jpost.com - 11/10/2008
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has great admiration for his own fortune-telling capabilities. For years, he has been making all kinds of predictions. Among his most famous are the destruction of Israel and the end of the "US empire." In March 2008, he made another prediction. "They would ...
huffingtonpost.com - 11/5/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
International reaction to the historic election of Barack
Obama as the next President of the United States...
has begun. Below is a roundup of some reactions from the around the world. BBC: World Welcomes Obama Victory The United States has seen the biggest transformation in its standing ...
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International Reaction To Obama's Presidential Election
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Wasting No Time
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
Interesting analysis in the Jerusalem Post on Iran's immediate efforts to tarnish the image of President Elect Obama: Despite this message, the conservative hard-line camp in Iran is worried about the overwhelming enthusiasm and support for the US that Obama's election has created around the world . A popular American president who talks about peace and wants to negotiate with Iran would take away their justification for leading the anti-American front in the Middle East. Furthermore, increased international support and credibility for the United States represents a more serious challenge to Iran, especially if the international community initiates new sanctions ...
The Ad Age President Who ‘Killed Election Day’
Pajamas Media —
A Madison Avenue-style campaign and an alteration of traditional voting procedures ensured victory for Obama. [image] Barack Obama’s presidential victory last Tuesday was a triumph of clever advertising, slick marketing, and subversion of the way elections were run in America for over 200 years. I’m not saying that. Fawning advertisers, marketers, and writers at Advertising Age are. On October 17, two and a half weeks before the election, Ad Age named the Obama campaign its 2008 Marketer of the Year ...
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firedoglake.com 10/15/2008 —
Is Obama the New FDR?
At this point it's clear that, barring some sort of catastrophic revelation, Obama is going to win the election. The most important task facing him will be fixing the economy. Given his economic proposals to date, what ...
Iranian official calls for attack on UK | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com 10/26/2008 — Fearing a US strike on Iran during President George W. Bush's last months in office, a senior Iranian official has suggested the Islamic regime should target London to deter such an attack. In an article on the Iranian Web site Aftab last week - ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad's Letter, and Racism toward Obama
corner.nationalreview.com 11/24/2008 — A friend who follows Iranian media closely for the U.S. government today sent this reality check about the cherry-picking in which many U.S. journalists engage to show that Iran is now receptive to a U.S. diplomatic outreach and that Iranian ...
Get Ready for a Trade War
redstate.com 11/21/2008 — A Big 3 Bailout Could Kill Thousands of Export Jobs
If nothing else, the Great Depression proved very instructive.
Plenty of commentators and analysts learned one of its important
lessons: protectionist policies are only likely to deepen ...
What Might Have Been
corner.nationalreview.com 11/3/2008 — In the end this campaign could have been a clear-cut and honest choice between two world views, unapologetically expressed. I think with McCain his conservative/centrist views and 30-year public life were pretty well known to the public. Like it or ...
Obama Plans Guantanamo Close, US Trials
huffingtonpost.com 11/10/2008 — WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close ...
DHL Closing US Service Centers, Cutting 9,500 Jobs
huffingtonpost.com 11/10/2008 — ATLANTA — In a move that could greatly scale back a possible venture between UPS and Deutsche Post's DHL, the German company said Monday it will significantly reduce its air and ground operations in the U.S. and cut 9,500 jobs within the country.
The DHL-UPS deal was expected to last ...
US military defines Mahdi Army as "militia insurgency group"
longwarjournal.org 11/30/2008 —
Muqtada al Sadr.
The US military has begun to directly identify the Iranian-backed "Special Groups" Shia terror groups with Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army in press information issued in Baghdad.
The direct association between the ...
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