March 29, 2007 – 12:06 am
by Bob Boynton
The Arab League met in summit at Riyadh. The business was re-invigorating the peace process. US Secretary of State Rice seems determined to get some motion — going to the Saudis to encourage them to become active produced the meeting and King Abdullah re-tabled the 2000 Arab initiative that Israel has summarily dismissed [...]
by Bob Boynton
They did it again!
First it was the UN secretary-general ducking under a table. Now it is
Now it is someone not quite sure he wants to shake the hand extended to him. Shall I? Shall I not? What would happen? It is a bemused expression, but it seems an expression of carefully considering what [...]
March 22, 2007 – 11:54 pm
by Bob Boynton
The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon went to Iraq — unannounced, of course. Unannounced is the way all foreign dignitaries visit Iraq these days.
This is what he was told by prime minister Maliki
“We consider it [the visit] a positive message to world in which you [Ban] confirm that Baghdad has returned to [...]
March 16, 2007 – 12:22 am
by Bob Boynton
Aljazeera [Arabic] did it again. They gave us photos of the president and the prime minister of Palestine on back to back days.
I wrote about the photos on March 5 and 6 because I was interested in the way the background figured in the ‘texture’ of the photographs. Now they have done it [...]
by Bob Boynton
This is it — number 50.
When I started I did not know how far it would go. It has gotten to 50. This is the 50th blog entry at Globalizing News.
It has been going for 15 weeks. That is an average of 3.3 entries per week. Since I was on holiday at Christmas [...]
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by Bob Boynton
Palestinian leaders discuss unity — the headline of Aljazeera, in English.
The president and the prime minister sat down to iron out their difficulties. It had been a difficult period leading to Fatah and Hamas supporters shooting at each other.
Aljazeera, in Arabic, and Aljazeera, in English, both reported the beginning of a rapprochement. [...]
February 17, 2007 – 1:24 am
by Bob Boynton
There was — what was his name? — the speaker of the US House of Representatives. He made it into the global news once a year when he stood behind the president who was giving his state of the union speech.
Well, there is a new speaker of the House and here [...]
February 15, 2007 – 2:12 am
by Bob Boynton
Al-Zawahiri was back just in time for valentine day [February 14].
This time it was an audio tape so they had to use a photo they already had on hand. Apparently photos of al-Zawahiri are in short supply since this is the same photo they used only a few days earlier. See When Al-Zawahiri [...]
February 1, 2007 – 9:04 pm
by Frank Beer and Bob Boynton
Flags are ubiquitous in the practice of politics. At times they are used symbolically as in this rather neatly designed play on flags and conflict.
At other times they remind us of the grief known as war.
We wanted to look systematically at how they are used, and that led to this [...]
January 25, 2007 – 11:30 pm
by Bob Boynton
President Bush delivered the state of the union address to the nation and the world on January 23, 2007. His speech was widely covered by the news media. Each of the four media outlets I follow had a report on the speech. Aljazeera [Arabic] contributed a photo of the president flanked by vice [...]
