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A "World Views" farewell (part two)

In late January, I'll launch a personal website whose primary purpose will be to present to editors, publishers, researchers and the general public a selection of my published articles and essays from various magazines, newspapers and books. The new ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  30 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Dick Cheney,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A "World Views" farewell (part one)

Allow me to step away from the reportorial, third-person voice in which this news digest is normally written to share the following advisory and observations with you. November 4, 2008: A street vendor sold a Chinese-language paper on election day in ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  29 Dec 2008

What should the U.S. do now? Two views...

Bush at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., earlier this month: Considering the crimes his administration cronies have committed and his own violations of the U.S. Constitution, will he issue himself and ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Thomas Friedman,  Dick Cheney,  American Enterprise Institute,  General Motors

Merry Christmas! "There's probably no God."

Recently, in Kansas City, members of the congregation at the Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship church informed their pastor they intended to dress up like Jesus Christ - as the holy-historical personage is often depicted in artists' images - in order ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  25 Dec 2008
Related Topics: MSNBC,  Polly Toynbee,  Christopher Hitchens,  Richard Dawkins,  UK Labour Party

Pope Benedict at Christmas: Preaching bigotry disguised as compassion

Said the New York taxi driver to the American journalist several years ago in a heavy, Italian immigrant's accent: "If ya no play-a da game, ya no can make-a da rules." All dressed up to preach bigotry and intolerance at Christmastime: Pope Benedict ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  23 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI,  Roman Catholic Church,  BBC,  Pope John Paul II,  Joseph Ratzinger

The increase - and dangers - of unemployment everywhere

With Germany's economy projected to contract by up to three percent next year, a new survey shows that "German consumer confidence remains weak amid production cutbacks and fears of unemployment...." In Germany, "shoppers are turning gloomier as the ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  BBC,  BMW,  Polly Toynbee

Britain's Brown: No Iraq-war investigation anytime soon

Gordon Brown, the veteran Labour Party pol, served as Britain's chancellor of the exchequer (finance minister) from 1997 to 2007 under former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Brown was there, close to the decision- and policy-making process, when his former ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Tony Blair,  George W. Bush,  Alastair Campbell,  David Cameron

Bush's shoe-throwing critic: For many, an instant hero

As we noted on Tuesday, Muntadar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, threw his shoes at George W. Bush this past Sunday, when the lame-duck, self-styled "war president" took part in a press conference in Baghdad alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Nouri al-Maliki,  Mahmoud al-Mashhadani

Confirmed: Cheney's Role in Approving Torture

On Monday of this week, George W. Bush's scowling sidekick and secretive Svengali, Dick Cheney, emerged from his hiding place to speak with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl. In his interview with the American TV network, Cheney acknowledged his approval ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  George W. Bush,  White House,  Donald Rumsfeld,  Al-Qaeda

To throw or not to throw: The shoes, aimed at Bush, felt round the world

The Iraqi journalist Muntadar Al Zaidi hurled one, then a second shoe at Bush this past Sunday in Baghdad, where the self-styled "war president" showed up at a press conference alongside Nouri Al Maliki (right, at podium), Washington's puppet prime ...

From EDWARD M. GOMEZ, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Nouri al-Maliki,  Ahmed Maher (politician),  Saddam Hussein,  BBC

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