With a flood of U.S. election-related reporting all over the world, it's not often that particular pieces stand out from the mainstream. But, for German-speakers, it's worth a look at this post "Obama Wins?' from the weblog of Handelsblatt, the leading German business newspaper. While not the most brilliant example of European coverage of the […]
Hello everyone, it's Pat Frost from FPA's Central Asian blog doing a guest post. Now this piece is far from ripped off the front page headlines, but the issue is still as vibrant as ever and continually is debated in my mind: Is Tariq Ramadan, a European Muslim with an elite Islamic past (he is […]
Today, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem accused the US of committing 'terrorist aggression’ when addressing the British media in London on this weekend's raid conducted by US forces in the Syrian border area of Abu Kamal. According to a US official, the raid successfully targeted the head of a network that was financing and smuggling […]
The LA Times reports that the Air Force and Department of Defense are investigating Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, considering allegations that he interfered with certain Guantanamo prosecutions. The allegations are serious, in light of the high standards governing prosecutors’ conduct, and the Times reports the Air Force has already conducted a preliminary inquiry and found […]
As we count down to the national election voters are looking for every bit of information they can use to help evaluate the candidates. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has assembled some resources devoted to examining the foreign policy issues facing the next president: Next January, the new U.S. President will be confronted with […]
In the run-up to the election, there are so many relevant commentaries, polls and musings that it is best to just list a few of them below. Sunday's reporting by Colum Lynch, the Washington Post's UN correspondent, is titled “At the U.N., Many Hope for an Obama Win:” “There are no “Obama 2008″ buttons, banners […]
For better or worse, America has taken off the gloves in her fight against "Islamic extremism'. Motivations vary. Perhaps George Bush is making his last-ditch effort to "smoke "em out of their caves' before he leaves office, or perhaps an invigorated American command is utilizing some of its political capital gained through the security improvements […]
Today the State Department welcomes about 100 fellows of the “I-VOTE” program to a reception in the diplomatic reception rooms. I-VOTE, which stands for International Visitors Observe the Elections, is a program of State's ECA Bureau. Here's their description: “I-VOTE is an exchange initiative of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' International Visitor Leadership […]
The final sentence of this book is: "The future of Islam is being shaped now." The Islamist (published 2007) is an autobiographical portrait of a young man's journey from being a rejectionist to a patriotic British citizen. Along the way Ed Husain learns about the hypocrisy of fundamentalists "who enjoy British life while calling for […]
Here are some items that I think are worthy of your attention. As always, there is a lot happening, so I can only hope I'm looking at some of the more interesting and salient issues. Don't forget to visit some of the sites at the Blogroll at right for all sorts of great stories and […]
With just a few days remaining until the U.S. elections, I wonder not so much how they will be interpreted as who will be doing the interpreting. There are plenty of observers and commentators, of course, most of them connected in some way to national and international mass media. But there appear to be few […]
"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?" – Pope John Paul II quotes (Polish Pope. 1920-2005) No longer is it the end of the ’70s, but since the establishment of the Declaration of the Rights […]
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