Washington: As Mr. Voinovich’s refusal to support Mr. Bolton’s nomination demonstrates, «the vanishing center» — as another centrist Republican, Senator Olympia J. Snowe of 2_kommentare, often says — can still play a powerful role. There are just four core centrists in the Senate, Mr. Chafee, Ms. Collins, Ms. Snowe and Mr. Specter. Out of 44 […]
Teheran: European officials notified Iran for the first time yesterday that they will walk away from two years of talks and sign on to a Bush administration strategy for punitive measures against Tehran if it makes good on threats to resume nuclear work in coming days. In a sharply worded letter to Hassan Rouhani, the […]
Journalister og mediene holder dyre seminarer, hvor de skal lære mer. Hvorfor invitererer de da mennesker som kun bekrefter deres fordommer? Jeg tenker på SKUP-konferansen på Gardermoen, hvor en av gjestene var Gilligan, BBC-reporteren som påsto at Blair-regjeringen sexet opp en rapport om Saddam og WMD. Det hjelper ikke at Hutton-rapporten avslørte at Gilligan løy; […]
Dagens glede: klipp fra BBCs intervju med canadiske Irshad Manji, forfatter av boken «The Trouble with islam». Hun var i Norge, den er utkommet her, men siden er det blitt stille. Dama er et fyrverkeri av energi og en verball foss. I ett ord, hva er galt med islam, ble hun spurt. -Literalisme, svarte hun. […]
David Aaronovitch slutter som kommentator i the Guardian. Han hektet det på som en opplysning til leserne i siste innlegg. Aaronovitch gir ingen begrunnelse. Han er blitt stående mer alene i avisen de senere år. De moteriktige antiamerikanske meningene dominerer. Det er synd, synd for Guardian, synd for leserne som hadde trengt Aaronovitch skarpe blikk. […]
TV is a killer: Knut Olsen er Norges beste TV-journalist. Han holder tråden, og kommunikasjonen. Men som SMS’erne indikerte: det går i samme dur, man blir litt kei. Som i enhver interessant samtale vil den svinge; på et tidspunkt på utspørreren tore å by på seg selv, være litt personlig, gå inn i en ekte […]
Pakistan: THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as «a critical victory in the war on terror». According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as […]
«I was thinking back on the ambitions of the tyrants. The (Soviet) Red Army was put together by Stalin…It marched across many territories, conquering and defeating fascism but also sowing fear and trembling in the hearts of civilians. My feeling was: Thank God it’s over, it was 60 years ago. «My gesture of coming here […]
Ihren Gast Bush hingegen ehrte sie nicht nur als »Einzelkämpfer für die Freiheit in der Welt« mit dem höchsten Orden des Landes. In einer ungewöhnlichen Geste kletterte sie bei Bushs Ankunft in Riga sogar an Bord des Präsidentenjets Air Force One, um die Besucher persönlich auf den lettischen Boden zu geleiten. Latvias president ønsker president […]
Paris: French police have arrested a 22-year-old Chinese student for alleged industrial espionage while working at Valeo, the car parts manufacturer, casting a shadow over this week’s visit to Paris by China’s trade minister. Li Li is being held in custody after police raided her house on Friday and found three computers and two hard […]
