Bernard Henri-Lévy skriver om Amerika av i dag for The Atlantic. «Over the course of six months in 2004 Henri-Lévy made an extensive series of travels around the United States, and the first of his accounts will appear this spring, with many others to follow throughout the year.»
Beijing Leaders Speak of Force to Keep Taiwan ‘Chinese’ China’s leaders introduced a bill on Tuesday that would effectively pre-authorize military action if Taiwan took concrete steps toward formal independence, a move American officials have said they fear could increase prospects for cross-strait conflict. The legislation specifies that any changes in Taiwan’s Constitution seeking to […]
More young people have voted in reality television shows than are likely to vote at the next general election, according to a YouGov survey for The Telegraph.
Dansk film. Apparatet rundt politikerne av informasjonsfolk og såkalte spin doctors blir ifølge Krause-Kjær stadig mer profesjonelt. – I takt med at politikerne og apparatet deres er blitt profesjonalisert, burde også motkreftene fått en tilsvarende kvalitativ opprusting. Det motsatte har skjedd, sier Krause-Kjær. – Det er blitt kuttet kraftig i satsingen på den politiske journalistikken. […]
Kashmir-terror: British police charged two men and a woman on Saturday with a plot to fund terrorism and said one of them belonged to a banned Kashmiri militant group based in Pakistan. Britain’s Metropolitan Police said Mohammed Ajmal Khan, 30, Frzana Khan, 41, and Palvinder Singh, 29, had all been charged with conspiracy to provide […]
«But Bashar Assad will kill us one by one and will use Hizbollah to the end to keep Lebanon. Every inch he moves from Beirut means he loses his prestige and maybe even his position in Damascus. Do you think he’s going to leave that easily?» The winds of change
4.02: Picks of the day: Bilder man ikke glemmer: to hutuer som står frem på Dagsrevyen og ber om at de uberettigede anklagene mot dem om folkemord-forbrytelser, blir avsannet. Journalistene er bevisstløse. Den ene sier at det er kjent at regjeringen til Kagame fabrikere bevis for å ramme motstandere. Virkelig? Hadde Kagame behov for å […]
Sgrena-skudd: Sunn fornuft tilsier at når senior-sikkerhetsagenter ledsager et frigitt gissel fra fangenskap til frihet, så har de gitt beskjed om reiserute på forhånd. Det er hva Giuliana Sgrena selv sier: Sgrena, however, said the car was not travelling at high speed and U.S. officials had been alerted in advance of their passage. Nå anklager […]
Ikke bare Gongadze: Several thousand mourners turned out in Azerbaijan on Friday to bury a murdered investigative journalist and an opposition leader gave the oil-rich country’s dynastic ruler two weeks to find his killers or resign. Elmar Huseinov, a 38-year-old magazine editor and outspoken critic of the elite was shot dead on Wednesday, prompting public […]
Tungtvannsfabrikk i Iran nesten ferdig: Satelittbilder viser at tungtvannsfabrikken Iran bygger i Arak, snart er ferdig. Det er den kommersielle aktøren DigitalGlobe som har tatt bildene, som er analysert for Reuters av Institute for Science and International Security. Det var allment antatt at det var et stykke tid igjen før fabrikken ville stå ferdig. Den […]
