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Obama hosts muslim business summit
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Aziz Poonawalla
Everyone knew about President Obama’s nuclear summit a couple of weeks ago – arguably the most important, if characteristically boring, contribution to world peace in the past 30 years. But there was another summit this week that didn’t get anywhere near the same attention – The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, which was a promise to…
word cloud and transcript: Obama’s Nobel speech
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Aziz Poonawalla
These are the remarks by President Obama in Oslo, Norway at the acceptance ceremony for his Nobel Peace Prize. Click to enlarge the word cloud – which features “America” quite prominently, interestingly enough. Democracy Arsenal highlights two passages in particular – pointing out that Obama seems to endorse the right of humanitarian intervention by force,…
No, they aren’t serious
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Aziz Poonawalla
The following is the key foreign policy critique made of Obama by Republicans, in this case well-summarized by GOP Representative Mike Pence: On the foreign stage, the American people know that weakness arouses evil. They know that bowing and kowtowing to foreign dictators only diminishes our standing in the world. And they know that standing…
Deserve this! The Nobel Peace Prize Agenda for Obama
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Aziz Poonawalla
President Obama is now a Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. There’s enough in that statement alone to drive rightwing conservatives insane. And insane they certainly are, as others are ably and gleefully documenting. The general gist of the response by the Right is twofold, and predictably schizophrenic: 1. Obama has not accomplished enough in…
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