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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 21, 2008

  From Bush’s idealism to Obama’s realism?

By ÖMER TAŞPINAR: When President George W. Bush entered office, he promised to follow a "realist's" foreign policy. His secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, was a student of Brent Scowcroft, who, together with Henry Kissinger, is an icon of American realpolitik. Cheney, his vice...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 18, 2008

  Barack Obama's historic victory (2)

By RICHARD FALK* Barack Obama's presidential victory, above all, signaled to the world an American willingness to repudiate Bush militarist and unilateralist approaches to global policy. Time will tell, but what now prevails is an unprecedented mood of high and happy expectations.The...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 17, 2008

  Barack Obama's historic victory (1)

By RICHARD FALK* The historic victory by Barack Obama is the first truly global election that has been celebrated by people around the world as if they had been voting participants. The re-election of George W. Bush in 2004 was also a national election with global reverberations, but it...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 5, 2008

  Fidel Castro praises Obama but says he is neutral

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban's former communist leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday praised Democrat Barack Obama as "more intelligent" than "old, bellicose" Republican John McCain, but said that he was officially neutral in the US presidential election. The ailing Castro, 82, said in a column...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 4, 2008

  Waiting for an election result

By ANDREW FINKEL: It is a brave or possibly simply vain commentator that is prepared to add even one more word to the zillions already published on today's American presidential election. And it is the better part of valor that stops a morning paper published in İstanbul from...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 26, 2008

  Obama helps people of mixed race find identity

By: Amber Mobley: Hundreds of years back, they were classified as "mulatto" . Half black. Half white ... and usually the result of a slave master's marital indiscretions. These days, biracial people are finding themselves with a new kind of identity, thanks to presidential nominee...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 20, 2008

  The end of American greed?

By CHARLES R. LARSON: If you’ve been attempting to make sense of the American presidential campaign, you are not alone. Weird, unbelievable, out of control -- these are terms that clearly apply to the nastiest election the country has ever encountered. Let me assure you, however,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 19, 2008

  THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Reflections of Fidel: Trade, within a society and among countries, is the exchange of goods and services produced by human beings. The owners of the means of production appropriate the profits. As a class, they are the leaders of the capitalist state and they boast of fostering development...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  From crisis to panic

By ASIM ERDİLEK: It is no longer just a global financial crisis waiting to be ended by government rescue plans of this sort and that sort, here and there. What we now have is a full-blown global financial panic, seemingly impervious to plans of any sort, which last week caused a brutal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008

  If Obama were white

By ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ: As a presidential election closely monitored by the entire world nears its conclusion, new issues emerge to rekindle discussions. Some of them are the same kinds of trivial matters raised by the media during every election, such as images of Sarah Palin,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008

  ‘Know your place’: Obama’s challenge to American racism

By: CHRISTOPHER VASILLOPULOS: “They could succeed, but they could hardly, in any real sense, return. They could expiate their crimes in a technical, legal sense, but what they suffered there warped them into permanent outsiders.” -- Robert Hughes, “The Fatal Shore” Robert...... [view]

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