What have we learned about religion post-9/11? By Elizabeth Tenety WASHINGTON POST. 2011 (excerpted) On Faith reached out to some of the world’s most influential religious leaders and thinkers to ask about faith in a post-attack world. Below are excerpts from our expert roundtable. Click through[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Foreign policy’
The covert commander in chief
Over at the Washington Post David Ignatius, has a great essay on Obama’s political faults vs. Obama’s management style. I agree with Ignatius on most of this but suggest that the word “covert” is misplaced. Dick Chaney was a covert commander in chief. Barack Obama is [...]
I Nominate Huntsman to Replace Biden
Huntsman Takes On The GOP Field and Obama! Says Republican Opponents And President Obama Didn’t Show Leadership On Debt Deal … Makes Specific Criticisms Of Romney, Perry, And Bachmann … ‘This Is A Center Right Country. I Am A Center Right Candidate.’[...]
July 2nd, 2011 - 6:45 am § in Uncategorized
“FREEDOM” Mubarak’s Yacht
As Hosni Mubarak clings to CEDES! power in Cairo and the US figures out what to do with its Middle East ally, critics all over the world are looking askance at America’s estimated $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt. ProPublica blogger and MJ alum Marian Wang recently laid out[...]
May 4th, 2011 - 8:58 am § in Misc.
Can we now end the ‘clash of civilizations?’ The West must end its duplicity
from Berkeley Blog post co-authored by Beverly Crawford and Nora Reikosky. Beverly Crawford, Co-Director, UC Berkeley European Union Center of Excellence | 5/3/11 | Like the collective gasp of horror heard round the world on 9/11, we now hear a global sigh of relief at the news of Osama Bin [...]
May 3rd, 2011 - 7:06 pm § in Uncategorized
Breaking News: Deutche Bank sued by US government for fraud!
The Justice Department sued Deutsche Bank AG, one of the world’s 10 biggest banks by assets, on Tuesday for at least $1 billion for defrauding taxpayers by “repeatedly” lying to a federal agency when securing taxpayer-backed insurance for thousands of shoddy mortgages. read more at[...]
May 3rd, 2011 - 6:02 am § in America
May 1st, eight years after Bush’s “mission accomplished” speech.
May 1, 2011 , the day President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden was killed is eight years to the day from another significant date in the U. S.’ so-called war on terror. It was on this date in 2003, that former President George W. Bush delivered a speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with [[...]
President Obama’s Intelligence Director Postpones His Honeymoon.
The current choice to lead the National Counter terrorism Center is high testimony to the President’s own remarkable combination of judgment with courage. The agency played the key role in gathering the intelligence needed in the killing of bin Laden. There is glaring contrast with the [...]
UPDATE: Breaking News: U.S. Forces Kill Osama bin Laden
original post on May 1 at 8:30 AM. President Obama has announced that U.S. forces have killed Osama bin Laden and have his body. see video. “We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and t[...]
Cuban not free speech.
from Reuters, by Jeff Franks HAVANA | Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:37pm EDT HAVANA (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with Cuban Jews on Monday at the start of a private three-day visit to the island, but he did not discuss with them a U.S. aid contractor jailed for allegedly providing i[...]