Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Walter Brasch
By Saleeem Khan, Ph.D.
The violent death of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, is the latest event in a culture of violence that has been steadily spreading in the body politics in Pakistan.
Ms. Bhutto’s assassination took place in Liaqat Park 28 years after the execution in April 1979 of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a democratically [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi
Wow. Another year is coming to an end.
I’m going to be ending this year in the same way that I ended last year (same what and where), with one notable exception. I’ll be working my musical magic on New Year’s Eve, just like I did last year. But, this year, SSG Dizzy will not be [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
Hat Tip to Joe Biden’s site:
Dec. 29: This week on CNN’s News Hour With Jim Lehrer, host Judy Woodruff asked David Brooks of The New York Times, and syndicated columnist Mark Shields, to comment on Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Joe Biden’s remarks on Pakistan.
Here is a quick 50-sec. video clip of the broadcast, with [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The Obama campaign has been on the defensive in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, thanks to some tacky (to say the least) comments from Obama spokesman David Axelrod. Last night Barack Obama attempted to “vigorously” defend Axelrod during a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer.:
As Lynn Sweet reports, the interview didn’t play out to well for [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Parade Magazine’s upcoming edition has an interview with Bhutto that “will be the cover story of PARADE on January 6, 2008.” You can read the interview here.
Bhutto took on many risks in her life, but she will be most remembered as the “first woman to be democratically elected to lead a modern Muslim country.”
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a lot been said on the candidate’s reactions in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on Thursday. There was the huge gaffe from Mike Huckabee that critics have picked apart and then there was Ron Paul blaming America, which went over like a lead balloon with the wingnuts. But the discussion of the day [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2007 by Darrell Prows
Freedom is theoretically possibly without democracy, one supposes. It would have to consist of a benign dictatorship (most likely possible in a historical Monarchy) with all of the shortcomings that that would entail.
Democracy without freedom is another matter altogether. Not only is it conceivable, it is a daily reality if one looks around, and events [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Talk about your political opportunism… The Page reports that David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s top strategist, told reporters today that Hillary Clinton “will not benefit from a renewed conversation about foreign policy in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Pakistan.”
Bhutto’s death will “call into issue the judgment: who’s made the right judgments,” Axelrod said. “Obviously, one of [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
After not paying any attention to the news for days, my vacation is over. I returned home this afternoon, to find that Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto, who was appearing at a political campaign rally, was fired upon at close range by a gunman, and [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
A quick note to readers: I’ll be traveling a bit in the next few days and will post when I can. Before I head out, I wanted to share this speech that John Kerry delivered today on the Bali Climate Change Policy:
John Kerry, who represented the United States Senate last week at the international climate [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi
Ah, I have returned to the blogosphere from what is now my regular weekend musical sabbatical and only the Flying Spaghetti Monster knows how much I’ve missed you guys.
The one thing I wish I missed is the fact that, these days, the great outdoors of Colorado has been colder than Condoleeza Rice! I’ll take an [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The WaPo has an in depth piece on the Bali Climate Change talks and John Kerry’s role representing Congressional Democrats at the talks. Kerry, was the “sole standard-bearer for Congress” at the talks, although “about a dozen senators and House members had planned to attend. The WaPo noted that “most are stuck in Washington dealing with [...]
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