Posted by
Jillian York
· 9:42 pm
· Egypt · Kuwait · Turkey
Less than twelve hours after Democratic presidential nomination Barack Obama made waves with his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, John McCain made tsunami with his selection of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as running mate. Palin was the youngest person ever, and the first woman to be elected ...
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 3:22 am
· Bahrain · Ghana · Kenya · Madagascar · Nigeria
Continuing our coverage of the Twittersphere's response to the Democratic National Convention, we move forward to reactions to Barack Obama's speech. Obama, who took the stage at 10:15 EST, started by thanking the audience profusely, for which he received some teasing from amiraalhussaini and nplaughlin.
As the speech begins, African ...
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 2:29 am
· Kenya
Perhaps even more so than blogging, Twitter has become a popular tool for getting messages to the public quickly. Users from around the globe have been tweeting about the elections for months now, and tonight, the global Twittersphere waits with bated breath for presidential hopeful Barack Obama to accept ...
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 5:44 pm
· Government & Politics · Media & Internet
This morning, around 3:28 a.m. EST, subscribers to Presidential candidate Barack Obama's text messages received the ultimate announcement - that Obama had finally selected a running mate. His choice? Joe Biden, a senator from Delaware. Although the news was leaked as early as 2:00 a.m. EST, few members of the Twittersphere had anything to say about it. Instead, their reactions were based on Obama's selection of Biden.
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 4:06 pm
· Madagascar
As the presidential candidates come together to discuss faith and issues of morality, there's a large contingent feeling excluded. Although they have votes, American atheists and agnostics often feel left out as politicians pander to each religion, but skip past those who eschew faith.
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 2:12 pm
· Morocco
Which super heroes do presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama see themselves as? Jillian York finds out.
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 3:52 pm
· Israel · Morocco · Syria
Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said in 2000. Bloggers from the Middle East react in this post from Jillian York.
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 6:52 pm
· Iran
Immigrant communities in the US, whether able to vote or not, have so far played a public role in this year's elections. Many, fed up with US foreign policy, are looking to the incoming president, whomever it may be, for change. One such community is the large Iranian-American Jewish community, the majority of whom live in California. A recent article and podcast, in the
The Jewish Journal, focuses on the opinions of that community and their concerns with foreign policy.
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The exclamatory commentary that has accompanied Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the nomination of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate has excited, beneath it, the question of what the nomination itself, and a possible Obama presidency, might mean for the Pan-Africanist world as well as th...
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 10:35 pm
· Israel · Palestine
As US presidential hopeful Barack Obama wraps up
a tour of Israel and Palestine, newspaper headlines all over the world are fixated on the Senator's attention to Israel...and lack of attention to Palestine's struggle.
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