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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Hell on Earth
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Posted in Guardian, Military, Police, Politics, Russia, Syria, UK, USA
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Tagged Antonio Guterres, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Donald Trump, Eastern Ghouta, Kosovo, Nato, Pope Francis I, Srebrenica, UN Security Council, Vladimir Putin
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Hacked off by double standards
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Posted in UK, USA
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Tagged Barack Obama, Double standards, espionage, GCHQ, George W.Bush, phone hacking, US National Security Agency
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Epitaph for an American Galba
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Posted in Literature, Politics, USA
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Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Barack Obama, Galba, George W.Bush, Guantánamo, Noam Chomsky, Tacitus
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Ozymandias
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 7 February 2013 “I am Darius, the Great King, King of Kings, King in Persia, … Continue reading →
Posted in Greece, India, Iran, Literature, Politics
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Tagged Barack Obama, Darius, Mt Behistun, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Persia
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That hopey, changey thing
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East is East and West is West
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Posted in China, India, Politics, USA
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Barack Obama, Bo Xilai, De la démocratie en Amérique, Mitt Romney, Mumbai, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, Xi Jinping
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“The greatest nation on earth”
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Posted in Politics, USA
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Tagged audacity of hype, Barack Obama, Chicago, Obama Victory Speech, SEALs, US presidential election 2012
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A plague o’ both your houses!
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Posted in Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Pakistan, Politics, Syria, UK, Uncategorized, USA
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Tagged Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Democrats, George W.Bush, Guantánamo, Habeas Corpus, Miitt Romney, Pasok, Republicans, Syriza, Wall Street
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Rooting for Romney
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Posted in Libya, Military, Russia, Syria, USA
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Tagged Barack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson
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