JOURNAL: Cell Phone Coordination of Open Source Protests from Global Guerrillas by John Robb Here’s a cool little phone app called Sukey to help people navigate during a protest/riot. Very useful in avoiding kettling (a slang term for police crowd containment). Check out the tutorial. What Is Data Privacy Day? [INFOGRAPHIC] from Mashable! by Sarah … Read more
OBAMA?NIN UÇUŞU kaynak Pasaport kontrolünden geçtiğinizde bulunduğunuz ülkeden çıkmış sayılıyorsunuz. İşler yolunda giderse de bir süre sonra başka bir yerde başka bir kontrol sonrasında yeni bir ülkeye giriş yapıyorsunuz. Karayoluyla yolculuk ediyorsanız bu bir kontrol noktasından diğerine geçerek ülke değiştirme deneyimi, algılarımızla kavranılması daha kolay bir süreç olarak yaşanıyor. Dikenli tellerle çevrelenmiş, askerlerin her an … Read more
One year anniversary of Obama?s broken promise to shut Guantanamo Bay, Aisha Maniar from open Democracy News Analysis – by Aisha Maniar If the president of the United States had kept his word, Guantánamo Bay would have closed down by this day last year. Signing a decree to this effect was one of the first … Read more
cartoon by Muharrem Aktan. source here. Obama ‘recess appoints’ Ricciardone as envoy to Ankara Turkey pleased with Obama’s step to appoint ambassador from Hurriyet Dailynews Ankara considers the Obama administration?s rare step to appoint an ambassador to Turkey a positive move. US-Turkey Relations: A Real Cliffhanger Huffington Post (blog) As soon as more WikiLeaks documents … Read more
President Obama Signs the ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? Repeal Act of 2010 from Dipnote – U.S. Department of State Official Blog President Barack Obama signed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Act of 2010 at the Interior Department on December 22, 2010. President Obama said that this act will help our national security and uphold … Read more
Holbrooke the dove from FP Passport by Blake Hounshell The last words of Richard C. Holbrooke, a lion of U.S. diplomacy, were “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan” — a sentence worth pondering as the United States heads into a fresh round of debate over a conflict that has ground on for more … Read more
Obama calls Turkish PM over leaked cables The Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) ? President Barack Obama called Turkey’s prime minister to mend ties following the release on the WikiLeaks website of US diplomatic cables Obama joins WikiLeaks assault The Australian … action by WikiLeaks, and the two leaders agreed that it would not influence or … Read more
a nice ad here ***************** America?s world: salesman and missionary, Godfrey Hodgson from open Democracy News Analysis – by Godfrey Hodgson Charles de Gaulle liked to say that a statesman should not be a demandeur; should not ask for favours, but should be in a position to say no. He knew what he was talking … Read more
US Election 2010: Obama lost the terms of debate and a large segment of white women, Ruth Rosen from open Democracy News Analysis – by Ruth Rosen In the wake of the election, progressive movements and their members are debating what went wrong. Some say the media amplified the bizarre statements of the Tea Party. … Read more
he is not doin’ well in the international community, too. His promise for the closure of Guantanamo, for instance… US voters punish Obama from Mark Mardell | The Reporters This is a stinging setback for a president who was elected with so much hope and so much exuberance just two years ago. But it is … Read more
How the Tea Party Utilized Digital Media to Gain Power from MediaShift The biggest story of the U.S. midterm election has been the growing influence of the Tea Party movement. Since their first rallies in early 2009, these vocal, visible conservatives have succeeded in shifting the center of American political discourse to the right. This … Read more
President Obama Tells Gay Teens ?It Gets Better? from Mashable! by Zachary Sniderman photo credit ******************* Does America have a corruption problem? from FP Passport by Blake Hounshell Transparency International’s new Corruptions Perceptions Index is out, and it’s bad news for the United States: For the first time, America has slipped out of the ranks … Read more
Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things Muslims dressed in their garb Former NPR analyst Juan Williams, among other ignorant people, has an irrational fear of Muslims, and thinks you can identify them based on what they look like. Here I will post pictures of Muslims wearing all sorts of things in an attempt to refute that … Read more
“CIA Secret Experiments” on National Geographic Channel from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz As 44 million Americans live in poverty, a crisis grows from washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Katrina vanden Heuvel When the government released new U.S. Census data on poverty last week, our warp-speed news cycle paid too little attention to what these … Read more
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) greets Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul during a luncheon with heads of state at the United Nations general assembly meetings in New York, September 23, 2010.? Read more » REUTERS/Jason Reed Turkey Welcomes UN Inquiry Report On Aid-flotilla Raid from Yahoo news (RTTNews) – Turkey has welcomed a U.N. inquiry report … Read more