January 13, 2009
Barack Obama has broken his silence about the situation in Gaza - it seems as a result of the latest Israeli attack, which killed 40 at a United Nations school. From MSNBC.com: “President-elect Barack Obama said he was “deeply concerned” about civilian casualties in Gaza and Israel...
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If you're a teacher, please sign this Open letter to Obama to oppose Israel's war on Gaza. ...
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Here is an interesting debate between National secuirty experts in the National Journal online, over whether or not Israel poses a startegic liability to the US in terms of global policy. For me it's interesting because middle-easterners always claim that the reason why they dislike the US forie...
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Guess who’s staying in the Presidential guest house Blair House - and thus preventing the Obamas from moving in? The delightful John Howard. Although, as Margaret Carlson says here, the 35 (count ‘em!)-bathroomed Blair House was reportedly free until recently - and Howard may well have b...
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The challenge Barack Obama faces is being compared with that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1933 depression and of Abraham Lincoln at the start of the civil war. Another analogy suggests itself, with Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. Then, in 1985, the USSR was at war, its economy sta...
go to article »January 8, 2009
Citizen journalists from East Timor have been busily tweeting about the nomination of Admiral Denis C. Blair for the post of US director of National Intelligence. The nominee faces serious accusations of backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor in the 1990's, an invasion which led to the killing of approximately 1,400 Timorese and the displacement of 300,000 people.
With the bloody fighting in Gaza, emotions are running high in the region, and around the world. The ghastly images we see on the news evoke a wide range of emotions: sympathy, empathy, regret, guilt, remorse, and yes, anger. All this is understandable. And yet we sense that strong passions and unbr...
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