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A new book asks, "are we becoming China's ***?"
2012 will see a stream of new books in the patented Thomas Friedman "Oh My God the Chinese Are Eating our Lunch with Environmentally Friendly Chopsticks" mold. Some will be more worthwile than others. However, one in particular is sure to stand...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012 9:57 AM
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A new path forward for Foreign Policy
We have some big news today: FP is becoming The FP Group, a new independent operating unit within the Washington Post C ompany with our friend and longtime contributor David Rothkopf as CEO. Here's the press release from the Post: WASHINGTON-January...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012 8:37 AM
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World leaders singing
President Obama impressed crowds at the Apollo Theater yesterday by singing a few bars of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together": Only one line, but hey, credit for picking a tough song. But Obama's hardly the only head of state known...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012 8:05 AM
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Gambian president calls his citizens lazy, threatens to fire them
President Obama delivers his State of the Union address next week. If he really wants to give the cable channels talking, perhaps he should take his queus from the Gambia's just reelected president, a humble fellow who goes by the name of His Excellency...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012 6:34 AM
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Morning Brief: Arab League mission mandate expires in Syria
Arab League mission mandate expires in Syria Top news: The mandate of the one-month Arab League observer mission in Syria expired yesterday with members of the team largely confined to their hotels. Critics have charged that the mission has been ineffective...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012 5:35 AM
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FBI busts global Internet hosting service
One day after SOPA blackout day, the U.S. Justice Department has unveiled its latest high-profile piracy prosecution with charges against the operators of Hong Kong-based digital locker service MegaUpload. In one of the largest copyright cases in U.S...
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Thu, Jan 19 2012 3:11 PM
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When did the U.S. navy become the Iranian Coast Guard?
It's great to hear that a U.S. Navy missile destroyer was able to assist the crew of a sinking Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman today, but it should be said that this seems to be happening an awful lot lately. On January 5, a U.S. destroyer...
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Thu, Jan 19 2012 8:21 AM
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Rick, we hardly knew ye
Rick Perry's presidential campaign, which is ending today , will almost certainly be remembered best years from now for the infamous "oops" moment , but he had some notable foreign-policy highlights as well. Here's a look back at the...
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Thu, Jan 19 2012 7:40 AM
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Morning Brief: Obama rejects Keystone pipeline
Obama rejects Keystone pipeline Top story: President Barack Obama's administration rejected a Canadian firm's proposal to build and operate an expansion to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have linked Canada's oil sands to refineries...
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Thu, Jan 19 2012 4:55 AM
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ABC: Romney keeps millions in Cayman Islands
If proven true, this seems pretty damaging: As one of the wealthiest candidates to run for president in recent times, Romney has used a variety of techniques to help minimize the taxes on his estimated $250 million fortune. In addition to paying the lower...
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Wed, Jan 18 2012 2:26 PM
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The *** truck driver who speaks for Sweden (this week)
Sweden's tourism board has launched a unique program where each week they turn the official @Sweden twitter feed over to a different citizen. Users have so far included a female priest, and advertising executive and an organic sheep farmer. The feed...
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Wed, Jan 18 2012 12:43 PM
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How to visit Cuba: First, find your purpose
The Washington Post reminds us this week that beginning on March 21, Island Travel & Tours will be operating direct charter flights from Baltimore's BWI Airport to Havana as part of the Obama administration's liberalization of travel to Cuba...
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Wed, Jan 18 2012 11:47 AM
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SOPA, China, and the World's Smallest Violin
To convince lawmakers to abandon the SOPA and PIPA, bills that threatened to put America " on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world " according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, many prominent websites took to the, um, cyberstreets...
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Wed, Jan 18 2012 11:28 AM
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U.S. confirms that spy agencies worked with ex-warlord Charles Taylor
In response to a FOIA request from the Boston Globe , the U.S. government has confirmed that former Liberian President Charles Taylor, now on trial for war crimes at the Hague, received support from U.S. intelligence agencies during the 1980s: After a...
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Wed, Jan 18 2012 10:56 AM
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If it makes oil deals like a country, or jails journalists like a country, is it a country?
A pair of stories about Somalia's semi-autonomous regions -- Puntland and Somaliland -- make it fairly clear that companies and NGOs are treating these entities as if they are countries, even if governments aren't. First comes news that a Canadian...
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Wed, Jan 18 2012 9:02 AM
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