UN sends envoy to plead with Burma
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 19th, 2008 4:31 am by HL
UN sends envoy to plead with Burma
A senior U.N. envoy traveled to Myanmar on Sunday to urge its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, amid mounting fears of starvation, especially among children…
Lauria: Obama is no John Kerry
With a single speech on Friday Barack Obama showed he is no John Kerry. He will fight back immediately against scurrilous charges with reason and fact, not empty rhetoric. Obama has the benefit of voters who’ve turned away from Bush and the Iraq invasion in droves. Kerry did not have that advantage. Incredibly, the verdict on Iraq was still out for many American voters in 2004 even though it was exceedingly clear to those not fooled by patriotic propaganda and fear-mongering that the war was the world’s worst foreign policy blunder since the Soviet’s 1980 invasion of Afghanistan.