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Mr. Obama, like you, I have read the beautifully crafted speech that you delivered when accepting the Nobel peace prize. Unlike you, I do not believe what it says. In that speech, you fail to consider too many important facts.
At a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida on 28 January, President Obama explained what in his view had to happen if there is to be a two-state solution which would see Israel and the Palestinians living side by side in peace and security. He said, "Both sides are going to have to make concessions".
"No democracy please, we're Americans", seems to be the message from multitudes of Americans, the corporate media, the political establishment and the rich and powerful lobby that influences government policy.
Demonstrations in support of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt? Who would have thought of this just a few days ago? No one. I am certain that this would come as a surprise to many people around the world. Only Egyptians would understand.
After years of lamenting the lack of democracy in the Arab world, the U.S. has met the Egyptian pro-democracy revolution with fear and trepidation. Indeed it was doing everything it can to stop it.
The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party - including Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal - will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power which the NDP represented in Egypt is now a mere shell, a propaganda poster with nothing behind it.
What next in Egypt? The U.S. has gone back and forth, at one point saying that change must occur "yesterday", and then the tune changed. "We need to get a national consensus around the pre-conditions for the next step forward. The President must stay in office to steer those changes," said special envoy Frank Wisner.
These are the nine Turkish aid workers who were killed by Israel's armed forces on May 31, 2010 on board Mavi Marmara trying to break the siege of Gaza:
The term “Honour killing” has always bothered me because
Last week, while aboriginal demonstrators were marching outside the Centre Block on Parliament Hill, New Democratic MP Niki Ashton rose in the Commons and asked the government - again - to convene a national inquiry to provide answers and justice for the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
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