Barbados: Caribbean Football Falters
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Living in Barbados comments on the fortunes of regional football teams, as qualification matches begin for World Cup 2010. ...
go to article »June 25, 2008
If Venezuela could vote…
What if Venezuela could vote in the U.S. elections? Link TV's Dear American Voter series allows citizens of other countries to share their opinions on the upcoming elections. Francisco Toro of Caracas Chronicles does just that, giving viewers a sense of how the U.S. elections could affect Venezuela.
June 23, 2008
June 18, 2008
Morocco: Dreaming of a Muslim President?
Despite what the U.S. (and some foreign) media might say, it seems that, rather than call Obama an apostate from Islam, some Muslims would prefer to call Obama a fellow Muslim. Such is the case in Morocco, where American expat North Africa Notes says that "most Moroccans know more ...
June 15, 2008
India: Obama in Black and White
Indian bloggers are joining the rest of the world to decipher Barack Obama and reflect on what his election to the White House would mean for their country and its civilian nuclear development programme and Indo-US relations. In a post entitled Obama in Black and White, Delhi-based blog Chanakya's World discusses what Obama's nomination could mean to India and its neighbours, the War on Terror and the delicate balance of power in a volatile part of the world.
June 11, 2008
The Bigotry of Liberal Sympathy
Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA
If there is anything I hate more than right-wing Conservative nut jobs with tunnel vision, it’s fruit cake Liberals and their “compassionate” racism. That’s what I would call it anyway. Generally it’s the conservative members of society that attract and harbor the most...
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West Africa Becomes Dump for Electronics Waste Disposal
Aggregated from: AfricanLoft
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries agreed to a law that aims to stop the flow of electronic waste from being dumped in Africa and Asia. But Consumer International’s Luke Upchurch says this has not stopped the dumping of end-of-life electronics in what he desc...
go to article »June 4, 2008
UN Sec Gen calls for end to food tariffs and biofuel subsidies
Aggregated from: Kiwiblog
Some common sense and plain speaking from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who has called for an end to food tariffs and to subsidies for biofuels as the key way to bring down the price of food and stop millions from starvation. Sadly this advice will be ignored by the Greens and NZ First who both s...
go to article »May 21, 2008
Book Review: The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
Aggregated from: Desicritics Category: Politics: US
One of the most common complaints about the media is that many journalists do not have the appropriate background to comment on economics and complex political issues in detail. Those who believe this, however, have probably not encountered the likes of Fareed Zakaria, a Harvard grad and well-known...
go to article »May 20, 2008
This is not a parody, promise
Aggregated from: Pickled Politics » United States
This is straight from Melanie Phillips’s blog: Anthony Browne has an excellent piece in this week’s Spectator saying that what Britain needs is US-style think-tanks whose size enables them to do what the far more modest British think-tanks cannot do and for which there is a crying need — t...
go to article »May 8, 2008
Iran: US Elections from an Iranian Perspective
Iranian bloggers have launched a far-ranging debate about the elections in the United States at the time when such discussions are not seen in mainstream media. Akbar Chanani tunes into the Farsi blogopshere where Iranian bloggers continue to compare between the elections in the US and Iran and discuss their hopes and fears of how the next president in the Oval Office would react towards their country.
