January 2009

Ex-Prisoner Relates Horror Lived in Guantanamo

January 31, 2009 // La Nacion - Argentina - Spanish

...Barack Obama’s decision to close the detention center was very well received by this Chinese Muslim of Uyghur ethnicity, sheltered now in Albania, who assured that “the sooner they close Guantanamo, the better."

Obama’s Spending Programme

January 31, 2009 // The Times - U.K.

The developed world looks to the U.S. to counteract recession.

Obama Magic Unlikely To Work With India

January 31, 2009 // The Japan Times - Japan

While the rest of the world swoons over the new U.S. president, India is conspicuous by the discomfort that the new political dispensation is generating in the corridors of power in New Delhi.

What’s the Point of Talking to Iran and Syria?

January 31, 2009 // Ya Libnan - Lebanon

Test for Obama on Protectionism

January 31, 2009 // Toronto Star - Canada

Web Newspapers in an Advertising Crisis: Is Micropayments A Solution?

January 31, 2009 // La Repubblica - Italy - Italian

They call it the “Great Online Ad Slow Down,” the large advertising slowdown on the web. For newspapers that were looking at this as revenue to monetize their online presence, this represents more trouble in the era of free content distributed on the Internet. But luckily for them, someone had the presence of [Read more]

How To Be Obama

January 31, 2009 // Financial Times - Deutschland - Germany - German

“I’m going to do it!” cried my colleague, Schnabel. “What,” I asked. “Be the German Obama,” Schnabel said. He had just read somewhere that in a “Stern” Magazine survey, three out of four Germans thought a politician like Obama would be good for Germany. “It’s just as well that you’re doing [Read more]

Obama’s Implacable Opposition

January 31, 2009 // die Zeit - Germany - German

Tax money used to improve infrastructure, to build new roads and repair schools, for early childhood development and health care, to develop alternative energy sources and public transportation was and still is to them an expression of liberal wastefulness and therefore the work of Satan.

Obama: Keeping an Eye on Iraqi Voters

January 31, 2009 // Frankfurter Rundschau - Germany - German

It was one of Obama’s biggest campaign promises: withdrawal of “combat forces” from Iraq within 16 months. He promised to give the Pentagon that new mission on his first day in office: one to two brigades would be withdrawn every month. He formulated that policy when Iraq was still a bloody battlefield [Read more]

Bush’s Foreign Policy Legacy

January 31, 2009 // Caijing - China - Mandarin Chinese

America has, for eight years, systematically violated international norms and its own deeply held liberal values.

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