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• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
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• India: Prime Ministers US Visit

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Kamla Bhatt compiles a media roundup on Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singhs ongoing visit to USA.
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• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 592
  Iran is making it harder to be a dissident. Violence continues in Afghanistan as President Obama nears an announcement on the war strategy there. The election in Iraq in January will probably not happen at that time. Eight people in Minnesota have been charged with recruiting terrorists for Somalia. Gov. ...
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• Obama pays a visit to his countrys banker

  
  Observing Japan — Authority: 107
  I think Saturday Night Live captures the worst fears of many Japanese elites in this sketch. But, then again, as John Maynard Keynes is supposed to have said, "If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has."
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• Op-Ed Columnist: Obama in His Labyrinth

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Roger Cohen
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• Obama Issues Sharp Rebuke of Mugabe

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  In honoring Zimbabwe’s tenacious women protesters at the White House on Monday, President Obama bluntly referred to Zimbabwe’s president as a dictator.
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• Mark Sanford Impeachment Watch

  
  Myron's Mixer — Authority: 110
  As one former governor makes the rounds hawking her new book, including a stop at Fort Bragg, a notable sitting governor is getting fitted for his impeachment. Last week, a panel formed to consider the impeachment of S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford for skipping out on his job for a full week and not telling anybody. I’m ...
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• President Obama represented our economic failures in Asia

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 520
  by JasonAnd it is because of that glaring fact that he was unable to do anything in China as an American President. Bruce Nussbaum explains why.Business Week | President Obama’s Asia FailureObama came home empty-handed. He made little headway in his single most important mission—China’s revaluation of its ...
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• U.K. Documents Show Friction With U.S. on Iraq

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  The documents have revealed animosity among senior British officers toward U.S. military commanders in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq.
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• United Provinces

  
  Athens & Jerusalem — Authority: 430
  Maybe the proper model for the European Union is the United Provinces - a completely tangled mess of local authorities exercising veto power on the central government. Except the UP had Holland & Amsterdam as the driving motors to get things done, and even a self-confident Germany wouldnt be quite so powerful ...
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• Why Did Barack Obama Go to China?

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 804
  American troops watch President Barack Obama in South Korea (White House photo) James Fallows has a very interesting five-part series of posts ( one , two , three , four , five ) making the case that the U.S. media has been unfair in its portrayals of Barack Obama’s trip to China and that things actually went ...
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• Obama’s Warming to China Seen as Slight in India

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  India sees a warmer relationship between Washington and Beijing under the Obama administration as a threat to its rise as a global power.
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• Polling Wars: Hawks vs. Doves

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 155
  Polling Wars: Hawks vs. Doves Source: Pew Research Center Though most Americans are not ready to cut and run, an increasing number are having second thoughts about U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Pew Research Center’s November poll finds the number saying the initial decision to use force in that country was ...
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• Afghanistan: UK tends to quit

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Dafydd talks about the slump of the Afghan campaigns popularity among the British public, media and officials - ahead of upcoming elections in the United Kingdom.
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• Afghanistan: Corruption, corruption

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Peter Marton reacts to the news that the US could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for projects, and says that corruption in this country often is a consequence of the US policies.
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• When satire beats scholarship

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 601
  It took me forty pages of pretty dense prose to explain why Chinas massive dollar holdings do not translate into increased foreign policy leverage. Over the weekend, Saturday Night Lives cold open managed to summarize the subtleties of the Sino-American economic relationship in under seven minutes .  Go ahead ...
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• Brazil Defends Visit of Iranian Leader

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  Brazil’s decision to host Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was viewed as a signal of the country’s ambitions to become a bigger player in global diplomacy.
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• Trinidad & Tobago: Loss of Mind?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  From the tobacco legislation to the carbon footprint post-CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago, Coffeewallah asks: “Has everybody in this country lost their cotton picking minds?”
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• Hugo Chavez’s Strange Speech

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 804
  I think an underrated success of the Obama administration has been the way he pulled us back from the brink of a pointless Cold War dynamic the Bush administration had landed us in in South America. And he did it pretty easily—basically just resolving to stay out of any wars of words with Hugo Chavez, shake hands, ...
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• Egypt: Alaa Mubarak for President?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Several names have been thrown in the pool of candidates for Egypts 2011 presidential elections; In September 2005 Ayman Nour of Al Ghad Party and Noman Gomaa of New Wafd Party nominated themselves against President Hosni Mubarak . Nour was charged with fraud and Gomaa was accused of insanity! Since ...
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