Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Damage Control

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Muller

Not entirely unprecedented, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad interfered today with yesterday’s verdict of the Revolutionary Court sending Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to jail for 8 years for charges of espionage. In his letter to Tehran’s prosecutor he interestingly also mentioned … Continue reading →

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Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Muller

It is generally hold that the former Bush administration and its allies had lost the war in Iraq on the day when the pictures from the Abu Ghuraib prison in Baghdad had been aired. It was exactly five years ago: … Continue reading →

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The Anointed

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Muller

The messianic demeanor of the presidential hopeful Barack Obama in his “The World that Stands as One” at Berlin’s Victory Column in July 2008 in front of a crowd of 200’000 rejoicing Germans had been criticized both in the US as … Continue reading →

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The War is Over

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Muller

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared today that the new Administration in Washington will no longer use the term ‘War on Terrorism’. I have Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988) in mind using the disbelieving voice of an American Jew for … Continue reading →

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Shimon Peres

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Muller

The Israeli President [1] has joint the felicitators around Barack Obama sending the people of Iran New Year greetings. In an audio message, the 1994 Nobel laureate (with PLO leader Yasser Arafat) doesn’t conceal, however, his deep antipathy for the … Continue reading →

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