Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Election Review

The Election Review


End of US Wars: ‘Rebalance’ of US national security priorities

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:37 PM PDT

Carlo Munoz With the war in Iraq over and combat operations winding down in Afghanistan, the United States can now shift focus to other national security priorities around the world, Vice President Biden said on Saturday. "Winding down these longs wars has enabled us to replace and rebalance our foreign policy,” Biden said during his commencement [...]

Redefining the Arab Spring: Is chaos overtaking revolution?

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:34 PM PDT

Ramzy Baroud The age of revolutionary romance is over. Various Arab countries are now facing hard truths. Millions of Arabs merely want to live with a semblance of dignity, free from tyranny and continuous anxiety over the future. This unromantic reality also includes outside 'players', whose presence is of no positive value to genuine revolutionary [...]

Is this the future of Oz politics?

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:31 PM PDT

Ben Eltham The Thomson scandal is now such a mess it can only be solved by the courts. But our vicious parliament has trashed the presumption of innocence in a race to the bottom. The Craig Thomson affair can't be good for Australian democracy. The ongoing scandal is steadily degenerating. Once a fairly obscure affair to [...]

Racist mob, incited by Israeli leaders, attacks African refugees in Tel Aviv

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:26 PM PDT

David Harris-Gershon An Israeli mob in Tel Aviv burns garbage and sings, “The people want the Africans to be burned.” Southern Tel Aviv is home to a number of blighted and struggling neighborhoods – areas where Israel's income inequalities and economic disparities are acutely on display in the shadow of the city's high rises. And [...]

UK set for historic libel reform

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:13 PM PDT

Borja Bergareche The judicial Law Lords await the Queen’s speech to lawmakers in London May 9, when libel reform was part of the government legislative agenda introduced by the monarch. New libel legislation proposed by the British government has been met with general approval by reform campaigners, who will now train their sights on further strengthening [...]

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