Here's a quick look at how the press in the Middle East — arguably the region likely to be most affected by yesterday's U.S. election — interpreted the news that Barrack Obama is on his way to the White House:
“No declaration of support and no promising statements can diminish the fear many...
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The first step toward understanding what went wrong in the 2008 election, beyond the voter fraud and the media's barrage of propaganda, is to address what the GOP should be and what it wasn't.
The Democrats ran the 2008 election on personality and biography, which they could not have done if the ...
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John Liebhardt
· 11:03 pm
· Australia · South Africa · United Kingdom
How influential was the web in this year's presidential election? Many onlookers and supporters of Barack Obama claim the President-Elect's mastery of video, audio and blogs helped him win the vote. A few international bloggers debate the role social media played in Obama's victory.
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Shortly after she arrived in Alaska, Governor Sarah Palin gave an interview to an Alaska radio talk show in which she explained some of the internal problems of the McCain campaign and her own frustrations.
In the interview she made clear that she agreed with the criticism aired by some that she sho...
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South Park aired a tremendous satire of election day and especially of the partisan reaction to Barack Obama’s victory and John McCain’s defeat. They perfectly satirize the reaction of McCain supporters and Obama supporters to Obama’s victory perfectly with Obama supporters chantin...
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In the wake of Obama's victory, KA Dilday begins to digest an unprecedented result. Catch up with the earlier segments of her conversation wtih Anthony Barnett: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.
Dear Anthony:
From the moment the news was announced at about 4 am in London, and
I heard ...
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John Liebhardt
· 2:54 pm
· Australia · Canada · Germany · New Zealand · Sweden · United Kingdom
Those of the left, right, center, communist or socialist blocks all agree about one thing: The failure of the mainstream media in its coverage of the road to the White House. Is this merely post-election griping? It can't all be. What issues afflict the mainstream media?
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Simon Maghakyan
· 1:43 pm
· Australia · Bolivia · Canada · New Zealand
African-American politician Barack Obama’s White House victory is seen as their own triumph by many in the world. But what does the marginalized and invisible world – the Fourth World – think of America’s first multicultural president? Indigenous peoples offer watchful hope for change; many adopt the spirit of “Yes we can.”
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With the election results now signed, sealed and delivered, now comes the finger pointing from the losing side and not surprisingly McCain's crooked old finger is pointing at Sarah Palin.
Instead of doing what they should have done during the campaign, now the McCain camp and Republicans throw Pal...
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In the weeks and especially days before the presidential election, many observers expressed the belief that they expected Governor Sarah Palin to play an important role in the Republican Party in the coming years, regardless of the results of the election.
The day after the election, it is time to l...
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