The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesThe Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAnalyzes issues of liberal concern and gives readers a digest of what is reported in over forty newspapers world-wide to engage them in critical thinking issues. Articles
Nobody Asked Me But,
2008-05-18 08:38:00 Nobody Asked Me But, Have you notinced during the primary campaign no one mentioned the names of Cheney and Rumsfeld even though they were chief architects of the Iraq invasion? I go for days not seing a military uniform in the streets. This is definitely not WWII, the Korean War or the war in Vietnam. Is it ...
General Than Shwe-Modern Hitler?
2008-05-17 14:24:00 To the world he is a classic paranoid dictator, to his victims, a sadistic tyrant, and to himself a hero in the fight to prevent his nation from being controlled by foreigners. As thousands of his countrymen fought hunger and thirst and the devastation caused by the cyclone, Geneeral Shwe ordered his military to ...
Anti-Semitism Spreads Among German Muslims
2008-05-17 14:03:00 Alhough most German Muslims have not shown any major interest or support for islamic militants, they are more prone to tap into the spread of anti-Jewish feeling within their country. Farfur is a carbn copy of the Walt Disney Mickey Mouse character but he spouts anti-Jewish feeling as part of the comedy associated with the ... More About: Anti
Bush Seeks Oil Help From Saudi Arabia
2008-05-17 09:50:00 Once again, President Bush attempted to persuade the King of Arabia to pump out more oil in order to lower prices and once again nothing happened except an exchange of pleasantries. Bush tried to sweeten the request by including promises to help Saudi Arabia develop civilian nuclear power and to protect those facilities from attack. ...
EU Toughens Car Standards
2008-05-17 09:32:00 The European Union is preparing to introduce tough new rules governing car advertisements whch will require ncluding in a conspicuou manner and in easy to understand information, the gas consumption and mileage. These rules are consisten with procedures that will compel alchol, tobacco and food products to provide information about health risks entailed in consuming ...
Danish Politicians Argue Over Who Is Anti-Muslim
2008-05-17 09:31:00 Kristian Dahl of the Danish People’s Party sent out a press release saying he regetted his coment the previous day that the party was “anti-Muslim.” He noted, “if I had to do it over I would have chosen a different ways of saying it.” He was commenting after Birthe Ronn Hombech, of the Liberal Party, ... More About: Politics , Islam , Europe , Muslims , Human Rights
Myanmar Military Junta Continues Blocking Aid
2008-05-17 09:25:00 Thailand was able to send a medical team into Burma on the 14th day of a disaster that has had scant impact on the thinking of the ruling military junta. The Myanmar government insists the death total is about 43,000 but UN estimates range as high as 130,000. The Burmese government is only using six ... More About: World News
India Jolted By Chinese Nuclear Bases
2008-05-17 09:18:00 The India n Defense establshment was shocked by satellite pictures which reveal the existence of a large area in central China which contains 58 launch pads for nuclear-capable missiles which appartently target north India and south Russia. This news comes shortly after the discovery of the incredible extent of China’s underground nuclear submarine base at ... More About: Politics , Military , Human Rights
Catch Them Before Action Assuming They Have Plan
2008-05-17 09:07:00 Australian pollice raided two homes in Sydney allegedly containing two men who were planning or maybe planning or the police assumed were planning some terrorist action. The men were believed to have extreme “Islamic views” which undoubtedly made them targets of a police search for terrorists. The police have been monitoring the two men for ... More About: Politics , Australia , Human Rights , Catch , Multicultural
Charity In Speech, Money In Reality!
2008-05-17 09:07:00 Great Britain is launching over the coming several years, a large effort to assist poorer nations in their work to deal with climate change. Nearly $2 Billion will be given out to countries experiencing severe droughts, storms and rising sea levels. These nations assumed the money was a grant, but they apparently did not look ... More About: World News , Human Rights , Social Justice
Deployment System In Tatters
2008-05-17 09:06:00 One of the tragedies of the invasion of Iraq has ben the destruction of the deployment system for the American armed forces. There was a time when a soldier knew if he/she was going oversease for a year, he/she would be able to spend a year at least back in the states with family. Today, ... More About: World News
President Medvedev Pledges Missile Defense
2008-05-16 14:42:00 President Dimitry Medvedev made his first trip to inspect missile defense systems in his nation, a visit that underscored the strategic role of nuclear arms in the country’s assertive world policy. The Russian government has been concerned over the Bush plan to establish missile bases in Pland and the Czech Republic which supposedly are to ...
President Chavez Linked To Rebels
2008-05-16 14:28:00 President Hugo Chavez is confronted with serious allegations that his administration worked with Clombian guerrillas. Interpol examined laptops and concluded they belonged to the forces of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a group that Chavez has supported in many ways, but there is now sufficient evidence the support went beyond just words. Chavez immediately ... More About: Politics , Peace , World News , Human Rights , War
Arab League Mediators Mediate Lebanon Crisis
2008-05-16 09:54:00 Arab League mediators announced a deal on Thursday to end Lebanon’s worse internal fighting since the civil war which began when the US backed government challenged Hizbullah. The opposing sides met in Qatar and finally resolved their issues — for the moment. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad announced, “We declare an agreement sponsored by the ... More About: Politics , Islam , Peace , Military , World News
Iran And West Duel Over Nuclear Proposals
2008-05-16 09:39:00 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made clear his nation would not curtail its right to have a nuclear program regardless of what western nations offer his country. He promised the world, “we have prepared a package which will soon be offered” in regard to the issue of nuclear development in Iran. Six world powers agreed on May ...
VA Email? Don?t Diagnose PTSD!
