Protest fears behind charity group’s decision Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – George W Bush’s invitation to participate 12 February in an annual gala fundraiser for the Jewish charity Keren Hayessod (United Israel Appeal) has been withdrawn, the group’s lawyer, Robert Equey, told the Tribune de Geneve. The newspaper Saturday 5 February carries an interview with Equey. [...]
Obama gets the Nobel (Chappatte cartoon)
October 10, 2009 by
© Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.
Ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate to open NGO in Geneva
July 30, 2009 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Sami Al-Hajj, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, is set to open an NGO in Geneva, the Guantanamo Justice Centre, to “raise awareness of the conditions other inmates currently held at Guantanamo are facing and to pressure the US government for their release.”
George W Bush gives farewell address, says post-9/11 life never returned to normal
January 16, 2009 by
In his farewell address to the nation, US President George W Bush reflected on the ups and downs of his presidency, noting that “As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11,” Bush said. “But I never did.” CNN
Bush’s pardons to 14: not Black, Jones or Lindh
November 25, 2008 by
US President George W Bush, followed a presidential tradition, Monday pardoned 14 convicted criminals but the list did not include any of the big names who have requested pardons, a list that includes Canadian Conrad Black, convicted of fraud, athlete Marion Jones, convicted of using banned substances, and John Walker Lindh, the American-turned-Taliban captured in [...]
