For the past 2-3 weeks, there has been one issue that has dominated much of media attention in India. That singular issue is the Nuclear Deal between US and India. Now, everyone knows what I feel about the Left, but this time strangely I agree with them that India should not sign the deal as it is ...
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Posted by
Amira Al Hussaini
· 2:23 pm
· Iraq
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.
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The 16 months debate with all its melodrama shifted to the upper level and strategists and thinkers all over the world are trying to decipher the mind of Barack Hossain Obama, 46, the democratic hopeful of the US Presidency. Whether he will take along the existing policies or even favour more or put...
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Posted by
Kevin Rennie
· 3:00 pm
· Economy & Trade · Government & Politics · International Relations · Nuclear Proliferation
A desire for a new attitude by the U.S. to international relations is a subtext in many recent blog posts in Australia. The concern that John McCain will be more of the same is never far from the surface, writes Kevin Rennie, who reviews blogs from Down Under.
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Obama's most important legislative achievement concerns the issue that prompted my first jot at Jotman: nuclear proliferation. It's one of those issues that is not so high on the public agenda, though it ought to be. Anyway, it turns out that Obama co-sponsored "The Nuclear Non-proliferation.....
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I have a suggestion for people who support Barack Obama: They should make their support contingent on Obama finding a new foreign-policy adviser.His current foreign-policy adviser is Samantha Power, who just told an interviewer that “The next president is really going to have to walk and chew gum ...
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America suspects that a particular country is developing a nuclear bomb even though it’s leader strongly denies it. Prolonged economic and political pressure fails to persuade that nation to abandon it’s weapons programme and there’s talk of a military strike.
This is not about the current sta...
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Posted by
Chris Salzberg
· 10:32 pm
· Diaspora · Economy & Trade · Gender · Government & Politics · International Relations · Nuclear Proliferation

While Super Tuesday has come and gone in the U.S., conversations carry on in its wake among bloggers in the booming Japanese blogosphere. What do bloggers in the world's second largest economy think of the presidential elections of their major trading partner? In this post: Japanese views on Clinton, Obama, Edwards, McCain and Ron Paul.
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Posted by
Solana Larsen
· 10:33 pm
· Israel · Palestine

When American President George W. Bush arrived in Israel in January, English speaking Israeli bloggers had primarily two concerns: Complaints about the short-term discomfort that high security would cause Jerusalemites in their daily routines, and concern about rockets launched from Lebanon and ongoing attacks from Gaza hailing Bush's visit.
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Posted by
Solana Larsen
· 10:13 pm
· Iran
Several Iranian bloggers discussed the victory of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in Iowa. It was the first nominating contest of the 2008 presidential election. Some rejoiced in Obama’s victory, while others evaluated what impact "Obama as President" would have on Iranian political life.
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