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FINALLY, A FACEBOOK FOR REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN DONORS
(By Sarah Lai Stirland / Source: Wired) Two tech-minded Republican operatives launched a web site Monday they hope will be their party's answer to the Democrats' successful fundraising clearinghouse, ActBlue. The GOP activists plan to convert reserves of online conservative energy into hard cas... Lire la suite...
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RUSSIAN POKER WITH A MARKED DECK
Is the end of the last emperor who came in from the cold getting closer and is he going to give up power easily or is he going to become a puppeteer in the long Russian tradition that not even the Soviet regime stopped? The Russian Prime Minister, or better, the former Russian Prime Minister r... Lire la suite...
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MoveOn.org MOVES FROM FROM «BETRAY US» TO...
(By Alexander Mooney / Source : Political Ticker – USA) Five days after MoveOn.org set off a political firestorm by publishing an ad in the New York Times attacking the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, the liberal advocacy group has set its sights on President Bush. The organiza... Lire la suite...
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DARFUR: BANNING DIGNITY
I know, I know, I’m going to be my usual cynical self but it was about time for the General Secretary of the United Nations to remember why he’s actually there and move from the fancy New York receptions to Darfur. Really, has anybody noticed that the UN has a new secretary? And what has he don... Lire la suite...
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THE HUMAN BOMB: THE SARKOZY REGIME BEGINS
(By Adam Gopnik / Source : The New Yorker) To understand Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been President of France for three intense months, it helps to know the story of the human bomb. “It was in 1993, when Sarkozy was the mayor of Neuilly,” Philippe Labro, the novelist and talk-show host, recalled o... Lire la suite...
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REPUBLICANS ROCKED BY YET ANOTHER GAY SCANDAL
(By Alexander Cockburn / Source : Creators Syndicate) The casualty list of senior Republican politicians nailed for frequenting hookers, propositioning policemen, sending hot emails to pageboys and so forth is beginning to look like one of those interminable genealogies in Chronicles or the Boo... Lire la suite...
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NATION'S LEADER WANTS TO TALK -- ON FACEBOOK:...
(By LINDSAY HAMILTON / Source ABC News - USA) It's hard for many young people in Bermuda to believe, but the island nation's top government official really does want to be their friend -- their Facebook friend, that is. Politicians on social networking Web sites are nothing new. Every 2008 cand... Lire la suite...
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ARUNDHATI ROY - WE
In 1997 Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her novel "The God of Small Things". In ... Tout » 2004 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. The film examines the widely unregarded worlds of Anthropology and Geopolitics in a very dynamic manner, and is probably stylistically quite unl... Lire la suite...
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THE G8 SUMMIT - A USELESS EXERCISE AT HIGH COSTS
The G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, was expensive (app. 100 million €), troubled (1,045 people arrested), violent (several hundred protesters and police injured), puzzling (the 12 million € fence reminded in an ugly way the Israel and the former Berlin wall), weird (police had collected wee... Lire la suite...
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WHAT’S UP MR. ANNAN?
The best way to start this is with a scream! But let me rephrase it: the former General Secretary of the United Nations Kofi Annan warns that the aid targets for Africa “will be missed” unless more is done. This is the part you start screaming. Mr. Kofi Annan was UN Secretary General for two t... Lire la suite...