Vehicles searched and vehicle checkpoints set up in run-up to 10th anniversary of September 11 attacks. New York police have amassed a display of force in response to intelligence about a car-bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Officers armed with automatic weapons were stationed on Friday at city landmarks [...]
This evening, the President addressed a joint session of Congress and presented the American Jobs Act, a comprehensive plan to put America back to work. It was created from a set of ideas supported by both Democrats and Republicans, and it acknowledges that if we are going to restore America’s middle class, we need to rebuild [...]
ABOUT a week before East Timor’s 1999 referendum, an Indonesian general asked me how I thought the United Nations – administered ballot would turn out. He expressed genuine astonishment when I said I thought it would be a vote for independence. Five weeks earlier, in a little-known assessment, Rear-Admiral Yoost Mengko, the assistant chief of staff [...]
Changing face of Islam in Indonesia … Muslims gather for Friday prayers at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, one of the largest in south-east Asia. Photo: Irwin Fedriansyah Authorities are placating extremists, writes Tom Allard in Indonesia. Ulil Abshar Abdalla is one of Indonesia’s most perceptive intellectuals, a Harvard-educated Islamic reformer and an adviser to the President, [...]
Pakistan’s Taliban said its suicide bombers carried out an attack on Wednesday that killed 20 people in the southwestern city of Quetta to avenge the capture of an al Qaeda leader. The attack targeted and wounded a brigadier of a paramilitary unit involved in Pakistan’s capture of Younis al-Mauritani and two other al Qaeda operatives [...]
The remarkable transition to democracy by Indonesia after the fall of Suharto is showing signs of wear and tear. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim society, is often held up as a model for Arab reformers. When Suharto fell in 1998 after three decades of authoritarian rule, Indonesia managed to keep both Islamist extremists and the [...]
“THE THIRTIETH SEPTEMBER MOVEMENT – G30S – 1965 AND THE MASS MURDER IN INDONESIA Fortysix years ago, in the early hours of October 1, 1965, a group of Indonesian Officers started the socalled “Gerakan 30 September”, the “G30S”, as it became known to the public. Failure of this ‘coup’, led to a wave of persecusion, [...]
Today, President Obama traveled to Detroit, Michigan where he spoke at a Labor Day picnic with workers at a GM plant. During his remarks, the President spoke of the important role the labor unions have played in establishing the “cornerstones of middle-class security:” Work to make sure that folks get an honest day’s pay for an honest [...]
ELKTON, Md. – The dance, music and art of Indonesia will be showcased at Cecil College’s Elkton Station, where the college’s Performing Arts Program will present “World Arts Celebration 8, Indonesia!” at 7 p.m. Sept. 16. This year’s annual event features a performance by Santi Budaya – a company of dancers and gamelan musicians – [...]
Since the Papua Peace Conference concluded in Jayapura in July, a whirlwind of events in Papua has raised questions that need answers. While the violent incidents around the Puncak Jaya highlands remain unresolved, separate violence has occurred in the neighborhood in Puncak regency surrounding a local election. A few days later, several thousand Papuans took [...]
The Entire Country is Behind You President Barack Obama walks with local and federal officials in a neighborhood hit with flooding from Hurricane Irene in Wayne, N.J., Sept. 4, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Today President Obama travelled to Wayne and Paterson, New Jersey to tour areas damaged by Hurricane Irene. While [...]
Honest Answers for Avoiding Foreclosure One in seven mortgages in the United States is in some phase of foreclosure. The sub-prime mortgage crisis that gave way to the economic meltdown of 2008, followed by the “Great Recession,” the “Jobless Recovery,” and now the threat of a “Double Dip” recession has left many homeowners – and [...]
Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The documents were uncovered by the human rights activist group in the abandoned offices of Libya’s former spy chief and foreign minister, Moussa [...]
Despite losing all legal battles, mayor says he cannot allow a church to be built on a street with an Islamic name. Christian worshipers have been forced to pray in the open air in a town in Indonesia’s West Java province after the town’s majority Muslim population opposed the building of a church. After losing [...]
President Obama calls on Congress to pass a clean extension of the transportation bill to keep America moving and avoid costing nearly one million workers their jobs. Print PDF This post was submitted by The White House / IM.
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