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Media Commentary Muted as Israel Invades Author → Asif |
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Jan6
Israel launched its
much-anticipated invasion of Gaza on Saturday. For over a week, U.S.
media had provided largely one-sided coverage of the conflict, with
little editorializing or commentary arguing against broader Israeli
actions.
Most notably, after more than eight days of Israeli
bombing and Hamas rocket launching in Gaza, The New York Times had
produced exactly one editorial, not a single commentary by any of its
columnists, and only two op-eds (one already published elsewhere). The
editorial, several days ago, did argue against the wisdom of a ground
invasion - - but even though that invasion had become ever more likely
all week the paper did not return to this subject.
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Pakistan Moves Troops Amid Tension With India Author → Asif |
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Dec26
"We will be compelled to respond if it happens,” said the Pakistani
foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, according to Pakistan’s state
news agency. “If war is imposed, we will respond to it like a brave,
self-respected and self-esteemed nation.”
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Bush gets shoes thrown at him! Author → Asif |
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Dec14
Well at least he has good reflexes. An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his Baghdad office. As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki's private office, a journalist sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," and threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush. |
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President Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech Transcript Author → Asif |
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Nov5
Obama delivered a brilliant and uplifting speech. There were remnants of Dr. Martin Luther King in this speech:
OBAMA: Hello, Chicago.
If
there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place
where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our
founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our
democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's
the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in
numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours
and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they
believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be
that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old,
rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian,
Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans
who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a
collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It's
the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be
cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their
hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a
better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight,
because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining
moment change has come to America.
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Author → Asif |
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Nov4
In a historic decision, Democrats after 8 years of fierce resistance, came back with a glorious victory, House Senate and White house. Today democrats after JFK and LBJ, BC , celebrating a Reagan type FDR type president; Barack Obama. It is important for this current political movement of both young and old to not rest of its laurels. We must continue to be politically aware, socially active, and most of all concerned citizens. If this election was race driven, in four years I believe the next election will be gender driven. My prediction is for Sarah Palin to trust herself onto the presidential platform. You have already seen her incubated, with four or even eight years of maturity, expect to see Sarah Palin again.
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