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Defection Of Highest Ranking Libyan To Date
03-30-2011 by L. S, Carbonell Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has fled to London. He is the minister who has managed to work with Western leaders and peers to buy Libya’s way back into the mainstream of international relations, negotiating the restitution for the Lockerbie bombing and other atrocities committed by terrorists trained in Libya. [...]
Street Parties For The Royal Wedding and Redefining “Breakfast”
03-30-2011 by L. S. Carbonell England has a wonderful, quirky history of holding “street parties” to celebrate everything from the signing of peace treaties after wars to Royal anniversaries to Royal weddings. Anyone who is a fan of old British movies, or ever the occasional episode of Doctor Who is familiar with the tradition. It’s [...]
Arming Libya’s Rebels
03-30-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Any idea how many rocket launchers one can buy with a tanker full of sweet crude? The committee that constitutes a government in Benghazi has offered to pay for weapons and trainers. Benghazi is the major port for oil exportation from Libya, They have had to slow down the flow [...]
Royal Wedding Tidbits
03-29-2011 by L. S. Carbonell In addition to covering the wedding itself, sometimes one must cover the silliness. Somewhere out there in the ether, a debate is going on over whether or not Kate Middleton will learn to do the “royal wave” – a “hold the arm in the air and twist hand at the [...]
A Few Random Thoughts on the President’s Speech
03-29-2011 by L. S. Carbonell First: what did the President say Monday night that we hadn’t already heard from Adm. Mullen, Secretary Gate and Secretary Clinton? Only two things – the hand-off to NATO will take place on Wednesday and all the money that the international community has seized – the $33 billion of Qaddafi [...]
Obama Explains Libya Actions
03/28/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire President Barack Obama took the air tonight to discuss the military actions being taken in Libya. What he said was pretty much what everyone already knew was the rationale behind the actions that he took. Unfortunately, some people have insisted that they hear it from Obama’s mouth directly, and they will [...]
Shift In Policy Regarding Binational LGBT Couples
03/28/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire For those who have been waiting for the news that the White House was going to change the rules regarding green cards for same-sex partners of lesbian and gay Americans, the news came out this weekend that the US Citizenship and Immigration services was issuing rules regarding foreign born partners lesbian [...]
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Ugandan Invitation for Gadhafi Asylum: Museveni to Receive EXTRA Tutoring in Dictatorship ?
Melanie Nathan – March 30, 2011- Nothing like improving one’s education – As an intense diplomatic effort proceeds to find a country where Moammer Gadhafi can go, and an international military effort against Gadhafi’s forces continues, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has offered Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi a home, Uganda, apparently the president’s spokesman told The [...]