Posts Tagged ‘Arizona’

Obama’s Tucson Address, a Benchmark?

In Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics on 13 January 2011 tagged Al Jazeera English, Alaska, Arizona, Gabby Giffords, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner, John Roll, Patty Culhane, Safeway, Sarah Palin, tea party, Tucson with no comments

Speaking on the impact of U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama’s address at a eulogy for the victims of 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner‘s shooting at a Safeway in Tucson last week, Al Jazeera English’s Patty Culhane said: “From here on out I think everything he does will be measured by the pundits against this incredible speech [...]

Without Clear Proof Palin Can’t be Implicated in Giffords’ Shooting

In Crime, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter on 9 January 2011 tagged Alaska, Arizona, Charles Manson, CNN, Detroit Free Press, Gabrielle Giffords, Mike Thompson, Najibullah Zazi, Safeway, Sarah Palin, tea party, Tuscon, Washington Post with no comments

After 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six other people at a Tucson Safeway, many in the Blogosphere and Twitterverse began to point to this image Sarah Palin had posted on her Facebook Page in March to somehow implicate Palin’s bad taste and badass posturing in Giffords’ attack. The 22-year-old has [...]

What Sharron Angle Doesn’t Know DOES Hurt Her

In News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, religion on 7 October 2010 tagged Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law SB1070, Dearborn, Frankford, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Michigan, SB1070, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Sharia, Sharia Law, Sharron Angle, Texas with no comments

Speaking to a crowd at a rally in Mesquite, Nevada (a city not far from Arizona), Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle made a bizarre statement about some sort of perceived Muslim takeover of Michigan and Texas: “My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional [...]

Video : Female Beekeepers of Ghazni, Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, Opinion, Politics, TV, War on 6 September 2010 tagged Arizona, Beekeeping, Ghazni, Kabul, Link TV, Paula Lerner, Project Artemis, taliban, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Unifem, Zainularab Miri with no comments

The voiceover is a little corny and the overall video is definitely a plug for the Thunderbird School of Global Management, but it’s always good to see the stories of the actual people of Afghan people told in Western media. You hear that Todd Pitman? “A leader is someone who is at the service of [...]

Hillary Clinton on Arizona’s SB1070 : Justice Department Will Sue

In News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, TV on 18 June 2010 tagged Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law SB1070, Department of Justice, Department of State, Ecuador TV, Eric Holder Jr, Jan Brewer, Video with no comments

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently appeared on Ecuador’s public service station Ecuador TV (started with funding by the Economic and Social Development Bank of Venezuela), where she was asked about Arizona’s racist SB1070. According to the Secretary of State, the Department of Justice will seek a lawsuit against the state of Arizona’s racist [...]