2008-05-16 09:38:00 The continuing saga of the Bush administration leadership in the Veterans Administration revealed evidence there was an attempt to alter the diagnosis of veterans in order to save money. Veterans diagnosed with PTSD are eligible for health benefits, and, in some cases, disability retirement pay. According to Brandon Friedman, of the VoteVets.org, there is a ... More About: Politics , United States , Military , Republicans , Iraq War
Saudi Arabia Urged To Suspend Blasphemy Setence
2008-05-16 09:36:00 Human Rights Watch asked the government of Saudi Arabia to dismiss a death sentence against a Turkish barber who was convicted of “cursing the name of God” while engaged in an angry argument with a man he thought was his friend. Sarah Leah Whitson, the group’s Middle East director, said: “The charges, conviction, and sentence ... More About: Blasphemy
Bush Spouts Politics Of Fear In Israel
2008-05-16 09:20:00 President George Bush was invited to speak before the Knesset of Israel on a joyous occasion to mark the nation’s 60th birthday, but he could not help using this occasion in order to play political games. He made clear that Barack Obama’s intention to sit down and discuss issues with leaders, including the president of ...
US Urges China Its Military Build-Up Is Wrong
2008-05-16 09:17:00 The United States military budget is greater than military budgets of the entire world, but the Bush administration feels no hesitation giving lectures to other nations about their military build-ups. John Negroponte, Deputy Under Secretary of State, told the Chinese government it should not be focusing military weapons at Taiwan since the only result ... More About: China , World News , Russia , Wrong
Afghan Death Squads Take Orders From Foreigners
2008-05-16 09:08:00 Profesor Philip Alson, the UN sspecial rapporteur on illegal killings, belives secret Afghan death squads are operating under the orders of foreign intelligence agencies and they are not frightened by the police or members of the armed forces. Alston said the attacks were beyond the legitimate military chains of command and they were “completely unacceptable” ...
Myanamr Aid Still Blocked By Military Junta
2008-05-16 09:06:00 A cyclone has killed over 100,000 people in their nation and left over one million displaced but the military junta which has ruled Myanmar with an iron fist for forty years is in a state of happiness because their new constitution received 92.4% of the vote. As the generals focused on getting out the vote, ... More About: Politics , Peace , Asia , Human Rights , Social Justice
New China Moves Quickly On Disaster Relief
2008-05-16 09:05:00 In the days of rigid communist rule in China, a disaster was anything but a topic to be publicly discussed. The ordinary response, as in the famous Soviet Union nuclear disaster, was to hush things up and allow people impacted by the calamity to suffer in silence. The current Chinese Communist leadership has taken an ... More About: World News
Xenophic Violence Spreads In South Africa
2008-05-16 09:03:00 South African police fired rubber bullets on Thursday to quell anti-foreign violence that has rattled officials and raised fears of wider clashes in the nation’s restive townships. There is considerable unemployment in South Africa and the presence of refugees from other African nations who are seeking work has aroused anger among many sectors of ...
California Supreme Court Backs Gay Rights
2008-05-16 09:00:00 California’s Supreme Court struck a blow for the rights of gays and lesbians by ruling the state ban on same sex marriages was unconstitutonal. “Our state now reognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person, and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon ... More About: Politics , Peace , World News , Human Rights , Social Justice
Mugabe Rearranges Zimbabwe Law
2008-05-15 17:00:00 The nation of Zimbabwe continues to suffer from a president who makes up laws as he goes along his merry way to maintain power are any cost to the people of his country. First, presidential election results were delayed several weeks in order to provide opportunities for his cronies to arrange the vote so that ... More About: Politics , Peace , World News , Human Rights
Muslim GI Claims Army Bigotry
2008-05-15 16:46:00 A Muslim soldier and his wife in North Carolina are upset their infant son’s body was subject an autopsy after his sudden death which is in contradiction to Muslim religious practice. Doctors suspected sudden infant death symdrome and wanted an autopsy to confirm their diagnosis. Pfc. Eli Agee has contactd the Miiltary Religious Freedom Foundatin ... More About: Politics , Religion , Islam , United States , Military
Bush Speaks On Anniversaries Of Two Events
2008-05-15 16:32:00 President Bush spoke to the Israel Knesset of his desire to crush al-Qaida, Hamas, and Hizbullah and emphasized the American people stood by their Israel ally in the fight for peace and ending terrorism. He mocked those who say America would benefit by cutting ties with Israel. “This is a tired argument that buys ...
UN Begs Burma Leaders To Accept Help
2008-05-15 16:10:00 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon pleaded with the military junta of Burma to please allow aid workers and supplies into their country in order to help those still suffering almost two weeks after a devastating cyclone hit the nation. “We urge the(Burmese) authorities to make a radical change in this area to allow international staff ... More About: Politics , Peace , Asia , Human Rights , War
Islamic Militants Boast Of Blasting Jaipur
2008-05-15 15:56:00 A little-known Islam ic miltant group took credit for the series of bomb blasts in the India n city of Jaipur which cost the llives of 63 people and lest dozens wounded. The Indian Mujahideen emailed video clips of a bicyle wich was packed with explosives that were set off at one of half a dozen ... More About: Politics , Peace , Asia
Brazilian Rainforest Will Be Gone Says Gone Minister
More articles from this author:2008-05-15 15:45:00 Marina Silva, Minister of Evnironment in the Brazil ian government, has finally decided she is unable to succeed in her battle to save the rainforest and will depart her position. In a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Ms. Silva said her efforts to protect the rainforest were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies. ... More About: Politics , World News , Human Rights , Social Justice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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