Open letter to Obama
Aggregated from: Lebanese Chess
If you're a teacher, please sign this Open letter to Obama to oppose Israel's war on Gaza. ...
go to article »January 13, 2009
Israel: A Strategic Liability For The US?
Aggregated from: Rantings of a Sandmonkey » American politics
Here is an interesting debate between National secuirty experts in the National Journal online, over whether or not Israel poses a startegic liability to the US in terms of global policy. For me it's interesting because middle-easterners always claim that the reason why they dislike the US forie...
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Flying While Muslim
Aggregated from: IraqPundit
I’ve been thinking about Raed Jarrar’s successful court case. Jarrar is a Palestinian-Iraqi who left Baghdad a few years ago and moved to the United States. He is known in the blogosphere for his provocative postings, which have been highly critical of the U.S. presence in Iraq.Now, Jarrar has w...
go to article »January 8, 2009
You’ve Just Been Appointed U.S. Middle East Envoy…Now What?
Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA
With the bloody fighting in Gaza, emotions are running high in the region, and around the world. The ghastly images we see on the news evoke a wide range of emotions: sympathy, empathy, regret, guilt, remorse, and yes, anger. All this is understandable. And yet we sense that strong passions and unbr...
go to article »December 31, 2008
Gaza Attack: Where is Barack Obama?
As Israel's military excursion into Gaza continues, more than a few bloggers wonder if US-president-elect Barack Obama can help put an end to fighting. However, no one has seen or heard much from the future president, leading many to wonder: Where in the world is Barack Obama?
December 26, 2008
Morocco: Obama to Speak?
Algerian-American blogger The Moor Next Door has reported on a campaign set up by Moroccans to encourage President-Elect Barack Obama to make his first speech abroad in Morocco. The blogger states:
This clever Moroccan site — Obama to Speak in Morocco — is marketing that country as the best candidate ...
December 19, 2008
Bailout logic
Aggregated from: Rantings of a Sandmonkey » American politics
So, let me get this straight: You approve, without review, almost a trillion dollars to bail out the financial companies who created this mess to begin with, and who need the money to cover their bad mortgages. That, you have no problem with. But when the Car industry, whose existence fuels almost 3...
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Jindal won’t run in 2012
Aggregated from: Rantings of a Sandmonkey » American politics
The GOP's new poster boy is way smarter than those who run the GOP, and he just proved it by stating that he won't run in 2012. He is giving himself time to prove himself, and he knows that the american public is ready to forgive Obama anything and everything for his first 4 years in office ...
go to article »December 15, 2008
Breaking News: Bush Ducks Shoes
It was an incident that lasted a mere 12 seconds. But as soon as bloggers the world over watched Muntadar Al Zeidi throw not one, but both his shoes, at US President George W Bush in a Press conference held in Iraq today, reactions - several in 140 characters or less in the Twittersphere - spread faster than you could say ‘footwear’ … twice.
