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December 4, 2008

A Powerless Obama’s “First Test”

Aggregated from: EuroSavant » Barack Obama

They’re getting impatient out there in the outside world for Obama - real impatient. Last week’s attacks in Mumbai only made this situation worse, to the point that India’s crisis has somehow become Barack Obama’s crisis. This we read even in the normally-sober Financial Time...

November 16, 2008

The Obama Election Victory as Viewed from Germany

Aggregated from: AfricanLoft » USA

“How do you write about something as monumental as the election of the first African American president of the United States of America?” BRE, an African American expatriate in Germany and blogger at Jewels in the Jungle asks. It has taken me the better part of a week to recover from my...

November 15, 2008

Sarkozy to Putin: “Do you want to end up like Bush?”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Russian president Vladimir Putin are known for having a colorful and unpredictable relationship. Has Sarkozy's warning to Putin not to behave like the American president George W Bush been a factor in not escalating the crisis in Georgia? Bloggers from around Europe weigh in.

November 11, 2008

The World Celebrates Obama — But A Few Countries Already Have Demands

Aggregated from: Across the Pond

Around the world, leaders have mostly greeted the election of Barack Obama with enthusiasm, some of which is routine “congratulations to the new guy” you’d get with any U.S. election and some of which is no doubt informed by exhaustion with the President Bush years and a sincere appreciation o...

November 7, 2008

The votes are in: An overwhelming loss for mainstream media

Those of the left, right, center, communist or socialist blocks all agree about one thing: The failure of the mainstream media in its coverage of the road to the White House. Is this merely post-election griping? It can't all be. What issues afflict the mainstream media?

November 5, 2008

Politik | If the world could vote the US president

Aggregated from: macfidelity

November 4th 2008 the American people will choose a new president. The president of the United States of America is the most powerful person in the world. We would like to know who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote! In the presidential electi...

November 4, 2008

Seven Questions Interview Q&A Nr.6: Africa and the U.S. Presidential Campaign

Aggregated from: Jewels in the Jungle

Note: I felt that I should publish my answer to interview question number 6 out of sequence so that readers would easily notice it. Bearing in mind the the state of world affairs being discussed at the UN General Assembly 2008 meeting in New York this week, the U.S. presidential campaign moving into...

Dixville Notch Makes Global Blogosphere History

The world was abuzz on the eve of the historic November 4 election when news headlines revealed that Senator Barack Obama had already won by a landslide victory. Non-American bloggers from all corners of the globe got to typing their thoughts away early this morning, way before polling stations even opened in the US, all inspired by an isolated village in New Hampshire. Eunice del Rosario brings us the story.

November 3, 2008

Global Experts Liveblog the Election

The Morningside Post (a publication of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs) will be liveblogging Election Day results. Bloggers from Brazil, France, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Russia and the UK will be joining Americans in covering the event.

Barack Obama: A friend of communists and Palestinian radicals?

John McCain's campaign tried to tie Barack Obama to Rashid Khalidi, whom it called a "neo-nazi," "radical professor" and a "former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman." What do international bloggers think about these claims?