Open letter to Obama
Aggregated from: Lebanese Chess
If you're a teacher, please sign this Open letter to Obama to oppose Israel's war on Gaza. ...
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Inaugural Committee plans 10 balls, raises $24m
Aggregated from: England for Obama
As you do. When you’re the Presidential Inaugural Committe organising Barack Obama’s inauguration. The full line-up of official balls has been revealed - and it includes a Youth Ball for those aged 18-35; a Commander-In-Chief’s Ball for wounded veterans and those serving in the mil...
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Blame Australia!
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Guess who’s staying in the Presidential guest house Blair House - and thus preventing the Obamas from moving in? The delightful John Howard. Although, as Margaret Carlson says here, the 35 (count ‘em!)-bathroomed Blair House was reportedly free until recently - and Howard may well have b...
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Obama defends his intelligent choice
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Sorry: intelligence choice. No, make that: intelligent intelligence choice. Rachel Maddow (brilliantly) covers the controversy surrounding Obama’s pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; backgr...
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Obama’s Perestroika Challenge: US & Russia , W. George Krasnow
Aggregated from: open Democracy News Analysis - american power & the world
The challenge Barack Obama faces is being compared with that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1933 depression and of Abraham Lincoln at the start of the civil war. Another analogy suggests itself, with Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. Then, in 1985, the USSR was at war, its economy sta...
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Obama Warns: Deficit Will Increase Significantly
Aggregated from: PoliGazette
The already out of control deficit of the United States federal government will become even worse in the coming years, President-Elect warned Americans this week. He said they face ““trillion-dollar deficits for years to come” and that Americans should prepare for it. One of the main r...
go to article »January 8, 2009
A Dark Past in East Timor for Obama's National Intelligence Nominee
Citizen journalists from East Timor have been busily tweeting about the nomination of Admiral Denis C. Blair for the post of US director of National Intelligence. The nominee faces serious accusations of backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor in the 1990's, an invasion which led to the killing of approximately 1,400 Timorese and the displacement of 300,000 people.
You’ve Just Been Appointed U.S. Middle East Envoy…Now What?
Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA
With the bloody fighting in Gaza, emotions are running high in the region, and around the world. The ghastly images we see on the news evoke a wide range of emotions: sympathy, empathy, regret, guilt, remorse, and yes, anger. All this is understandable. And yet we sense that strong passions and unbr...
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All the presidents men
Aggregated from: England for Obama
This is quite something: And here they are walking and talking and such. Well, talking, at least: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !im...
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Professor President
Aggregated from: England for Obama
BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast a very interesting programme about Obama’s academic career in Harvard and Chicago. You can hear it on the iPlayer here. ...
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