Posted by
John Liebhardt
· 2:59 pm
· Australia · Germany · Iraq · Israel · Lebanon · Palestine · Serbia · Turkey
It’s morning in America. After the initial shock, the dust seems to have settled. The United States -- and the rest of the world -- has come to terms with the fact that presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has named Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. The Obama-Biden ticket will now face presumptive Republican nominee John McCain and his as-yet-unnamed sidekick to see who will become the next President of the United States. Bloggers of all stripes have moved passed their initial gut reactions on the freshly minted Democratic ticket and have started to formulate more solid opinions based on fact. That’s what covering politics is all about, isn’t it?
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Obama Chooses a Bellicose Serbophobe, KLA Senate Representative Biden as his Running Mate
Byzantine Blog entry from January 9, 2007 (via Allah's Willing Executioners)
Recently, a prime Serb-hater and Albanian Muslim lobbyist, Senator Joseph Biden of the obsessively anti-Serb Council on Foreign R...
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Veni Markovksi posts pictures and writes at length about Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra's concerts in New York City.
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Are there factors informing your perception of China circa 2008? Novelist-blogger and researcher of worldly affairs Yang Hengjun moves on from ‘How did America cover up the truth of the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia?' to his post last week, ‘Are Western countries afraid of the...
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Posted by
John Kennedy
· 6:57 pm
· China · Serbia · Taiwan (ROC)
Are there factors informing your perception of China circa 2008? Novelist-blogger and researcher of worldly affairs Yang Hengjun moves on from "How did America cover up the truth of the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia?" to his post last week, "Are Western countries afraid of the Chinese people's patriotic fervor?"
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Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, is not exactly an anti-American.
A long-time advocate of humanitarian intervention, he was in favor of removing Saddam Hussein from power in 2003. He also applauded the U.S. intervention in Serbia.
But asked this week whether the U.S. could repair the...
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The democratic choice is an easier one for progressives to make in the UK than it is in the US. Over here, the ruling Labour Party is more progressive than the Conservative opposition on both foreign and domestic issues. But in the US, things are not so simple. Were I an American citizen, I would be...
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Oh boy forget about the American Embassy in Iran , it is Serbia , I am watching it now in Aljazeera Live , oh boy I do know not if the Americans were quick to get out from the country and also to burn all the secret documents or not ,as the Russian camp would be very happy to put its hands on these...
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Bloggers and some politicians in the Middle East were quick to draw parallels between Kosovo's independence from Serbia and the Palestine Question. Following the news from the Balkans, here's a snapshot of more reactions from Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Israel:
From Israel, Auss...
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Albania,
Belgium,
France,
Georgia,
Germany,
Israel,
Italy,
Palestine,
Russia,
Serbia,
Spain,
U.S.A.,
Ukraine,
United Kingdom
According to the Yandex Blogs portal, over 3,700 posts on Kosovo independence have appeared in the Russian-language blogosphere in the past three days. Some of these posts have received dozens, if not hundreds, of comments.
Below are a few snippets of this lively discussion, all translated from Russ...
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