Category: India
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 26, 2009 in Afghanistan, Africa, Americas: North-Central-South, Asia, Bill Clinton, China, Current Affairs, Europe, European Union, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, George Mitchell, India, Iran, Iraq, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Media, Print, New York Times, Obamaisms, President Barack Obama, Richard Holbrooke, Russia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, Washington Post, Women and Children, World | 37 Comments
I have thought what I would write about after my post on my beloved Sweetie (and I have been out of town helping to get my mom’s new Assisted Living unit set up for her this weekend). Honestly, I didn’t want to go off on anything or anyone today. Fortunately, thanks to NQ [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 22, 2009 in Current Affairs, Education, Foreign Policy, India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 19 Comments
Oh, you just gotta love that Hillary Clinton. Here is more of her trip in India. Here, she is speaking to 700 university students:
f you don’t have time to watch the video, click on it anyway, and the transcript is available underneath it.
I have company from out of state, so this will be [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 21, 2009 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Foreign Policy, India, Nuclear weapons, Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, State Department Press Briefings | 8 Comments
First, let me apologize for the disheveled organization of this post, since I have a lot of incongruent pincer-like situations on my mind, but — nevertheless — I have been trying to stay up on the latest news coming out of Pakistan because, dammit, it’s so important and because most media aren’t covering it in [...]
By John Batchelor on May 12, 2009 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, India, John Batchelor (author), Pakistan | 2 Comments
The news that Lt. General Stanley McChrystal (three stars) the Special Forces veteran is replacing General David McKiernan (four stars) the AirLand veteran in Afghanistan is one warning light of what I learned from a variety of observers Sunday 10 — that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is not going well and [...]
By SusanUnPC on May 9, 2009 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, India, John Batchelor, John Batchelor (author), Larry Johnson, Media, Radio, Pakistan | 3 Comments
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By SusanUnPC on Apr 24, 2009 in AfPak Border, Asia, CNN, India, Media Handling of Story, Nuclear weapons, Pakistan, Taliban | 40 Comments
The U.S. has spent billions to arm the Pakistani army and police, and contributed thousands of manhours training the troops. Yet the Pakistanis are sending in token police and soldiers to fight the Taliban, and rapidly ceding large areas:
Embedded video from CNN Video
As I write this, the CNN video and transcript aren’t up, so [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 11, 2009 in Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, India, Iraq, Women, Women's Suffrage | 8 Comments
This is a bit of a followup to my post, “Some Celebration,” on the issues women face here and abroad. Once again, H/T to cheneywatch.com for alerting me to this video.
Yesterday, I wrote of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the US. Today, it is India:
By pm317 on Mar 2, 2009 in Current Affairs, India | 57 Comments
Editor’s Note: Since its original posting last Wednesday, this excellent article was completely reworked by its author, and sectioned into two parts. The author wishes you to revisit this article – which the author has poured much effort and time into — and give it your attention. THIS is a viewpoint that we Americans [...]
By Heidi Li on Dec 22, 2008 in Democracy, Feminism, Gender Bias, India, Misogyny, Racism | 87 Comments
[Cross-posted from Heidi Li's Potpourri]
Disagreements about how to end injustice, and specific injustices, are as old as injustice itself. Whether one is considering the injustices of colonialism, racist domination, oppression of women…in each and every one of these areas, those who can agree in broad general principle have often found themselves disagreeing over specifics, including [...]
By Larry Johnson on Nov 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, CIA, Commander in Chief, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, George Bush, India, Iraq, Jihadists, John Brennan, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, State Department | 207 Comments
(Bumped up from yesterday by Bronwyn’s Harbor. Hey, Josh Marshall, since you’re not content being a leading liberal blog owner so now you’re hangin’ with all of Barack Obama’s friends like Bernardine Dohrn — and we dig it because, well, you were never the cool kid in class, but now you see a chance, and [...]
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