Current Events, December 2008

2008

• December 31
  • Defiant Hamas says it can outlast Israel as Gaza Strip smolders [1]

• December 30
  • Iran sets up court to try Israelis over Gaza [2]
  • German mayor in hiding after far right threat [3]
  • Holocaust love story a hoax [4]
  • Gaza relief boat carrying Cynthia McKinney rammed by Israelis [5]
  • US man admits 'spying for Israel' [6]
  • 'Jena 6' figure hospitalized after suicide attempt [7]

• December 29
  • MLK heirs say can't stop Stormfront web site [8]
  • Kucinich criticizes Israel; wants U.N. probe [9]

• December 27
  • Hundreds die in Israeli raid on Gaza [10]

• December 26
  • Russians protest Estonia SS calendar [11]

• December 23
  • Mexican beauty queen caught in drug raid [12]
  • Jews feel betrayed over Madoff scandal [13]
  • Bush pardons man who helped Israel in 1948 [14]
  • Pakistan scrambles jets, prepares for war [15]
  • Lebanese activist ship to sail to Gaza [16]
  • Rev. Rick Warren to headline MLK observance in Atlanta [17]

• December 22
  • Russia denies supplying missile systems to Iran [18]
  • Jews to protest the rise of anti-Semitism in France [19]
  • Israel expels UN human rights representative [20]

• December 21
  • Obama's Labor pick has communist ties [21]
  • Israel plans to attack Gaza soon [22]

• December 20
  • Russian warships dock in Havana [23]
  • Palestinian militant killed in Israeli airstrike [24]

• December 19
  • How Jewish is Hollywood? [25]
  • Germany releases Red Army Faction member [26]
  • Russia’s secret police, FSB, denies the Holodomor [27]

• December 18
  • Obama’s ‘pimp’ photos discovered [28]

• December 17
  • Racist emails circulate among Alaskan government officials [29]
  • John Walker Lindh asks President Bush to commute 20-year sentence for aiding Taliban [30]

• December 16
  • Russia to provide Lebanon with fighter jets [31]

• December 15
  • Far right is well established in Bavaria [32]

• December 14
  • Jimmy Carter meets with political leader of Hamas in Syria [33]

• December 12
  • Rahm Emanuel getting death threats [34]

• December 11
  • Jew Bernard L. Madoff, ex-Nasdaq stock market chairman, arrested by the FBI on criminal charges of fraud [35] [36]

• December 9
  • US housing still too segregated [37]
  • Obama urged to give priority to genocide prevention [38]
  • Illinois Governor sought To "sell" Obama's Senate seat [39]

• December 8
  • 9/11 conspirators want to confess [40]

• December 7
  • Suit contesting Barack Obama's citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court [41]

• December 5
  • Why the stories about Obama's birth certificate will never die [42]
  • Oil prices plunge, dollar gas a possibility [43]
  • Jewish settlers perpetrate pogroms against Palestinians [44]

• December 4
  • Netanyahu can work well with Obama [45]
  • NASA delays its next Mars mission [46]
  • Obamamania sweeps the US [47]

• December 3
  • Tax activist's ad challenges Obama's eligibility for office [48]

• December 2
  • Congressman: Obama's Senate replacement must be Black [49]

• December 1
  • Libyan aid ship blocked from Gaza [50]

See also

• Current Events archive