Washington Post US president sets Afghan targetBBC NewsThe increasingly deadly conflict in Afghanistan is a “serious fight” but one essential for the future stability of the country, the US president says. Insisting that US and allied troops have pushed back the Taliban, Barack Obama said the immediate …UK pledges equipment to troops in AfghanistanReutersParents of soldiers [...]

Britain could cut nuclear weapons: Brown (AFP via Yahoo! News) Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain could reduce its nuclear arsenal as part of a global disarmament deal to persuade Iran and North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, reports said. British PM says Libya offers nuclear lesson to world (AFP via Yahoo! News) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that Libya’s renunciation of weapons of mass destruction offered an “important lesson” amid fears over North Korea and Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The Independent An Afghan law which legalised rae has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex. President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage. President Barack Obama described it as “abhorrent”, Gordon Brown said Britain would “not tolerate” it, and other Nato countries threatened to withdraw their troops unless the legislation was drastically re-written.

We have been witnessing over the past couple of months a back and forth between Democrats and some Republicans in Congress who want to know what the CIA has been hiding from them and the administration and most Republicans who want to keep the CIA’s activities secret. The President seems to want to keep the prerogatives of the Executive without oversight as the Bush Administration preferred. They seem to have become enamoured with the Dark Side as Cheney out it back in in the days just after 9-11 when many in the country felt that the sky was literally falling on our heads.

News editors were working late into the night trying to figure out how to add a “-gate” suffix to the “scandal” that occurred during a photo op with junior G-8 delegates, President of the United States Barack Obama, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “Bootygate?” How about “Baby got Barackgate?” Or “The girl from Ipanema-gate?” Maybe “Junior G-8 Delegate…gate?”[...] Read more!

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AP – President Barack Obama says he hopes his family’s tour of a former slave fortress on the coast of Ghana shows his daughters that history can take very cruel turns.

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Obama’s Africa bond more personal than policy – Politico – dailyafrican.com 07/11/2009 Obama’s Africa bond more personal than policy Politico Photo: AP ACCRA, Ghana — To many of his African listeners, he came not as a finger-wagging outsider but as a deeply disappointed son of Africa – giving … and more » Posts about Politico as of July 11, 2009 – thedailyparr.com 07/11/2009 Obama Says Economic Stimulus Plan Worked as Intended – Bloomberg – recession-solution.net

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