Latest updates 8/30/2009 @ 10:30 AM (PST). According to Japan’s broadcaster NHK, the DPJ has won 306 seats out of the 480 seats in the Lower House. DPJ’s Yukio Hatoyama, a Stanford University graduate in engineering, will be Japan’s new Prime Minister. Hatoyama just made the following statement at a press conference, after his historical [...]
Last night, Bill Moyers was a guest on Bill Maher’s show. The “conscience of American journalism” gave a 30 minutes interview that was a comprehensive and brilliant analysis, and should be used, quite frankly, as a manifesto for the progressive Democrats. If President Obama wants to be more than just a one term President, he [...]
While the 4th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina slipped by yesterday almost unnoticed, mainstream media continued to obsess over Michael Jackson’s homicide and on the story about the California couple that kidnapped a girl 18 years ago and hid her in a secret shed. At the same time we have Rupert Murdoch’s son, James, telling people at a conference in Edingburg that “independent” journalism is being threatened by news networks funded by government money — the BBC specifically. Come again?
In the aftermath of the Afghan elections, Richard Holbrooke and Hamid Karzai had a lunch meeting on the day after the elections. The meeting was described by the US embassy in Kabul as testy and filled with sharp exchanges. Veteran diplomat Holbrooke is know for his bluntness, and apparently he made sure to let Karzai know that Washington’s impatience towards him was rapidly growing.
If this decision from the Obama administration is confirmed, and it is likely to be according to a statement from the State Department, it will be viewed by the Palestinians and the Arab world as a sign that the Obama administration is caving in to the refusal by Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu to put a [...]
