2008 | Watching America

Lebanon: Obama: A New Page inU.S. Middle East Policy,Or Just the Next One?

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in Daily Star

U.A.E.: Israel Makes Obama’sTask Difficult to Achieve

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in Khaleej Times

Lebanon: Expensive Gifts…From Arab Rulers

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in Dar Al Hayat

Egypt: Dangerous Games

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in The Middle East Times

France: The World ExpectsMuch of Obama

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in Le Figaro

"Obama’s origins and past provide hopes for a new approach to the Mideast crisis."

Spain: Obama, Horizon of Change

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in El Mundo

The victory of Barack Obama, thus, a new proof of Hannah Arendt’s idea that politics have the capacity to produce new beginnings, the idea that politics permit human societies to begin anew

Cuba: “The Dollar: Collapse and Alternative”

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in El Economista de Cuba

Kenya: Let Us Break the”Curse” in New Year

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in The Standard

Many black people in the United States believe they are cursed.

Bangladesh: U.S., Japan Hail Bangladesh Elections

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in The Daily Star

China: Better Sino-U.S. Ties in Both Nations’ Interest

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in China Daily

India: Getting Banks to Lend

Robin Koerner - December 31, 2008. Published in The Hindu

To say that the current global crisis might abate if only banks resumed their traditional function of lending to business and industry might sound too simplistic. Yet it is true.

Jordan: To Stop the Crimes

Robin Koerner - December 30, 2008. Published in Jordan Times

Israel will never heed the international calls to end its onslaught on Gaza Strip as long as the US maintains that the Jewish state is right in defending itself.

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