Barak obama
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Friday, 18 November 2011
Iit was inevitable that Australia, in the absence of tough-minded governments, would eventually come to host a US military base, writes Bruce Haigh, a political and strategic analyst and retired diplomat
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/ Ben Sandilands
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Thursday, 17 November 2011
The two presidential flying command posts held at constant readiness at Canberra today are worth a moment’s contemplation in the context of the strategic implications of the Obama mission.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Thursday, 6 October 2011
America’s Republican Party this week took another big step towards settling on a presidential candidate.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Friday, 23 September 2011
Obama’s UN speech was completely unable to hide the fact that America’s Middle East policy is headed for an almighty train wreck.
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Monday, 12 September 2011
What does it mean to heal? Is time, itself, enough? Can we remember, and still move on? asks Daniel Ziffer, freelance reporter, from Ground Zero, New York.
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/ Antony Loewenstein
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Tuesday, 6 September 2011
In the 10 years since 9/11, millions of people have been killed but countless firms have benefitted from the explosion in Western defence spending.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
The Tea Party’s wildfire success has fundamentally changed US politics and sown the seeds of its own undoing, writes Harley Dennett in Washington DC.
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/ Guy Rundle
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Could it get any worse for Barak Obama? Why, yes, there’s a double-dip recession on the way — indeed, it began months ago, and is only now starting to show up in the stats. Yet Obama always trots out, relaxed and grinning.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Monday, 8 August 2011
Don’t be surprised if the Gillard government also bends in the wind when it comes to Palestine.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Despite that win, Democrats seem more discontented with the deal than Republicans
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/ Stephen Mayne
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Monday, 1 August 2011
With many companies valued at more than $100 billion, the US has ample corporate firepower to draw on when it comes to servicing government debt.
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/ Richard Farmer
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Monday, 1 August 2011
The almost daily predictions of an interest rate rise seems to be having an impact on sales of new houses.
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Friday, 29 July 2011
With still no sign that Washington has been able to craft a compromise solution for raising the debt ceiling, global markets are becoming increasingly worried, writes Karen Maley, of Business Spectator.
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/ Mel Campbell
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011
When you picture Julia Gillard in cartoon form, what comes to mind? Her pointy nose? Her flaming hair? Her receding chin and long neck? Or her bum?
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/ Harley Dennett
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Friday, 24 June 2011
Why is it so hard to believe a left-leaning politician might genuinely oppose same-sex marriage? The bigger problem for Barack Obama is not even he’s sure what side he supports.
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Friday, 24 June 2011
Without an Australian input into US foreign policy and strategic plans in Afghanistan, our contribution becomes little more than supplying mercenaries, writes Bruce Haigh, a political commentator and retired diplomat.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The pattern for the past two years has been left-wing governments falling like ninepins, and European voters have been flocking to free-market and centre-right parties.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Thursday, 26 May 2011
The Republican presidential field in the US, which not so long ago just looked like a confused mess, is rapidly sorting itself out.
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/ Richard Farmer
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Monday, 23 May 2011
How refreshing to have that couple of stories in the past week suggesting that the Liberal Party is not completely full of “yes” politicians.
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/ Guy Rundle
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
With the killing of Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama’s presidency has taken a new course — and so has America, and the world.
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
More than a thousand observant Muslims gathered to vent their frustration at the US, condemning Barack Obama as a terrorist and declaring bin Laden a hero, writes Stuart Ranfurlie from Jakarta
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/ Guy Rundle
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Obama is now a foreign policy president, a war president. Having knocked the wannabee Republicans out of the park, he is now aiming to take out Gaddafi, at which point, in the American imagery, he will join seamlessly with Reagan.
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/ Harley Dennett
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Donald Trump’s pitch for the Republican US presidential nomination has been compared to recent media sideshows like Charlie Sheen and Rebecca Black. The better comparison is California’s 2003 recall election that became worldwide entertainment.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has delivered a stunning vote of no confidence in US political leaders to come up with a solution for swollen budget deficits, writes Karen Maley, of Business Spectator.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Obama remains an odds-on favourite for re-election. But it looks as if the US will have to endure some bad policy in the meantime.
