Egyptians: ‘Obama Talks Democracy, Endorses Dictatorship’
CAIRO, Jun 5 (IPS) -- Egyptian officials are lining up to praise U.S. President Barack Obama's address to the Islamic world delivered in Cairo Thursday. But local campaigners for political reform say the speech was disappointingly light on the issues of democracy and...
Obama’s Cairo Speech Widely Hailed at Home
U.S. President Barack Obama's historic speech in Cairo Thursday elicited broad approval from around the U.S., with the notable exception of the neoconservative right. Obama's speech itself was largely uncontroversial. Broad in scope and thin on policy specifics, Obama...
Breaking Bibi
Obama Appeals to Muslim World for ‘New Beginning’
In what was perhaps the most widely anticipated speech delivered by a U.S. president abroad in recent memory, Barack Obama Thursday extended a hand to the world's 1.4 billion Muslims, receiving repeated applause and a standing ovation from the audience at Cairo...
Obama to Muslims: Put Up and Shut Up
Death At Guantánamo Hovers Over Obama’s Middle East Visit
Obama in Cairo: Words, Words, Words
Obama Versus Osama
Obama Turns the Screws on Israel
JERUSALEM -- Air raid sirens wailed out on Tuesday morning and Israelis were asked to go down into bomb shelters as the country engaged in its largest-ever civil defense drill. Israelis remain deeply worried by what they perceive as an existential threat of a possible...
