WatchingAmerica.com is a web site that tracks online newpapers from around the world. It focuses on how the US is viewed and reported on abroad. Side by side, the stories paint a diverse, contradictory, disturbing, and rich image of how we’re seen and understood.
Kavkaz Center, July 8, Lithuania
Strange Bedfellows: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Challenges America
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Original Article (English)“For Iran, it is more convenient to be at odds with the U.S. in the company of Russia and China than to be so alone.”
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, July 7, U.K.
As America Sinks Into the Mud, Iraq’s Neighbors Breathe a Sigh of Relief
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Original Article (Arabic)“All the peoples and regimes in the region have had … a single goal: to sink the Americans in the Iraqi mud, and to bury them and their ‘democracy’ with them.”
The Nation, July 13, Pakistan
The Fourth of July Through Pakistani Eyes
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Original Article (English)“It made me marvel at the American way of life, that despite their different ethnic backgrounds, they are one in espousing their Declaration of Independence.”
Azzaman, June 29, Iraq
Columbus’ Discovery of America: History’s ‘Biggest Mistake’
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Original Article (Arabic)
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(Hat tip: Elke Zuern)