Posts Tagged ‘Al Gore’

Video : What is Nation Building?

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, Twitter on 24 January 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Al Gore, Andrew Mack, Bosnia, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Council on Foreign Relations, failed states, George W. Bush, Germany, Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Marshall Plan, Max Boot, Nation Building, Richard Roth, Simon Fraser University, Somalia with no comments

Christiane Amanpour posed the question of whether or not the United States should engage in a nation-building plan in Haiti on her Twitter account. The comments on her Blog entry continue in the same vein of past nation-building discussions. With the current state of the U.S. economy many wonder what the economic benefit to the [...]

The Green Revolution is About More Than Twitter

In citizenship, Crime, fame, History, Internet, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Twitter on 7 December 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Al Gore, allah hu akbar, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Democracy, Gaza, George W. Bush, Green Revolution, Imperialism, International Reporting, Iran, Iranian election, Israel, Kai Hafez, Karl Von Clausewitz, Lebanon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Palestine, Robin Brown, Spinning the War, Tehran, The Myth of Globalization, Twitter, war on terror, Zionism with 1 comment

In ‘Spinning the War: Political Communications, Information Operations and Public Diplomacy in the War on Terrorism’, Robin Brown refers to a quote from Karl Von Clausewitz that perfectly embodies both the Brown and Kai Hafez (“International Reporting”) pieces on global media “War is nothing more than the continuation of politics“. As both pieces prove, much [...]

Video : Madonna Shows Footage of Iranian Election Protests in Concert

In Art, fame, Music, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, War on 10 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Al Gore, Dalai Lama, Democracy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Green Revolution, Hung Up, Iran, Iranian election, Madonna, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Michael Moore, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Montage, Mother Theresa, Mousavi, protest, Sea of Green, Sticky & Sweet, Tehran, Tour, Video, Where's My Vote, Youtube with no comments

Yes, she really did just compare Michael Moore to Al Gore, the Dalai Lama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, and the protesters on the streets of Iran: Madonna “where‘s my vote” [Twitter]

Yahoo! Music : Grammys Exist in Bubble

In Internet, Music, News, Opinion on 9 February 2009 tagged 2009 Grammy Awards, Al Gore, Album of the Year, Alison Krauss, An Inconvenient Truth, Barack Obama, Bono, Bubble, Economy, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, River, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Sheryl Crow, Will.I.Am, Yahoo! Music with no comments

I didn’t actually watch the entire telecast all the way through because I have come to learn that award shows are never worth their hype, but Yahoo! Music makes an interesting observation about the lack of commentary at a gathering of musical artists during one of the worst economic downturns in the history of the [...]

What the Hell Happened? Esquire’s Timeline of Bush Years

In Uncategorized on 16 January 2009 tagged Abu Ghraib, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Al Gore, al-Askari Mosque, Benazir Bhutto, Daniel Pearl, Deep Throat, donald rumsfeld, Enron, Esquire, George W. Bush, Hand recount, he Office of Homeland Security, Iraq, Johnny Michael Spann, Mark Felt, Pervez Musharraf, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, The PATRIOT Act, Tom DeLay, war on terror with no comments

Tonight, George W. Bush made his final address to the nation and to commemorate that occasion Esquire magazine has put together a timeline of the major events of the last 8 years: 2000 December 13: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida recount, handing the presidency to George W. Bush. The Dow closes at 10,794. [...]