July 21, 2008
“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 »June 4, 2008
Obama has repeatedly topped online and offline polls, many of which we've profiled before. Some interesting new data comes from English, baby!, the most visited website for English language students with 750,000 members. It has run a series of polls related to the US Presidential elections. The firs...
go to article »April 30, 2008
"I’m offering Sen. Obama the chance to debate me one-on-one, no moderators. Just the two of us going for 90 minutes asking and answering questions. We’ll set whatever rules seem fair." That's how Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presented her invitation for a 'one-on-one' debate to Sen. Barack Obama....
go to article »April 9, 2008
Since the times of Jesse Owens who was never invited to the White House nor bestowed any honors by the then residents of that House; since: Emmet Till, Rosa Parks, James Meredith, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Americans have achieved much in their quest for equal rights for their different race...
go to article »March 28, 2008
March 15, 2008
The American news media, as always, relishes such dirt. Not even yesterday's big slump of the Dollar, or the precarious state of the American economy or the current (undemocratic) tight Democratic Party's race for the White House - not any of these is getting, now, as much coverage and such focused ...
go to article »March 10, 2008
22,755 Americans living abroad cast votes in the Democrats Abroad primaries. The map below demonstrates that Americans living in most countries favoured Obama. Although The World Wants Obama is most interested in the views of non-Americans, these results reinforce the evidence we've gathered of Sena...
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