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May 16, 2008

Say NO to politics on the week-ends…

Aggregated from: Buckaroo Thandi

How was your week-end? I had a fabulous one, spent a lot of time not thinking about our world's decay...I save that for Mondays. Parliament is still stalling, Southern Rhodesia is still sorting out who's worth being President and Obama is not a clear winner yet. So what else is new? I am keeping ...

Beneath Obama’s rebuke of Jeremiah Wright: Is a new global consciousness afoot?

Aggregated from: Afrika-Aphukira

When I learned that the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright was going to give a speech at Michigan State University on February 7th, I spread the word to friends and colleagues I knew would love to hear Barack Obama’s pastor speak. Of the half dozen or so people I mentioned his name to, none of them had ...

The US primary Elections and my support for Obama

Aggregated from: Boni Dulani

A number of people have asked me to speed up the entries on the US presidential elections. Here's my first entry, which ends with my endorsement of Barack Obama. The process of picking up the candidates Unlike in our mother Malawi, where all the main parties have effectively picked their candi...

McCain says victory in Iraq by 2013

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

McCain says victory in Iraq by 2013New John McCain ad...

Behold The American Right-Wing

Aggregated from: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

A P P E A S E M E N T - This morning I appeased my car by driving it. What and who did you appease today? If you missed it, this morning the village idiot was in Israel saving the world from the Nazis again.   george w bush israel ...

I Dont Want To Pick A Side!

Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA

Whenever election time comes around and all the candidates become poised in partisan battles the urge for people to label their peers liberal or conservative becomes more appealing. I always find this cycle tiring because friends, family and readers try to slap some sort of label on me and they almo...

The People vs. West Virginia

Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland

Well I have been thinking about reorganizing the sidebar of this blog to move up the Twitter Applet so that more people can take notice of it. I am not sure if many people are aware of Twitter but the nice thing for me is that I can blog my thoughts from my mobile if I am out and about. I have a r...

Lebanon: Iran Smart, US Dumb?

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

“Two veteran American commentators who have spent time in Beirut and who are sometimes referred to as the “Liberal Neocons”, have seen what happened in Lebanon and reached similar conclusions” - that Iran is smart and the US is dumb - writes Beirut Spring from Lebanon. ...

McCain Flip Flops on Hamas

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

McCain Flip Flops on HamasIn an interview two years ago, Sen. John McCain had a different stance on whether Hamas should deal with the U.S.McCain on Hamas in 2006: Going to Have to Deal With ThemJohn McCain on Hamas in 2006Bush Compares Obama to Nazi AppeasersWhile delivering an address before the I...

Juan Cole the Secret Neocon

Aggregated from: IraqPundit

Is Juan Cole in need of a holiday? I ask because today he let it slip that he is, after all, a secret Neocon. True, he hasn't shown me his Neocon decoder ring or offered me the secret handshake. On the other hand, he did say this about relations between the U.S. and Ahmad Chalabi:"This time the issu...