American politics: Is Obama progressive-fools\' go
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American politics: Is Obama progressive-fools' gold?
Editorial
By Ben Tanosborn
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Presidential candidates address everything... and nothing
It happens time and again as America's quadrennial campaigns to gain residency at the imperial White House gather momentum. Although our forever-cloned candidates, one for each of the two indistinct political parties, are asked to address each and every issue of the day, soft-hearted – or perhaps civically-ignorant – Americans...
An Iranian Dissident’s Experience Provides Lessons for Americans
Political Views
By MWC NEWS
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Last Sunday, the New York Times carried an article about a 31-year-old Iranian dissident, Ahmad Batebi, who successfully escaped imprisonment in Iran, where he was being tortured. Making his way through Iraq and ultimately arriving in Washington, D.C., Batebi taunted his former captors with a photograph of himself in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Embedded Photojournalist Accuses Military of Censorship
Investigating Reports
By MWC NEWS
Monday, 14 July 2008
An American photojournalist who was embedded with the Marines in Fallujah has been barred from the Marine Corps because of graphic photographs showing Marines killed in a suicide bombing last month.
Israel's cabinet has given its final go-ahead to a prisoner swap with Lebanon's Hezbollah, despite comments from Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, that the Shia group had not fully kept its side of the bargain.
Sudan has dismissed the move by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek the arrest of its president on charges of waging a campaign of genocide and rape in Darfur.
George Bush, the US president, has lifted an executive ban on oil drilling on the US outer-continental shelf, the White House has said, improving prospects for oil exploration projects to go ahead in the region.
The United Nations is expected to decide whether to allow China to import more than 100 tonnes of elephant ivory in a one-off sale of government stockpiles in four African countries.
A US rights group has condemned the country's "terrorism" watch list as "unfair", saying it has become bloated and contains too many names to be effective.
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At least 28 people have been killed and more than 50 others wounded after two suicide bombers targeted an Iraqi army base in Diyala province.
