Reddit Rising: Community Site Just Had Its Coming-Out Party from Mashable! by Christina Warren How Obama Won the Internet ? in an Hour from Mashable! by Chris Taylor This Is What Barack Obama Looks Like Doing a Reddit AMA from Mashable! by Annie Colbert Romney confirmed as rival for White House against … Read more
Obama here talks to PM Erdoğan about the crisis in Syria. Turks try to understand what this pose means. White House releases statement on ‘baseball bat’ photo from Hurriyet Daily News The White House released a statement today to end the debate on U.S. President Barack Obama’s pose holding a baseball bat while speaking … Read more
Why the upcoming presidential election is one of the most important in US history: an interview with Theda Skocpol, Theda Skocpol from open Democracy News Analysis – by Theda Skocpol This interview conducted at the Kennedy School in Boston was first published in Juncture, the new international journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research. … Read more
Off the Grid There are growing number of people who have decided to live light on the earth to not be a part of problem anymore I spent the last few years with four of them striving for harmony with nature in the most pristine corners of United States. ************ United States: Occupy Wall Street … Read more
French President Sarkozy Sees Opportunity for Censorship, Seizes It from EFF.org Updates by jillian In the wake of a horrific rampage, in which Mohamed Merah (now dead after a 32-hour standoff with police) reportedly murdered three French soldiers, three young Jewish schoolchildren, and a rabbi, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has begun calling for criminal … Read more
Evolving Narrative of Barack Obama from The Global Language Monitor by admin Three Distinct Narratives during Presidency President Obama?s State of the Union Address earlier this week provided the Global Language Monitor the opportunity to analyze the changing Obama Narrative since he rose to the national prominence some five years ago. GLM found three distinct … Read more
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification: Bigger and Faster but Much Worse for Privacy from EFF.org Updates by jlynch This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and several other organizations released documents from a FOIA lawsuit that expose the concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and biometric … Read more
President Barack Obama Starts Using His Twitter for 2012 Campaign from Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere America?s presidential politics, Godfrey Hodgson from open Democracy News Analysis – by Godfrey Hodgson Barack Obama?s hopes of a second term are still bright. But twin policy crises and Republican stirrings are clouds on his re-election horizon, says Godfrey … Read more
One of the viral memes in the social web…. Name Fail: The Media?s Most Embarrassing Obama/Osama Gaffes by Sarah Kessler Tweeting Bin Laden: Have US Journalists Become Citizen Reporters? by Asteris Masouras When news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on May 2, 2011 journalists in the United States were tweeting and using social media … Read more
?You?re another of the white man?s tools sent to spy!? Malcolm told Alex Haley when they first met. Photograph by Eve Arnold. This American LifeThe making and remaking of Malcolm X. by David Remnick ************************ Obama Says White House Tech Is 30 Years Behind by Charlie White The president is getting frustrated with antiquated technology … Read more
Libyan rebels blame airstrike lull on Turkey – Washington Times NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) shakes hands with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara April 4, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas Turkey pursues its Libya mediation efforts despite setbacks Ankara politicking for post-Gadhafi era in Libya from Hurriyet Dailynews Amid ongoing … Read more
Obama 2012 takes off as rivals ‘hit treacle’ from Mark Mardell | The Reporters by Mark Mardell (the Reporters) The 2012 presidential race is on. Kinda. At the moment, it feels more like a wade through treacle – so slow is the pace of President Barack Obama’s opponents. Mr Obama can be unambiguous that … Read more
Libya airstrikes could start ‘within hours of resolution’ by Mark Mardell (the Reporters) The United Nations seems on the brink of taking a momentous decision. After hanging back for days the Americans have now not only backed the British and French resolution on Libya but beefed it up. The fact that the French foreign minister, … Read more
Obama’s humiliating concession on Guantanamo from Mark Mardell | The Reporters One of Barack Obama’s very first acts as president was to sign an order closing the detention centre for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Et Tu, Barack! The Torture Continues from WhirledView by Patricia Lee Sharpe By Patricia Lee … Read more
more photos here 2011 Wisconsin budget protests Egyptian orders a pizza for the Wisconsin demonstrators from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Ian’s, a pizzeria near the Wisconsin state capitol that is sympathetic to the demonstrators, has been facilitating the process of supporters around the world who want to send pizza to the protest. They’ve fielded … Read more