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Pakistan bans Facebook over "Everybody Draw Mohammed" page

Pakistan's government has ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook after protests against a page that encourages users to draw the Prophet Mohammed. The "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page was set up in response to Comedy Central's...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 8:38 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops

Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops In the worst attack in Kabul in recent weeks, a suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S. military convoy and detonated his payload on Tuesday morning. The attack killed at least 18 people -...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 5:42 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Decline Watch: Is the U.S. Constitution going out of style?

On Monday, we disussed Ruth Bader Ginsburg's now-controversial interview with an Egyptian television station in which she suggested that the U.S. Constitution may not be the best guide for a country writing its own founding document in the 21st century...

Published Thu, Feb 09 2012 10:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Decline Watch

The dictator's dilemma: To win with 95 percent or 99?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In the category of least-surprising news of the weekend, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was reelected with 97 percent of the vote. The remaining 3 percent was...

Published Mon, Feb 13 2012 11:27 AM by FP Passport

Trickle-down economics for Chinese officials

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Singapore's intensely competent, scrupulously uncorrupt, and slightly dictatorial Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has accepted a 36 percent pay cut, bringing his salary down...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2012 5:15 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Obama announces leaner military strategy

Obama announces leaner military strategy Top news: President Barack Obama announced a new military strategy for the United States in an appearance at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the Joint Chiefs. The U.S. is planning to shrink...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2012 5:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Guest blog: Remembering Chalmers Johnson - By Clyde Prestowitz

I have just learned of the death yesterday of my mentor and friend Chalmers Johnson at his home in Cardiff-by-the-Sea near San Diego. Chal, as he was known to his friends, was a man of many parts -- scholar, teacher, literary critic, activist, conversationalist...

Published Mon, Nov 22 2010 9:01 AM by FP Passport

Bank of America shuts down Angolan embassy's checking account

This seems embarassing : The Angolan Embassy here canceled tonight's celebration planned to mark the country's 35th independence anniversary, following a decision by Bank of America to close the embassy's checking accounts. [...] The Angolan...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 1:46 PM by FP Passport

Putin praises Soviet-era spying

FP's newest contributor , Vladimir Putin, has made stregnthening Russia's defenses a ceterpiece of his reelection campaign. To that effect, during a recent interview, he praised Soviet-era spying in the United States: "You know, when the...

Published Wed, Feb 22 2012 3:20 PM by FP Passport

Highlights from Obama's SOTU address

As John Harwood notes at the New York Times , tonight's address by President Obama was as much a "state of the campaign" as it was a State of the Union. But while the President did focus on hot-button issues such as jobs and the economy...

Published Tue, Jan 24 2012 8:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Barack Obama

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...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 4:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 7:40 AM by FP Passport

George Galloway flatters Assad's media advisor

As my boss Blake Hounshell noted this morning, Syrian activists are having a field day trawling through the hacked e-mails of officials in President Bashar al-Assad's regime. One particularly interesting note was sent by former British parliamentarian...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 3:28 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Dalai Lama to meet with Obama as Beijing grumbles

Dalai Lama to meet with Obama as Beijing grumbles Top story: After weeks of anticipation and amid growing tension between the United States and China, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama today at the White...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 5:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Upcoming: the trial of China's richest man

Chinese entrepreneur Huang Guangyu's rise from street vendor to chairman of Gome, the leading consumer electronics retail chain in China, had all the hallmarks of the classic rags-to-riches tale of modern China -- until it all came tumbling down....

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 7:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: China

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Pakistan bans Facebook over "Everybody Draw Mohammed" page

Morning Brief: Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops

Decline Watch: Is the U.S. Constitution going out of style?

The dictator's dilemma: To win with 95 percent or 99?

Trickle-down economics for Chinese officials

Morning Brief: Obama announces leaner military strategy

Guest blog: Remembering Chalmers Johnson - By Clyde Prestowitz

Bank of America shuts down Angolan embassy's checking account

Putin praises Soviet-era spying

Highlights from Obama's SOTU address

Morning Brief: Obama rejects Keystone pipeline

Rick, we hardly knew ye

George Galloway flatters Assad's media advisor

Morning Brief: Dalai Lama to meet with Obama as Beijing grumbles

Upcoming: the trial of China's richest man