Anne Davies February 5, 2009 US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has branded a "buy American" clause in the $US900 billion ($A1.38 trillion) economic stimulus bill before Congress "protectionist".
"nationhood as we knows it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority" The Birth of the Nation by Strobe Talbott. "A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century - "citizen of the world" - will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.