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Racism on the Republican Trail?

Posted by Hoa Quach · 3:32 pm · Australia · Bosnia Herzegovina · Portugal · South Korea

Just three weeks away from the November 4 election and things are heating up on the campaign trails, specifically the trails of Republican candidates Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin. On Monday, McCain spoke at a New Mexico rally where supporters called the Demoratic candidate Barack Obama a “terrorist.” ... 8 comments · read »

Australia,
Japan,
Netherlands,
South Korea

Asian Markets Fall

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

The result of the failure of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote in the best interest of their nation and the world: Japan’s Nikkei Index was down 4.12 percent while the Australian Securities Exchange fell 4.32 percent. The Hong Kong exchange dropped 1.4 percent. he Korea Exchange in Seo...

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Korea: Why did Bush come to Korea?

Posted by Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A. · 7:57 pm · South Korea

Bush’s visit to Korea for one night and two days on the fifth of August made a lot of people busy: A big group who welcomed his visit in one street of Seoul, another big group who were opposed to his visit in the other street of Seoul, the police who were busy suppressing the [...] 0 comments · read »

South Korea

South Korea: Anti Bush / LMB Protest

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

CINA posts some photos and links of the anti-Bush and President Lee Myung-bak protest on 5 of August. ...

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South Korea

South Korea: Sentiment Behind Anti Beef Protest

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Korea Beat looked into the sentiment of protesters in the anti-U.S beef demonstration by some protest statistics. Ask a Korean pointed out earlier that the leaders and participants of demonstrations are different in their attitude towards U.S. ...

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Ireland,
South Korea

The Beef With America

Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland

So, what’s the key? I’m Korean. As Korean, I just want to say about the big problem in Korea about US beef.Why Koreans have to fight to their president? April 18th, 2008, the president Lee Myung Bak of Korea and president Bush seemed to be so close. The problem is that they just seemed ...

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South Korea,
Thailand

US beef threat has South Koreans outraged

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

South Korea is an amazing country: nothing bad ever originates there; all the bad things in Korea come from other countries. True to form, absolutely massive protests swept the South Korean capital Tuesday evening. They concerned the government's plan to allow the import of US beef. The... Clic...

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South Korea

South Korea: Mad Cow and Anti LMB

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Kotaji posted two video clips about the recent protest against the importation of U.S beef (Mad Cow) to South Korea and the issue is also directed against Lee Myung-bak's Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. ...

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China,
South Korea,
Vietnam

Action: Subtitling Obama videos in many languages

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama Coalition

A phenomenal initiative is underway to produced subtitled Obama videos with captions in many languages. Languages represented so far include Chinese, French, German, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese. The archive of videos is on YouTube and there are more formats on the main website (including ones optimi...

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South Korea,
U.S.A.