Foreign Affairs

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• Got a few bills to pay? Youre not alone

  
  ITALY Magazine — Authority: 479
  Italian utility companies are not usually super-efficient at disconnecting the services of late payers but this week a water company acted quickly and cut off an important client – the legendary US Sixth Fleet, which operates in the Mediterranean Sea out of the port of Gaeta [Latina]. By doing so the company nearly ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  Thanksgiving is undoubtedly America’s best indigenous tradition, and I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday. Even bloggers must rest, however, so things will be a little slow around here for the next few days. Random Posts... Easy Like Sunday Morning: Drunken Sunday Morning Edition Eight Steps Towards A ...
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• Standard Operating Procedure

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  Michael Crowley ruins an otherwise good post on the Obama administration’s engagement with Russia over the Iranian nuclear program with this aside: But don’t pour those vodka shots just yet: There’s still plenty of reason for skepticism about Russia’s ultimate intentions. It’s never easy to divine ...
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• Yeah, another reason to raise taxes on the rich

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  Via Meteor Blades at Daily Kos is Sam Pizzigati explaining that the top 1 percent of income earners have a ridiculously low state and local tax burden relative to their low and middle-income fellow citizens: America’s most affluent 1 percent now pay, on average, just 6.4 percent of their incomes in state and ...
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• America Swallows Prime Minister Singh’s ‘Lies’ on Kashmir: The Frontier Post, Pakistan

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  The battle for Kashmir: While it remains one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood conflicts on the planet, it is also one of the most dangerous and unpredictable – and a major threat to the battle against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. This editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post , a newspaper published near ...
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• Partycrashing the White House

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 142
  Who says you can’t crash an exclusive White House party ? A screen capture of a photo posted to Facebook after Tuesday night’s state dinner. A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with ...
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• The Shine Is Tarnishing – The True Obama Appears

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 549
  Well, it seems like it is finally happening. The world community to which Obama pandered during the campaign is starting to realize what many Americans now know (and some of us always did): He’s not all he’s cracked up to be. In this article from Spiegel , Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World ...
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• Bad news for the government on Afghan torture issue

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 545
  A number of developments this morning that are not good for the Conservatives.... 1. Theres a poll out indicating that Canadians are overwhelmingly buying Richard Colvins side of the story: Canadians arent buying the Harper governments assertion that theres no credible evidence Afghan detainees were tortured, a ...
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• Does our Foreign policy lead to torture?

  
  Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! — Authority: 135
  Human Rights Watch condemns British role in Pakistan Whilst David Miliband the Foreign Secretary and South Shields MP battle with High Court judges to keep the whole of the Binyam Mohamed affair tightly under wraps the campaigning Human Rights Watch puts additional pressure on the Foreign Office and the ...
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• Green Movement supports sanctions on Iran?

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 532
  I just read a Time article which discussed the Green Movement reaching out to the US for help. Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who is lives in exile in Europe, was sent to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, by the opposition/Green Movement to discuss matters of how to deal with Iran. He urges the U.S. to ...
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• Warfare & welfare: The spending never stops

  
  Tim White Listens — Authority: 139
  The NYTimes Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt report : President Obama said Tuesday that he was determined to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, and his aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional troops there even as they cautioned that the final number remained in flux. ...
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• Links and Thanksgiving

  
  And Rightly So... — Authority: 119
  Pretty soon I’ll be running down to Virginia to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. As usual, this will involve lots of eating and watching football, the latter featuring the annual Commonwealth Cup between my alma mater Virginia Tech and Thomas Jefferson’s creation, the University of Virginia. Thanksgiving ...
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• As a Student of Realpolitik, Obama’s Catching On Fast: Dziennik, Poland

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  In the realm of getting the job done – principle be damned – how is President Obama doing? According to columnist Zbigniew Parafianowicz of Poland’s Dziennik newspaper, the brass tacks deal-making Barack Obama has been pursuing shows that he’s adjusting well to the inevitable compromises of power. For ...
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• France delivers cutting edge warship to Russia

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 521
  by JasonWhen the Soviet Union collapsed it took with it its robust navy. For the republic the immediate years that followed, teetered on disintegration. Russia has climbed it way towards stability since then and has long coveted a deep water warship capable of amphibious assaults with state of the art naval fire ...
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• Glenn Beck – hero or villain?

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  Conor thinks it’s a good sign that “prudent conservatives and libertarians are growing uncomfortable with Mr. Beck’s rhetoric.”  I agree, but for entirely different reasons . Related posts... Glenn Beck and Southpark Beck’s Moment Prospects for Reclaiming Intellectual Conservatism
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• One green to rule them all…

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  I have been pondering the issue of global warming lately.  I generally take a cautious position when it comes to climate change.  I am first of all uncertain as to what portion of climate change can be attributed to human activity, but also cautious about assuming that simply doing nothing is the proper course.  If ...
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• Jumping To Conclusions

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  Thanks to Jaybird, who pointed out this story .  After all the speculation that the death of a census worker was fueled by anti-government extremism and how the Tea Party movement (whatever its faults) was a vanguard for a violent anti-government uprising, it now appears that the killing was a suicide made to look ...
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• About That “Reset” Button for Foreign Affairs

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 571
  Well, it hasn’t worked - from Der Spiegel (for you liberals out there, that is a German - ie, foreign, ie better-than-America-in-your-view - magazine): Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new ...
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• Canada Gives Backing to Rwanda’s Bid to Join Commonwealth

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Canada has said it supports Rwanda’s bid to join the 53-nation commonwealth with just a  few days remaining before nations comprising mainly of former British colonies decide on the fate of the East African country. According to the Canadian media, the Ottawa Citizen quoting the Canadian Department of Foreign ...
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• Obama To Announce Afghanistan Plans Within Days

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 679
  Shortly after Thanksgiving, we should know what the President has decided to do in Afghanistan: WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama held a final strategy session with top aides on whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and plans to announce his decision within days, the White House said. NBC News reported ...
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