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Rage Against Gitmo
A large contingent of American bands have joined the Close Gitmo Now campaign in direct protest of the use of their music during torture practices at Guantanamo Bay. The new campaign is led by two retired generals: Lieutenant General Robert Gard and Brigadier...
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Fri, Oct 23 2009 10:30 AM
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Sweden burns bunnies for warmth
Move over ethanol, there is a new bio-fuel in the world... bunnies. Thousands of stray rabbits in Sweden are being shot, frozen and then burned for heat . Stockholm even hires rabbit hunters for the task, like Tommy Tuvuynger, a modern day Elmer Fudd...
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Fri, Oct 23 2009 9:26 AM
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Europe
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Energy
Morning Brief: NATO backs McChrystal plan, considers more troops
NATO backs McChrystal plan, considers more troops Top story: Meeting in Slovakia, NATO defense ministers agreed to support the broader counterinsurgency strategy laid out by U.S. Gen Stanley McChrystal, though they largely side-stepped the issue of committing...
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Fri, Oct 23 2009 6:05 AM
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New German government wants U.S. nukes out
Reuters has printed excerpts from the coalition agreement between German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle 's free democrats, which includes the following paragraph: we will strive within (NATO...
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Thu, Oct 22 2009 2:04 PM
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Shinseki to Taiwan?
No cabinet-level U.S. official has visited Taiwan since Clinton administration Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater in 2000, but Taipei is hoping to change that with an invitation to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki: Representatives of Taiwan's...
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Thu, Oct 22 2009 11:14 AM
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China
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Are the Haqqanis next on Pakistan's hit list?
View Larger Map New York Times journalist David Rohde's account of his kidnapping and subsequent escape from Taliban militants affiliated with the Haqqani network in North Waziristan region of Pakistan makes for riveting reading. It's an amazing...
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Thu, Oct 22 2009 5:49 AM
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Morning Brief: Busy days for pirates
Busy days for pirates Top story: Somali pirates attacked two ships within minutes of each other off the coast of East Africa today. A group of pirates took control of a Panamanian-flagged vessel near the Seychelles. Shortly after that pirates began firing...
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Thu, Oct 22 2009 5:38 AM
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Liz Cheney: chicken, hawk, or both?
I've been enjoying the public back-and-forth between Rachel Maddow, host of the eponymous MSNBC show, and Liz Cheney, daughter of the former vice president and founder of Keep America Safe , a hawkish PAC. In the past weeks and months, Cheney has...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 2:34 PM
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Live broadcast: Oil: the long goodbye
At 4 p.m. today, Foreign Policy editor Susan Glasser will moderate a discussion on our Sept./Oct. cover package Oil: The Long Goodbye at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The panel will feature "The Prize" author Daniel Yergin, Time correspondent...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 12:50 PM
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Selfless statesman Berlusconi would rather not govern Italy
If Berlusconi had it his way, he wouldn't be bothered with the pesky task of governing Italy. The only reason he puts up with the supremely vexing job is to keep the communists out of power, he told CNN . "I'm doing what I do with a sense...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 9:06 AM
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Does Obama have a dog in the Lisbon treaty fight?
The Times reports that when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in London next week, she expressed concerns that a new Tory government led by David Camerson would cause a rift between Britain and Europe: Mrs Clinton is said to be worried by Mr Cameron...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 8:15 AM
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Morning Brief: Iranian negotiators agree to uranium enrichment deal
Iranian negotiators agree to uranium enrichment deal Top story: The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iranian negotiators have agreed to a draft proposal to ship most of its uranium to Russia for enrichment. The deal must still be accepted by Tehran...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 6:12 AM
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The White House's mixed messages on troops
Imagine you're a tribal chief in Kandahar. You have to choose a side: either support the government in Kabul and its U.S. allies, or go over to the Taliban. Before you make that decision, it's very important for you to know the level of American...
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Tue, Oct 20 2009 3:30 PM
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Joe Biden: America's reassurer-in-chief
Anyone notice how you can describe almost any international trip by the vice president with the following madlib: "Vice President Joe Biden traveled to [U.S. ally] to reassure leaders that they had not been abandonded despite [larger foreign-policy...
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Tue, Oct 20 2009 11:11 AM
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Obama Administration
Why are scientists such bad spies?
It appears astrophysics isn't a good prerequisite for espionage. Hot off the heels of this month's arrest of an alleged al-Qaeda operative at the CERN lab, a U.S. scientist was brought down yesterday for trying to sell state secrets to Israel...
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Tue, Oct 20 2009 11:05 AM
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