Anger, protests as Tunisian opposition leader shot dead (via AFP) Prominent Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunis on Wednesday, sparking angry protests by his supporters and attacks on offices of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party. President Moncef Marzouki denounced the killing of Belaid, an outspoken critic of his [...]
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Secretary Clinton’s Full Remarks on Benghazi to Senate Foreign Relations Committee [Video Update]
SECRETARY CLINTON’s full remarks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are below. The ARB, the declassified Accountability Review Board Report on Benghazi is now online, as is Secretary Clinton’s letter about the ARB to Senator John Kerry, who has been nominated as her successor, from back in December. Other documents are available as well. Thank [...]
Drudge Takes Biden’s Bait, Gun Nuts Follow
“The Founding Fathers never envisioned Executive Orders being used to restrict our Constitutional rights. We live in a republic, not a dictatorship.” – Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) IT’S REALLY amazing that the Obama administration walked right into the gun nuts’ most primal fear. “The president is going to act. There are executive orders, there’s executive [...]
Top Story: President Obama’s Address to U.N. [Full Remarks]
PRESIDENT OBAMA spoke to the United Nations today, his remarks are below. He began by talking about the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens, emphasizing the work he did in a country he loved. Obama went on to say that the attack in Benghazi was “an attack on America.” The President went further, saying the attack [...]
Hillary’s No
“I think that there will be an election that will elect a woman.” – Secretary Clinton GEORGE WASHINGTON didn’t exactly jump at the chance to lead our nation after being asked either. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that women like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as people like myself, aren’t taking Hillary’s no for an [...]
Hillary’s Close-Up
“We came. We saw. He died.” – Secy. Hillary Clinton, TIME magazine The issue above is slated to hit newsstands on November 7, the day before my book, The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss comes out. I urge you to read this article, which is behind a subscriber wall. It [...]
Sect. Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom
**UPDATED** … In an awkward bit of timing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to deliver a major speech on Internet freedom in Washington on Tuesday just hours after Justice Department lawyers are scheduled to be in federal court a few miles away in the first public courtroom showdown over the probe into WikiLeaks and [...]
Egypt & America Compared on Income Equality
Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni protesters all say that inequality is one of the main reasons they’re protesting. However, the U.S. actually has much greater inequality than in any of those countries. Specifically, the “Gini Coefficient” – the figure economists use to measure inequality – is higher [...]
EGYPT: Al Jazeera and White House Mixed Messaging in the Age of Wikileak Cables, Twitter and Facebook
**UPDATES BELOW** This has been an extraordinary week. What follows is a remarkable story I’ve done my best to unpack and requires a lot of investment on your part. I don’t claim this is perfectly packaged, but I’ve done the very best I can on a story I think is historic, including news late last [...]
Arab Eruptions
…I’m skeptical too. But I found it unsatisfying to settle for such skepticism as I watched the massive demonstrations unfold in Egypt on my Twitter feed while moderating a panel discussion on Tunisia yesterday (I plead guilty). As I’ve been arguing for the last month, something does seem to be happening at a regional level, [...]
Live from D.C., It’s Barack Obama
**UPDATED** Smith said that Obama and the TV news figures enjoyed crisped halibut with pickled South Lawn peppers, compressed avocados, rice with chorizo sausage, and a salad with goat cheese, baby bell peppers, micro basil and grapeseed oil. And for dessert? Warm gingerbread. – Michael Calderone “Date for the prom” is how CNN’s Gloria Borger [...]
Meanwhile, Today in Egypt
**UPDATED** The big news around the sphere is Pres. Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. But not around here, as something serious is brewing in Egypt… and so far no one is covering it, but that won’t last long. Just a few moments ago (6:45 pm EST)… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Protests have brought Cairo to a [...]
Will Pres. Obama Support the U.N. Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlements?
**UPDATED** That’s the million dollar question people are asking, though they’re doing it by saying he “must” support it, because it mirrors his own policies. Though the experts on the region are correct, the U.N. resolution does mirror the Obama administration’s policy, right now Obama is gearing up for 2012 and to say this puts [...]
Ehud Barak Quits Labor, Netanyahu-Lieberman Hardliners Win
From my viewpoint, this picture by Tess Scheflan perfectly encapsulates Ehud Barak’s actions. According to varied reports, Labor is either like Tunisia, “divided into militias,” or an ameba, take your pick. One thing Ehud Barak quitting Labor and forming Atzmaut means is that the hardliners against negotiations with the Palestinians are in charge until we [...]
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