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• On peace... and war

  
  TORQOPIA - Abundance All Around Us — Authority: 130
  I just watched President Obamas Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. He spans the arc from "the world as it is," where war is sometimes necessary, to what nations and individuals can do to build a peace where people are not free solely of violence but also of want, a world where their fundamental rights are respected. ...
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• Do Americans Understand Pakistani Security Better than the Pakistanis?

  
  BernardFinel.com — Authority: 133
  Sometimes you can’t improve on an insight.  From Michael Crowley ( h/t Michael Cohen): The Pakistan Puzzle | The New Republic In a New York Times op-ed today largely in support of Obama’s Afghanistan plan, Nate Fick of the Center for a New American Security writes: Progress depends on two political ...
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• Starting Over in Afghanistan

  
  Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Authority: 742
  Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is in Germany seeking additional international troops to assist in Afghanistan, reports Deutche Welle , but his spin isnt very encouraging. Said Holbrooke: "The whole thing was uncoordinated and did not get us very far. The upshot is that in the ninth year of the war we are starting from ...
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• Religious Anti-Torture Group Urges Holder to Produce OPR Report

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  At the beginning of this month, I noted that Attorney General Eric Holder, despite an explicit promise to Congress to produce by the end of last month the much-awaited ethics report from the Office of Professional Responsibility on the work of Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted the so-called “torture ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• Democrats Get Out Their Vote — By Slashing Funds For Jailing Illegal Immigrants

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 137
  The Party of Corruption strikes again. You see, illegal aliens can’t vote if they are in prison, and all the polls show that real Americans aren’t going to vote for Democrats next year, so Democrats need to find (or manufacture) votes elsewhere:WASHINGTON – California and other financially strapped states will ...
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• Pro-Israel Lobby Group’s Iran Petition Features Lots of Questionable Names

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Earlier today, the Israel Project — a pro-Israel organization that endorses tough measures against Iran’s nuclear program — sent out a release announcing substantial support for placing sanctions on Iran. A petition issued by the Israel Project to be sent to “every ambassador to the U.S., all UN member ...
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• McChrystal’s Response on Force Size Poses More Questions Than it Answers

  
  BernardFinel.com — Authority: 133
  From Ackerman’s coverage of McChrystal Testimony: Even Further Clarification on Afghan Security Force End-Strength « The Washington Independent During today’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) asked if an increase to 400,000 Afghan soldiers and police — that ...
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• The Insanity Of The WSJ’s ‘Real Nuclear World’

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 747
  The lead editorial from the Wall Street Journal today takes on President Obama’s vision of a “world without nuclear weapons,” claiming his disarmament agenda is out of touch with “ the real nuclear world .” Despite being on the verge of signing a new START treaty with the Russians, the Journal claims ...
  11 hours ago

• Homeland Security hearing lays out immigration battle ahead

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 641
  A House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday morning highlighted the sharp divide in Congress over illegal immigration and what should be done about it, presaging the difficult fight ahead when Congress eventually begins to tackle proposals for comprehensive immigration reform. Reps. Loretta Sanchez ...
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• Taking the mission to secure America to Copenhagen

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 564
  Guest post by Jonathan Powers and Robert Diamond Jon Powers is the Chief Operating Officer of the Truman National Security Project . He is a veteran of the Gulf War, serving as an officer in the United States Army, and the founder of War Kids Relief . He was previously Veterans Program ...
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• Council on Foreign Relations Report on R2P

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 577
  by Kenneth Anderson President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech yesterday made reference to the moral authority, under the ethics of the just war, for armed humanitarian intervention in some situations.  It is a topic that has been debated and discussed as a matter of international law for, well, a long time, but ...
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• How You Know Obama’s Winning

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Just an addendum to Dave’s insightful post : when you see conservatives lauding President Obama’s Nobel speech or his Afghanistan policy by, say, comparing something to George W. Bush’s speeches, that’s how you know Obama is winning. Appropriation and recontextualization is the tribute political vice plays to ...
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• Obama’s Succinct Description Of Neoconservatism: ‘The Satisfying Purity Of Indignation’

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 747
  Two responses from prominent neoconservatives on President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech reveal something very positive about Obama’s reframing of U.S. national security. Comparing passages from the Oslo speech and George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, Bill Kristol seems to think that it’s ...
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• The CIA Blackwater partnership

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 555
  NY Times: Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A. ’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company ...
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• STFU: Nota Bene #2009-44

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 613
  Gonna try something different at the beginning of each NB issue. I’ll share a quote by somebody who’ll be named at the end of the post. Here’s a quote to start with: “One of the reasons that I feel I even have a voice that I can sing with is because my purpose in life is to save cows.” Now on to the links ...
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• EPA Greenhouse Gas Ruling Could Lead To Stricter Emissions Standards

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 553
  EPA Chief says the agency has been fighting to make up for lost time on its climate change policies. A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling that greenhouse gases pose a public health threat has set the stage for new emission regulations while setting off a battle in Congress and howls of protest from ...
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• Operation Free

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 135
  We are packing our bags and heading east next week to join the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. A delegation of veterans from OpFree will be there to make sure the world understands the grave threat climate change poses to global security. We know that climate change makes the world a more dangerous place and ...
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• Obama’a Nobel Speech

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  By Benjamin H. Friedman I have two complaints about the President’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, one factual, one theoretical. The first concerns his repetition of the common claim that we live in a world of growing instability and civil war. The president said: The resurgence of ethnic or sectarian conflicts; ...
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• UK, US talked of toppling Saddam in 2001

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec.11 (ANI): Britain and the US were considering measures to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime in 2001, two years before the second Gulf War, the head of MI6 has said.Sir John Sawers, who acted as Tony Blair’s private secretary for foreign affairs in the run-up to the Iraq invasion in March 2003, [...]
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