When The Electorate Has The Memory Of A Fruit Fly
Aggregated from: KABOBfest
From the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal. Caption: Bush: McCain is ready to lead America.... Just like me....
go to article »September 12, 2008
Global Journalists Blog Reactions to Sarah Palin
The Washington Post's PostGlobal is an effort to bring global issues to the mainstream. Calling itself an "experiment in global, collaborative journalism" the site, moderated by David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria, offers global perspectives on current issues. Twice a week, foreign independent journalists answer a question put forth ...
The Middle East Remembers 9/11
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, a pivotal day in history and a day which brought about so much heartbreak and destruction not only in the US but around the world. Bloggers from the Middle East reflect on the disaster.
September 10, 2008
September 4, 2008
Political Unity for Arab Americans?
Aggregated from: KABOBfest
As the media waited anxiously for Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC, there was a flurry of political activity in Minneapolis. Meet and greets were scheduled Wednesday for the Jewish Advisory Coalition, Hispanics, African Americans, Irish Americans, as well as Asian & Pacific Americans. The same ...
go to article »August 30, 2008
Propaganda Machine
Aggregated from: The Angry Arab News Service
So much of the modern propaganda machine owes its features and orientations to the German-American graduate of Harvard University, Ernst Hanfstaengl (Putzi). As is known, Hanfstaengl advised Hitler on media and electoral campaigning before he fled under still mysterious circumstances to the U.S. (wh...
go to article »August 25, 2008
Global: The dust settles on the Biden pick
It’s morning in America. After the initial shock, the dust seems to have settled. The United States -- and the rest of the world -- has come to terms with the fact that presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has named Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. The Obama-Biden ticket will now face presumptive Republican nominee John McCain and his as-yet-unnamed sidekick to see who will become the next President of the United States. Bloggers of all stripes have moved passed their initial gut reactions on the freshly minted Democratic ticket and have started to formulate more solid opinions based on fact. That’s what covering politics is all about, isn’t it?
August 24, 2008
Early Biden VP Reactions
Aggregated from: Dove's Eye View
Positive: Juan Cole. Not: Colonel Patrick Lang. Both men report their personal encounters, specifically re: Biden's Middle East stance. Col. Lang emailed me privately that his encounter happened in about 1996 or so. Let's hope that Biden has or will evolve on the subject of Israel/Palestine and ...
go to article »August 19, 2008
John Edwards: Scummy, fake, manipulative and pretty?
Since the former Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extra-marital affair, bloggers from around the world following the story have largely focused on two major issues: First, the sad irony of a politician having an affair while his wife, Elizabeth, fights breast cancer; Secondly, the role the mainstream press played in keeping the story silent.
August 18, 2008
Living: Me and Elizabeth Edwards
Aggregated from: Dove's Eye View
No scandal gossip here. Press coverage of Elizabeth Edwards' metastatic breast cancer has me steamed, and as a sister cancer patient, I want to say something about it. My story with breast cancer parallels Elizabeth's. Elizabeth Edwards and I are both *living* with cancer. We are alive! My fi...
go to article »August 5, 2008
Singlemindedness
Aggregated from: Bilad ash Sham
Ok, so they're electing the President of the world's only superpower, but it seems, at a quick glance at any American blog, that they are willfully interested in nothing else....
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