MMFA: In the wake of President Obama’s announcement that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, Media Matters looks back at conservative media who attacked Obama’s commitment to fighting terrorism. Since his election in 2008, right-wing media figures have repeatedly suggested that Obama is weak on terror and that he is [...]

   Dr. Wolassa KumoIntroduction Analyses of global poverty often focus on a narrow concept of economic poverty, which is measured by income, consumption or wealth. Accordingly, an individual who does not have an access to food that provides a standard minimum daily energy requirement or lives on an income of less than US$ 1.25 per day, [...]

MMFA: After President Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate, members of the conservative media declared Donald Trump the “winner” for having pushed birther theories so intently. However, these conservative media figures ignored the fact that the long-form birth certificate made Trump’s previous claims that Obama’s birth certificate “was missing” and that Obama [...]

BBC: Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden, [the chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States], is dead. The US is said to be in possession of Bin Laden’s body. President Barack Obama is due to speak shortly. The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a ground operation in a [...]