to the movie with a grandchild. Well, yes, I did, conceded Mr. Milliken.

Meanwhile, he inherits an America that is no longer an undisputed hegemony, and that, together with its allies, is immersed in the most severe economic crisis since 1929.

This year, as the American led effort to mediate a Middle East peace settlement began to falter, Turkey took up the job of mediator in both the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the conflict between Syria and Israel.

In the last three or so years the space for independent media in the country has shrunk markedly, with pro opposition papers and media delving into the conflict in the Kurdish speaking east teetering on the brink of extinction.

As a result of Germany s decision, its annual carbon emissions are now expected to rise by as much as 10 at a time when European Union emissions are rising as the continent shakes off the effects of the financial crisis.

In a universe where humans have spread out and colonized planets in the Solar System, an event known as the Collapse saw the mysterious dissolution of these colonies, the end of the Golden Age, and mankind teetering on the brink of extinction.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s corruption tainted government tottering on the brink of collapse, there has been no official explanation of how India was caught napping in a militarily critical area where, in the recent past, China had made repeated attempts to encroach on Indian land.

TEL AVIV It is remarkable that a stern warning about the scale of the threat posed to the United States by Syria s civil war has gone practically unnoticed. Is President Barack Obama s administration stumbling toward the abyss?

SÃO PAULO Less than a decade ago, Brazil s economy faltered at the first sign of instability in international financial markets. Today, by contrast, the country seems immune from global market turbulence or so Brazilian officials believe.

While the Group of Eight committed itself to cancelling all debts of eligible heavily indebted poor countries, countries that are euphemistically described as middle income countries teeter on the brink of disaster as they struggle with unsustainable debts.

NEW DELHI With the world s most developed economies reeling under the incubus of what is already being called the Great Recession, India at the beginning of the year took stock and issued a revised estimate for GDP growth in the 2008 2009 fiscal year. Its projection came out at a healthy 7.1 .

A combination of lunar gravity, solar gravity, and the flattening of the Earth at its poles causes a precession motion of the orbital plane of any geostationary object, with an orbital period of about 53 years and an initial inclination gradient of about 0.85 degrees per year, achieving a maximum inclination of 15 degrees after 26.5 years.

NEW DELHI With the world s most developed economies reeling under the incubus of what is already being called the Great Recession, India at the beginning of the year took stock and issued a revised estimate for GDP growth in the 2008 2009 fiscal year. Its projection came out at a healthy 7.1 .

The truth about AIPAC that it is influential, but far from invulnerable has recently been revealed, both to the public and to the group itself. Having been pushed by Netanyahu into an unwinnable fight against US President Barack Obama s administration over its nuclear deal with Iran, AIPAC is now crumbling under the weight of its own hubris.