July 22, 2008
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“A US judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, involving Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, can go ahead. Judge James Robertson dismissed a claim from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, that it should be stopped while he challenged the proces...
go to article »July 17, 2008
The cover of the July 21 issue of the New Yorker magazine has caused a stir in the political circuit and prompted reprimand from the Obama campaign. The magazine depicts the presumptive Democratic nominee for President and his wife in a decidedly anti-American cartoon. Illustrator Barry Blitt drew t...
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The editors of the The New Yorker just had the brilliant idea to assemble every right-wing myth about Obama into a single cover illustration. Not surprisingly, some folks are not amused. The cover is so over-the-top, in fact, that I suspect the issue will become an instant collector's item. I... ...
go to article »July 16, 2008
As Krugman put it,"it was the best of days, it was the worst of days." Unhappily, in the morning, the Senate passed the notorious FISA spy bill, which I blogged. Wednesday afternoon, I took this photo outside the Senate wing of the US Congress. The kids in the photo have been told to wait... C...
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Let's see. Iran pressures Iraq's prime minister to push the Americans for a timetable for withdrawal. President Bush resists. And what does presidential candidate Barack Obama do? He writes an op-ed in the NYTimes that calls for abandoning Iraq's civilians, and he makes no mention of Iran's involvem...
go to article »July 14, 2008
Michael Walzer, the American political philosopher, breaks down the dimensions of the foreign policy of a prospective Obama administration at the "Dialogues on Civilisations" conference in Istanbul. There's nothing particularly new here - more multilateralism, more engagement with int...
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With a new tenant in the White House, the American policy toward the Maghreb is likely to undergo some important retooling in 2009. The magnitude of the changes is unclear as the new American administration will probably view the region through old and new lenses. John McCain, despite his Republi...
go to article »July 12, 2008
Barack Obama Responds to Iran Missile TestJuly 09, 2008 NBC Today Show...
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