Assassination
Yasser Arafat and when poison ‘kills the president’
Mouth-searing and palate-pleasing narratives about assassinations that have a cunningly secretive nature about them have become all too common in the last 50 years — and non more so than when the victims turn out to be those of great controversy.
By Mohammad I. Aslam | Notebook | Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 4:00 am
Obama’s Drone Wars strain the liberal principles he espoused in 2008
Clara Cullen thinks Obama’s drone strategy is a betrayal of all who supported him. In turn, the silence of all those who voted for “hope” and “change” is worrying; it suggests that the US liberal electorate would rather support Obama, who they perceive as a lesser political evil than his Republican adversaries, than actually questioning the political hypocrisy his foreign policy entails.
By Clara Cullen | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 8 June 2012 at 3:57 am
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