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Colin Powell’s predicted and expected endorsement of Barack Obama was transformed into big news by the pro-Obama media. But Arab propaganda channel Al-Jazeera’s intervention in the U.S. presidential contest is also extremely significant. Al-Jazeera, a mouthpiece for enemies of the United States, aired a Moammar Gadhafi speech praising Obama and followed with a story depicting supporters of Sarah Palin as white racist Christians. The channel is subsidized by the oil-rich Sunni Muslim plutocracy/dictatorship in Qatar. The Al-Jazeera “reporter” who did the hit piece on Palin was Casey Kaufmann, who surfaces in Federal Election Commission (FEC) records as a $500 contributor...

Federal logjam of red tape may shut them out of the 2008 election For the 25 Hispanic immigrants taking a citizenship class Tuesday evening in downtown Houston, voting is a fundamental right they hope to gain. The students, attending the nonprofit Houston International University inside a shopping center, answered enthusiastically as their instructor quizzed them on American history and civics topics they must know to pass a citizenship test. They are part of an unprecedented nationwide surge of 1.4 million legal immigrants who applied for U.S. citizenship in the 2007 fiscal year. But now many of those immigrants fear a...

Adopt an American voter today! WORLDWATCH By Kaius Niemi in Helsinki It is a complete and utter waste of time to go arguing the toss over whether the citizens of the United States are more indifferent to world affairs than, say, the peoples of Europe, Asia, or Africa. What is of significance is that the Americans should in any event be considerably more conscious of what is going on around them. A vote given in the world’s only remaining superpower determines, for instance, whether there will be war in Iraq or not. In November, the United States will be holding...