The UK should stop using the term “special relationship” to describe its alliance with the US, Sir John Major says, arguing it is outdated and “patronising”.
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Major warns over UK-US alliance
Nicaraguans are set to go to the polls to elect a president, with incumbent Daniel Ortega seen as a favourite to secure another term in office.
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Ortega eyes Nicaragua re-election
Hawaii’s junior senator, 86, will not run for another term in 2012.
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The Caucus: Senator Akaka Won’t Run Again
Voters began to pour into poll stations in elections that are expected to give Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s president for the past 25 years, yet another term.
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Ugandans Vote in Largely Peaceful Elections
Labour will focus on delivery if it wins another term at May’s assembly elections, Carwyn Jones will say later.
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Labour to reveal policy pledges
As President Obama begins the second half of his term with a campaign for “jobs and competitiveness,” we would do well to consider how he might achieve these worthy goals. It is jobs that matter most to the vast majority of Americans, and unemployment remains at 9.4 percent – about double its pre-recession level. This is a terrible punishment to inflict on millions of Americans who did nothing to deserve it. read more
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Yes, There Are Ways to Reduce Unemployment and Revive the Economy
Angry demonstrations against heads of state: not just in the Middle East anymore. Protesters have taken to the streets of Port-au-Prince after Haitian President Ren
Cairo – President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt said he would not run for another term as president of Egypt. His decision came after President Obama told the embattled president of Egypt, that he should not run for another term in elections scheduled for the fall, effectively withdrawing American support for its closest Arab ally, according to American diplomats in Cairo and Washington. Mr. Mubarak issued the statement on Tuesday evening, saying it was necessary for the stbility of the nation. read more
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Mubarak Says He Won’t Run for President Again
On Thursday, December 16, the term “winter soldier” took on special meaning. Blanketed by snow flurries and enduring freezing temperatures, several hundred military veterans and peace activists gathered in the nation’s capital to stage a dramatic political protest. As they have done many times since George W. Bush announced the military attack of Afghanistan in 2001, concerned citizens from across the country traveled to Washington, calling for an end to US military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as drone attacks on Pakistan and Yemen. read more
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Winter Soldiers Confront the White House: Mass Arrests as They Put Their Bodies on the Line for Peace
Politics and honesty never went well together anyway. Politifact, the Florida-based nonpartisan fact-checking group called the term “government takeover of health care” its lie of the year. Careful not to dissect the law itself, the group noted that…
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Politifact Names ‘Lie of the Year’
Obama is taking cues from the Great Triangulator.
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A third Clinton term?
Laurent Gbagbo was sworn in today for another term as president of the Ivory Coast, despite international concerns about whether he rightfully won a recent runoff.
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Ivory Coast president sworn in
In 1946, a year after the end of World War II, George Orwell had already buried Hitler, at least linguistically, in his famous essay ” Politics and the English Language “: “Fascism has no meaning now except so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” Orwell’s point is not just that the word fascism was out of vogue, that the term was so commonly used as to render it hopelessly meaningless, read more
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Let’s Bury Hitler
Yes, There Are Ways to Reduce Unemployment and Revive the Economy
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
