December 8, 2008
December 5, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court is about is consider and then immediately dismiss a lawsuit challenging Obama’s citizenship on the basis of a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories from the loonier fringes of the far right. Hopefully, this will put this issue to rest among all but the black-helicopt...
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My latest New Matilda column is about the incoming Obama administration and its likely foreign policy: Will Obama resist Zionist pressure and reveal his progressive side on Israel? Writing from the US, Antony Loewenstein isn’t optimistic I’m currently in the US on a book tour and I’ve been s...
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Just when you thought BHO couldn’t go up in your estimation… From The Grauniad: “According to tomorrow’s New Statesman, Barack Obama was unimpressed by his encounter with David Cameron earlier this year and commented: “What a lightweight!” According to James Macin...
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Refering to the "arc of instability from the Mediterranean to Islamabad", veteran British columnist Simon Jenkins, on a visit to Lebanon, writes: "At last this exhausted region is energised - by its old foe. From the Mediterranean to Islamabad, people battered for a decade by dreadful US policies ar...
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Let me make a prediction: there will be something negative written about France in the U.S. media today! Oh, and there will be a mention of the economy being in tatters, and that the French are in denial! This New York Times article, however, wouldn’t qualify. It’s a couple of weeks old. But it...
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Texans are taking their cues from Londoners these days with the establishment of a CCTV-based surveillance program for monitoring the US-Mexico border. A public-private initiative between the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition and the digital surveillance program Blue Servo, the program has erected...
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For those you have visited my blog frequently, you have probably seen the word "bagatz" and perhaps, despite it being defined as an appeal to the High Court of Justice, you might not fully grasp its significance.I found here a good example of an American situation. So, first the report and I'll fol...
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Farid at Bangla in Use Globally posts some pictures of the Bangla Town in New York, USA. ...
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Louder than Swahili posts a picture of an Obama kanga, a traditional East-African cotton fabric with writing printed on the sides. It says “Hongera Brack Obama. Upendo na amani ametujalia mungu”, which in Kiswahili means something like “Congratulations Barack Obama. Love and peace ...
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