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PM Ehud Olmert When scandal forces most politicians from office, they invariably cite a desire to spend more time with their families as their reason for leaving. Therefore, it was interesting to hear Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put an interesting twist on this refrain last night by citing his desire to shield his family… Read more.
Yesterday, wholly gratuitous coverage of the 5.4-magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles (which damaged a few buildings but injured nobody) and speculation about vice presidential nominees dominated all media. Meanwhile, the most important event of the day, namely the US Congress finally apologizing for slavery, went virtually unreported. In fact, the House of Representatives resolved as follows:… Read more.
Reprinted from Caribbean Net News Caribbeannetnews.com Published on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Regular readers of Caribbean Net News know that Anthony Livingston Hall is one of our featured columnists who writes on a wide variety of topics every week. However, his commentaries on political developments in the Turks and Caicos Islands… Read more.
Just months ago, China faced near-universal condemnation for its brutal crackdown on Buddhist monks who took to the streets of Tibet to protest against Chinese rule. Moreover, there was widespread belief that the outrage world leaders expressed would compel many of them to punish China by personally boycotting the Beijing Summer Olympics (or, in some… Read more.
Watching the way world leaders greeted Barack Obama on his world tour last week, one could be forgiven the impression that he was already president of the United States. There’s no denying that the political atmospherics of his tour, which had leaders in the Middle East treating Obama like a president and people in Berlin… Read more.
Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace. The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group that he chairs,… Read more.
This week, while much of the world was focused on Barack Obama’s tour of Europe and the Middle East, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was in Moscow doing his best to resuscitate the Cold-War tensions that led to the Cuban Missile crisis, which brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of war. And he assured the… Read more.
After regaling leaders in the Middle East with his presidential bearing and command of the complex issues that beset this region, Barack Obama flew to Germany today where he’s scheduled to give a speech on US-EU relations that Germans are anticipating as if it were a free concert by the Rolling Stones. He will follow… Read more.
I feel obliged to state for the record that I would never comment on a politician’s private life unless it betrays the statements, policies and conduct he espouses in his public life. This is why I commented on the travails of anti-gay crusader Senator Larry Craig – after he was arrested for soliciting gay sex in… Read more.
Notwithstanding that every Serb I know believes that Dr. Radovan Karadzic was hiding in plain sight, reports are that a tip from a foreign intelligence agency finally enabled Serbian security officers to arrest him yesterday. Indeed, it is a testament to either the incompetence or perfidy of Serbian (and UN) authorities that Karadzic managed to… Read more.
