"The Decline in America’s Reputation: Why?
The Decline in America’s Reputation: Why?
(PDF; 711 KB)Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs — Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
From press release — Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-MA)
Israel, Obama and the AK Party
Excerpts from an article by M. K. Bhadrakumar (former Indian ambassador to Turkey) in Asia Times (click here for full article)
… It seemed for a fleeting moment that last year’s elections in Turkey would lead to engendering a balance between Islam, democracy, secularism and modernity. The AKP secured its mandate as a party of religiously observant people and as a party of the “average Turk” (to quote Erdogan),
rather than as a party rooted in Islam…
John McCain Launches a Blog
John McCain recently launched a new blog called the The McCain Report. The tagline of the blog is a "blog you can believe in." The Nationreports that a McCain campaign spokesperson sent out the following description of the new blog.Possible US vice presidential candidates
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES:Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is in the early stages of what he says will be a deliberative and wide-ranging search for a running mate. Obama has asked a three-memberObama matters more than the Constitutional Court
Cengiz ÇANDARClinton bows out and backs Obama for president
Hillary Clinton threw her 'full support' behind Barack Obama and urged her supporters to do the same as she ended her bid to become America's first woman presidentObama's Economic Challenge
It was a telling sign that one of the first things Barack Obama did after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination was to hire a new economic policy director, someone who can help him move from the anti-NAFTA left of the party toward the pro-market center that traces its lineage to Clinton administration Treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.Barack Obama: crossroads of victory, Godfrey Hodgson
The extraordinary, compelling race in the United States for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee has been settled in favour of Barack Obama. But a moment of triumph can also be one of danger. The candidate must now think seriously and decide what kind of candidate he wants to be. On the answer will depend his chances of success in the election on 4 November 2008.
