March 14, 2008
According to the Israeli TV and to Al-Quds Al-Arabi (as translated by the Missing Link and reported by eatbees), the Israeli cabinet has decided to forcibly evacuate northern Gaza. "[Defence Minister Ehud] Barak intends to plan for the removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the northern G...
go to article »March 5, 2008
Change, We Can('t) Believe In! For those who got mesmerized by Obama's speaking skills or his quite charming character, this is a reminder of what he pledged in march, last year in front of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC): [...] At the same time, we must preserve ou...
go to article »March 2, 2008
When I met that’s me three years ago, he was an English major at the university. Now he is teaching English at the junior high school level. Unlike most of my Moroccan friends, that’s me has been following the American presidential campaign with interest, because he feels that if Barack Obama ...
go to article »March 1, 2008
February 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton's campaign has picked up the pace and aggressiveness towards Barack Obama. This week Clinton's campaign circulated a photo showing Obama wearing traditional Somali clothes during his visit to Kenya in 2006. Even more trivially, Obama's adversaries alleged he is Muslim, as if being Mu...
go to article »February 22, 2008
Obama’s forward-thinking 21st century technology and innovation policy starts by recognizing that we need to protect the openness of the internet and to ensure that it remains a platform for free speech and innovation that will benefit consumers and our democracy: A key reason the Internet ...
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Last night, around dinnertime, The New York Times posted on its website a 3,000-word investigation detailing Senator John McCain's connections to a telecommunications lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. The piece explores the possibility that McCain may have had an affair with the 40-year-old blond-hai...
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One of the more important questions these days for the people of the Middle East is which one of the leading US presidential candidates would help to tame the raging fires in the region. Or would it all be more of the same no matter who goes to the White House. Although I found no one in the fiel...
go to article »February 14, 2008
February 12, 2008
img: Nathan Fox Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing believes Barack Obama would be assassinated if he were elected U.S. president: "He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would kill him," Lessing said in the interview published Saturday," quoted in the In...
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