December 9, 2008
Delving back into history a little, Barack Obama will not be the first President from Illinois to receive international moral support. In 1862 textile workers from Manchester, England, who were suffering economic hardship as a result of the Union blockade on Confederacy ports (from where they source...
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Refering to the "arc of instability from the Mediterranean to Islamabad", veteran British columnist Simon Jenkins, on a visit to Lebanon, writes: "At last this exhausted region is energised - by its old foe. From the Mediterranean to Islamabad, people battered for a decade by dreadful US policies ar...
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Reuters has filmed a series of video messages from people in a dozen countries congratulating Barack Obama on his election victory and offering suggestions, requests and advice. You can submit your own video message on YouTube, tagging it postcardstopresident. This builds on Reuters excellent Voices...
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Building on all the anecdotal evidence of improving views of America around the world since the election, here is some hard opinion data. It comes from a daily poll by PoliticsHome of a politically balanced panel of 5,000 voters across the UK who are asked to say every day whether they have a posit...
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In his historic acceptance speech last night, President-elect Obama addressed us as well: "And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny i...
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As we begin to come down from the high of celebrations and recover from lost sleep it is worth reflecting on what, if any, role international support had in Obama's election. We've had skeptical comments on this blog from both Americans who were angry that foreigners should take such an interest in ...
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At Newseum you can browse the front pages for 5th and 6th November of over 300 newspapers around the world (thanks to Ben at Avaaz for a pointer to this). Here are a few of our favourites:...
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I take it many of you were up all night on the 4th? Please write up your experiences in a comment or on our facebook page.I was watching the results come in with Iraqi & Lebanese friends in Beirut, and Obama's stirring acceptance speech came in at 7am local time, just before I had to catch a fl...
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Add a message to Avaaz's wall in DC: "As citizens across the world, we congratulate you on your election, and celebrate your campaign commitments to sign a strong new global treaty on climate change, close Guantanamo prison and end torture, withdraw carefully from Iraq, and double aid to fight pover...
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Check out the President-elect's new website, the appropriately named www.change.gov. It has pages outlining Obama's plans on foreign policy, Iraq and the environment. You can share your visions and there is even a section to apply for jobs in the new administration, and it appears from the applicati...
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