Monday, December 7

Alden Pyle in Pakistan, Part 1

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Client State. Definition: A country that is dependent on the economic or military support of a larger, more powerful country Setting the...
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Sunday, December 6

Pirate Bourse: Somali pirates turn to capitalism to invest their hijacked millions

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"We've made piracy a community activity" I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this report from Sam Gustin at Daily Fin...
Saturday, December 5

Copenhagen climate change treaty: The fix is in

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Today's Washington Post reports: President Obama will attend the high-level portion of international climate talks in Copenhagen on De...
Saturday, November 28

Gee Rajeev, don't stand on ceremony; tell us what you really think about Manmohan Singh's visit with Barack Obama

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The American news media, which is over a barrel when it comes to reporting on the interactions between China, India, and Pakistan, have seiz...
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Wednesday, November 25

How the U.S. government built a perpetual-motion war machine in Afghanistan and sacrificed American values in the process

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In July 2008 Mark Mazzetti , one of the great American journalists to report on U.S. defense issues in the post-9/11 era, wrote for The New ...

Starting Monday John Batchelor Show goes to seven nights a week

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Well, John Batchelor is finally back where he started in 2001 -- back on New York City's 77 WABC-AM weeknights from 9 PM to 1 AM. The ...
Saturday, November 21

Pakistan-U.S. relations: Why General Stanley McChrystal is going straight to hell

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On or about August 30, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates received a detailed assessment of the military situation in Afghanistan that...
Monday, November 16

Swine flu! Plague! Ukraine presidential politics!

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A colleague sent me this November 15 news item from Britain's Daily Express headlined MILLION HIT BY "PLAGUE WORSE THAN SWINE FLU...
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