Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Barack Obama has quite a worldwide following. He's got vocal supporters as far away as Gaza City and as close as Canada. From our northern neighbors, first a serious comment: these young Canadians say Obama's appeal is all about international relations:
And next something silly: this old-timey song pays tribute with ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
[Larsz / Flickr]
Genevieve Sponsler caught this post in her daily trolling of Voices without Votes (a very cool site that tracks foreign opinion about Campaign 08). In it, a South African expat living in Ireland comments on the style and effectiveness of the three remaining candidates' websites. Highest points go ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
[jack dorsey / Flickr]
Things aren't so different, it seems, from Romeo and Juliette's day, when names meant everything. Barack Obama detractors have used his middle name -- Hussein -- to imply falsely that he's a Muslim. More recently, though, Obama's name has been attracting positive attention.
Not too long ago, Juan ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Whether or not you believe China's trajectory puts it on track to rival the US as a world power, there's no question that we're bound together economically. It's natural that Chinese should take an interest in the US election; we in turn might want to know what they make of ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Iraqi refugees in Syria [James Gordon / Flickr]
Iraqi Kurdish woman [James Gordon / Flickr]
Global Voices, which highlights bloggers from around the world, has developed a very cool election-08 project called Voices Without Votes. Its goal is a close cousin of ours: it focuses on citizen media created by non-Americans about ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
At the US-Islamic World Form [josholalia / Flickr]
The blogger Abu Aardvark -- aka Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert and political-science professor at George Washington University -- was recently at the Brookings Institution's US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. He reports that the attention paid to Iraq paled in comparison ...
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