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Obama on climate change: 'no time to waste' (text)
29 minutes ago
by Johanna Neuman
President Obama arrived in Denmark this morning to try to close the deal on a global climate change agreement. With his path cleared by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- who promised help in raising $100 billion for developing nations to combat global warming, Obama sought to convince dubious de ...
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Our Honest Ally, the Government of Pakistan
2 hours ago
by Doug Bandow
Reports antiwar.com: The reverberations from the Pakistani Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling, stripping members of the Zardari government of legal immunity for past crimes, will be felt for a long time in Pakistan, but the first glimpse came today, when the government was forced to cancel a high prof ...
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The Answer to Why They Hate Us
2 hours ago
by Doug Bandow
The five Americans arrested in Pakistan for apparently planning on joining al-Qaeda didn’t turn against their country because it was so free. They were angry because they perceived it to be attacking Muslims. Writes Chuck Pena: The answer – which is a microcosm for larger U.S. foreign policy – is st ...
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Should the US Pull Out of South Korea (2): No
4 hours ago
by Robert E Kelly
(Part one of this post, in favor of leaving, is here.) US SecDef Gates recently reaffirmed in very strong language the US commitment to Korean security. This served as a catalyst to extensive discussions among my colleagues about the value of the US commitment to SK. This is part 2 of the debate. My ...
Asian Security Blog - asiansecurityblog.wordpress.com · 1 reference
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Copenhagen Cheers as Chavez Condemns Capitalism
4 hours ago
by Rachel
If you had any doubt that environmentalism was not the New Socialism, then please watch the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela get enthusiastic ovations from the Copenhagen delegates as he quotes Karl Marx. Hugo Chavez: “We could say that there is a ghost lurking. To paraphrase Karl M ...
Thoughts From A ... - thoughtsfromaconservativemom.com
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What is Cap and Trade for Carbon Emissions?
8 hours ago
by Sean Kinney
Is it an attempt to create a commodity market for something of (no?) value or is it a not so hidden tax or both or something else entirely? Lots of opinions, lots of posturing from pundits and politicians. Get the facts for yourself and be informed. Visit the non-partisan website www.congress.org’s ...
Ohioans for Pickens Plan - ohioans4pickensplan.wordpress.com
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Playing The Hand We’re Dealt
9 hours ago
by Janus
I think that by and large, most actors on the world’s stage are rational people with a relatively level head and a healthy sense of self-interest, but even the most rational of people will jump at the chance to score a few points when they see an opportunity. In Obama, they see opportunities. Lots o ...
The Blog of a Secular ... - secularconservative.net · 7 references
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Agreement in Copenhagen and the US Senate
12 hours ago
by Robert Merkel
Peter Wood notes an American attempt to insert a watering-down of developed-world commitments into one of the draft texts to, essentially, whatever the countries of the developed world feel like promising. While it’s easy to be disgusted at this, as Peter notes, any international treaty relies upon ...
Larvatus Prodeo - larvatusprodeo.net · Rank: 5,098 · 436 references
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