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Hugo Chavez is going to make it rain
Some of the world's remaining communist countries (plus former Soviet Russia) are preparing to control the weather. Indeed, China, Russia, Venezuela, and Cuba are preparing ways to control precipitation -- hearkening back to something the X-Men guys...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 2:19 PM
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Latin America
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Environment
Hillary in black and white and color
Michael Crowley has an excellent article in this week's New Republic, "Reset Button," assessing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's public breaks from official U.S. policy. He runs through her out-of-line statements on Kim Jong-il's...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 1:21 PM
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State Department
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Hillary
How to Create a Palestinian State, 101
The Palestinian leadership seems caught in limbo these days, alternating between threats to tear down the Palestinian Authority and promises to build up the institutions of a nascent Palestinian state, which will then seek international recognition with...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 11:33 AM
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FP Passport
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Middle East
Following cultural conventions is not submission
The reptilian brain is human kind's link to our primitive ancestors. Millions of years of evolution helped us develop reasoning, shame, and verbal communication. But in the reptilian brain, fight-or-flight survival instincts survive. The reptilian...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 10:19 AM
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FP Passport
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East Asia
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Culture
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Obama Administration
Reprieve for Berlusconi
Reuters reports that an Italian judge has delayed the resumption of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud trial until January, at least. Why? "Pressing state business" -- that is, presiding over a U.N. summit on hunger in Rome. But...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 9:25 AM
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Europe
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Law
Obama's townhall in Shanghai
This afternoon in Shanghai, U.S. President Barack Obama held a townhall-style meeting with university students. It was an event that his staff had worked hard to include on his China trip itinerary. After a brief speech extolling the importance of core...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 9:05 AM
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East Asia
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China
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Obama Administration
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International Relations
Is Pakistan's prime minister really so powerful?
The Pakistani newspaper Dawn is reporting that Forbes magazine has named Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani prime minister, the 38th most powerful man in the world. Forbes doesn't seem to have published its new list online yet, so I can't verify...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 5:26 AM
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Pakistan
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Media
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Morning Brief: Obama visits China
Obama visits China Top Story: U.S. President Barack Obama landed in Shanghai on Sunday night for the start of a historic three-day visit to China, part of an eight-day tour of Asia. It is the president's first trip to China. Obama and Chinese President...
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Mon, Nov 16 2009 4:19 AM
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Friday Photo: Beauties and the Beasts
Models wearing clothes inspired by murals on a portion of the remaining Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery pose next to the 'Brotherkiss' mural at the East Side Gallery on its official re-opening day on November 6, 2009 in Berlin, Germany...
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Fri, Nov 13 2009 3:53 PM
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What will happen at KSM's trial?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is undoubtedly one of the most murderous people in U.S. custody today, a self-proclaimed terrorist "to the bone." He masterminded the 9/11 attacks and the 2002 Bali bombing. He has confessed to a number of crimes, and...
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Fri, Nov 13 2009 1:03 PM
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War zone or post-national paradise?
With more than 2,000 killings this year in Ciudad Juarez, pictures of gunshot victims strewn about the streets and bulletproof-vested shopkeepers attending terrified customers, potential paramilitiary group formation , calls for UN peacekeeping troops...
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Fri, Nov 13 2009 9:38 AM
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North America
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Diplomacy
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Mexico
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Migration/Immigration
Who is really responsible for Greg Craig stepping down?
Today, Greg Craig, the White House's top legal advisor, stepped down from the post he once described as his dream job. The speculation over the much-respected lawyer's resignation has been swirling for months, reaching a fever pitch back in October...
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Fri, Nov 13 2009 9:29 AM
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Terrorism
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Law
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Obama Administration
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Bush's Legacy
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Bush Administration
Al Qaeda blames Blackwater for Peshawar bombings
Looks like Blackwater/Xe has joined the list of Al Qaeda's favorite boogeymen. Mustafa Abu Yazid, the terror group's chief of operations in Afghanistan, is blaming the contractor for the recent violence in Peshawar: The Mujahedeen, as Yazid called...
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Fri, Nov 13 2009 7:13 AM
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Morning Brief: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried in New York
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried in New York Top story: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and four of his co-defendants will be tried in a federal court in New York, according to a justice department official...
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Fri, Nov 13 2009 6:06 AM
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Morning Brief
The Israeli-Palestinian doomsday scenario
In honor of Roland Emerich's apocalyptic "2012," let's parse out a Middle Eastern doomsday scenario: the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority and the revival of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the primary governing body...
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Thu, Nov 12 2009 10:20 AM
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