December 5, 2008
My latest New Matilda column is about the incoming Obama administration and its likely foreign policy: Will Obama resist Zionist pressure and reveal his progressive side on Israel? Writing from the US, Antony Loewenstein isn’t optimistic I’m currently in the US on a book tour and I’ve been s...
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Heh: A new national poll suggests that Americans think President-elect Barack Obama’s getting it right when it comes to his Cabinet picks, especially Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates. A poll shows 71 percent of Americans approve of Barack Obama picking Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. S...
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I have to say that Obama looks to have put together a very strong Cabinet. He has wisely abandoned his pre-election rhetoric about change, and stolen half the former Clinton Administration, including the Clintons! Also has abandoned the nonsense about just fleeing from Iraq by keeping on Bush’...
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For those you have visited my blog frequently, you have probably seen the word "bagatz" and perhaps, despite it being defined as an appeal to the High Court of Justice, you might not fully grasp its significance.I found here a good example of an American situation. So, first the report and I'll fol...
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Live from Chicago, folks, for one afternoon only: *Update* Here’s the press conference now it’s over: And here’s the who’s who: Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Robert Gates as Secretary of Defence, Eric Holder as Attorney General, Marine Gen. James Jones as White Hou...
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The Associated Press notes in one of its latest reports on Senator Hillary Clinton’s future in Barack Obama’s administration that the Obama campaign did its best to ridicule Clinton and her foreign policy credentials during the primaries but that all top advisers and staffers are now sud...
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From a Chabad web site:-The Holtzberg family from Crown Heights arrived in Israel at the end of the week, immediately after receiving news of the attack. The flight to Israel was organized within several short hours. Two of the brothers, who held invalid passports received emergency passports thanks...
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The Associated Press is reporting that Barack Obama will announce Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State this Monday. ABC News reports that the entire national security team will be announced Monday. ABC News reports on the makeup of the team: Pending Senate confirmation, the President-electR...
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go to article »December 3, 2008
A single word was Barack Obama's ringing slogan as he set out on the long march to the White House. The key appointments he has made as the world waits for him to take the controls of the American government into his hands promise, in key areas, continuity more than change. Godfrey Hodgson...
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