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It was November 4, 2008, and we were on a two night layover in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania in East Africa. We had just concluded our 2nd safari in two years to East Africa, with five nights in the huge Selous Game Reserve, and two weeks with our good friend and superb guide, Baraza Salaho of Bushbuck Safaris of Arusha. It was 7:30 AM, hours before the first polls were scheduled to open in the Unied States. We had shot over 1000 photographs once again, and I had shot seven hours of Hi Def video from Selous clear up to the Masai River in the North. We sensed that Barck Obama would be our next President, and we wanted to guage the reaction of typical Africans on the street. So with trusty SONY on my shoulder, we took to the street corner in front of the New Africa Hotel to learn the reaction of Africans to the possible election of the first African American President of the United States.
Five years on from the start of the war in Iraq Al Jazeera visited the USA to guage public mood towards the conflict.
In a special four part documentary we talked to, among others, grieving mothers, politicians and the man widely regarded as coining the phrase “axis of evil”, who still supports the war.
Five years on from the start of the war in Iraq Al Jazeera visited the USA to guage public mood towards the conflict.
In a special four part documentary we talked to, among others, grieving mothers, politicians and the man widely regarded as coining the phrase “axis of evil”, who still supports the war.
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Television news bulletins across the world have been reporting the story of Barack Obama’s US presidential victory.
People in the Japanese city of Obama reacted with joy to his election, as did Indonesian children at the school he attended and Barack Obama’s grandmother in Kenya was clearly delighted.
Many were not short of words of advice for the new US President - from Afghanistan and Israel to Gaza and Iran.
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In the second part of Al Jazeera’s year by year focus on the events and the policies that helped shape Iraq and the current chaos in the country, we look at 2005 - the year the trial began of former leader Saddam Hussein.
September 11, 2008, 7:28
Ron Paul urges Americans to vote for third-party candidates
The U.S. Presidential campaign has taken a new turn with the former candidate Ron Paul launching a crusade against both John McCain and Barack Obama. At a news conference, Paul joined three third-party candidates in presenting a united front to shift attention away from the front runners.
By coming together, we represent a majority of the American people. We deserve to be heard. We deserve to be in the debates, The former Republican presidential hopeful said:
The Texas Congressman has generated a devoted following that many have called a revolutionary movement. Dr. Paul even organised his own Convention in Minnesota, attracting 18,000 people.
While he has officially dropped out of the race for the White House, his message is one for change but definitely not the type offered by Obama or McCain.
Obama is not for change. He beats McCain into sending more money to Afghanistan. And they both want to send troops and more money into Georgia, he said.
Ron Paul said he has rejected a plea from the McCain campaign to endorse him, though he did call the republican nominee ‘the lesser of two evils.’
Instead hes rallied behind third-party candidates like Libertarian Ralph Nader, who took the opportunity to criticise media coverage of the election.
It’s demeaning to the media, to the American people and to our status around the world to engage in trivia about political gaffs, he said.
The third-party presidential candidates plan to hold their own debates parallel to those organised for McCain and Obama, in response to the media blackout on their campaigns.
The mainstream media has dubbed Nader a Perennial presidential candidate and a spoiler for taking votes away from the main candidates.
Green Party Candidate Cynthia McKinney also took the floor to declare her independence from the current political order.
The politics of today is politics of conformity and of control. And basically the two-party system represents just that, she said.
A was message echoed by Charles Baldwin whos running on the Constitution Party ticket.
It’s a broken system. The two major parties have not only a monopoly but stranglehold a on the political process system that choking the lifeblood out of our country, he stated.
The four candidates share the same views when it comes to foreign policy. They condemn U.S. intervention in Georgia and the decision to send a billion-dollar aid package.
Have you ever thought when you send a billion dollar aid that maybe there’s someone hungry in the United States or who needs medical care? Ron Paul wondered.
McKinney said it was totally inappropriate for the U.S. to send so-called humanitarian aid on a naval ship.She also called NATO’s eastward expansion a dangerous move that could stir another Cold War.
The third-party presidential candidates have no illusions about sitting down in the Oval Office next January. Their goal is to change the two-party system in Washington. They call it the ‘beginning of the realignment of American politics.
Ivan Canas says:
The US has betrayed itself, Russia & the World.
When the Soviet Union Collapsed there were several agreements that the United States and the European Union should have followed. But that was not the case, they have chosen to execute that wise spanish proverb which states: “Out of the fallen tree everybody makes logs or takes cuttings”
So, the EU started to expand too fast. However, Russia never minded that part too much, but they did mind NATO. The expansion of NATO is a very dangerous decision, because it awakes suspicion and lack of trust.
NATO expansion was executed and still despite the agreements reached in the past. James Baker former US Secretary of State pledged that NATO was not to be expanded to the East if the Soviet Union agreed to unify Germany and accepted the ‘new Germany’ within the alliance. That was a promise that the United States did to the WORLD.
Saakashvili’s action was supported by the US and some members of the European Union.
Russia has been responsible of its acts and it has stopped a masacre provoked by Georgia, but as I said before in others of my youtube ‘more info comments’, Russia will not accept that its national interest are ignored.
Bill Clinton and George Bush are to blame for this state of affairs in the world.
Russia has complied and even experience a very bad economic period during the nineties when the International Monetary Fund was applying its policies there.
In a BBC Newsnight Special (part 4 of 4), Jeremy Paxman looks at what lies ahead for the future President of the United States, the American People and the World at large. From Economic Hurdles, Energy Challenges to Living the American Dream and Foreign Policies, this review highlights the key elements that will confront the winning candidate in the coming years.
