America’s
- The Canadian DND has just released this video of Canadian Special Forces rescuing a Norwegan cargo ship from Somali pirates: Video
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expresses willingness to work with U.S. President Barack Obama to improve relations between the two nations. Video
- Cuba is ‘willing to talk to US’. Video
- Marxist Daniel Ortega compares US border fence to segregation. Video
Europe
- Russian Military recruitment ad. Video
- The new British conservative ‘wonder boy’ Daniel Hannan, speaks to Spanish television about his popularity on the Internet, European economic policy and his relationship with David Cameron. Video
- Backed by funding from British millionaires and former Conservative party activists, a strong anti-Euro movement is growing in the United Kingdom ahead of the EU parliamentary elections. Video
Asia-Pacific
- Concerns over Chinese Military Buildup. Video
- North and South Korea agree to meet. Video
- Fiji moved further to doctatorship. Video
- Iraqi Gays persecuted. Video
- India introduces worlds cheapest car. Video
- Japanese ecomonic woes. Video
- The other Bhutto. Video
- Civil War in Sri Lanka escalates. Video *Warning*
Africa
- South Africa is poised to elect its first Marxist and polygamist as President. Video
- Ethiopian Easter celebration In Jerusalem 2009 (Orthodox calender). Video
- Madonna’s Malawi adoption rejected. Video
- Farms raided as Mugabe incites racial tension. Video
Kristofer Lorelli can be contacted at lorville@rogers.com on Facebook, or Twitter Race42012.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
The Illusions of Obama’s Idealism Abroad
by David Paul Kuhn
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/20/the_illusions_of_obamas_idealism_abroad_96073.html
Obama’s Handshake With Chavez: Outreach or Irresponsibility?
President Takes Heat for Smiling Handshake With Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Other Summit Actions
By JAKE TAPPER and HUMA KHAN
http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=7377931
FNC Video: Cheney Calls On Obama To Release Torture Memos
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/04/20/updated_cheney_calls_on_obama_to_release_torture_memos.html
The Memos Prove We Didn’t Torture
The Red Cross was completely wrong about ‘walling.’
By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. and LEE A. CASEY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124018665408933455.html#printMode
Ankara Shows Its Hand
Turkey’s scheming at the Strasbourg summit proves it doesn’t belong in the European Union.
By Christopher Hitchens
http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2216518
Somali Pirates Form Unholy Alliance with Islamists
Warships have done little to deter Somalia’s pirates. But following the latest spate of hijackings, the West plans to take a more robust approach to protecting shipping. Intelligence agencies are alarmed at the pirates’ increasingly close ties to Islamist groups.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,620027,00.html
Iraqi children trained by al-Qaeda to be suicide bombers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6135887.ece?print=yes&randnum=1240285919409
Leadership, Petraeus style
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/21/leadership_petraeus_style?mode=PF
Obama’s Gitmo
by Bill McGurn
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027091370936935.html
Tattoos from Auschwitz horror reunite lost inmates
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_holocaust_reunion
Netanyahu: No second Holocaust against Jews
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_holocaust/print
Canadian PM Harper: ‘Iran time limits could be effective’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710741646&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Obama Doesn’t Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/business/21nafta.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
A World Of Trouble For Obama
By Jackson Diehl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041901994_pf.html
April 21st, 2009 at 7:21 am
Thank you Kristofer for keeping us up to date on Internation Affairs. Among other things, it is nice to learn that Canada is slowly becoming a civilized country again and that it is finally fighting anti-Semitism. Hopeful;ly, Mr. Harper and the Conservatives will hopefully stay in power. Unfortunately, the polls up there are not looking so good.