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Touring the World Media
I like to read foreign political stories, mainly because it is so fascinating as an American to see the arguments we have here played out in other venues. Watching America is a neat web site that takes foreign newspaper stories and translates them into English -- the idea being that most English-speaking people never get to read what is written about world politics in other languages. (BTW, I have no idea about the political leanings of this site -- apologies if if offends anyone. I just think it is neat reading articles from foreign papers.) Some interesting ones from this week:
Le Monde in Paris is running an editorial about the myths of terrorism. Very interesting read, although I disagree with some of the author's conclusions.
The Russians are saying that with the recent Shuttle launch, America risks it's international prestige and image. I don't know if I would go that far -- it's kind of hard to launch a 100 shuttles and be doing too terribly, but the space program is a big mess, no doubt.
The Russians are an interesting bunch -- it's a very fascinating country and culture. Looks like they beat the U.S. to Japan to look at the A-Bomb sites in WWII, something I didn't know, according to a Japanese newspaper. They made it 20 days ahead of the Americans.
According to this Indian newspaper article, India and the U.S. have "kissed and made up" Gosh -- I hope that doesn't mean that we all have to buy each other flowers.
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