Member 1278Why Clinton Cares So Much about an Asian Island Chain (The Atlantic Wire)23-07-2010 22h58The Atlantic Wire - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is getting the U.S. involved in a complex, international dispute over a chain of islands in the South China Sea. China and nearby Asian states have long made competing claims as to who controls the strategically located islands. Speaking at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation in Hanoi, Vietnam, Clinton said that the U.S. has a "national interest" in resolving the issue peacefully. Here's what's going on, why it matters, and what could happen next, according to key journalists and experts. On Democrats' Lost Week (RealClearPolitics.com)25-07-2010 14h00RealClearPolitics.com - It should have been a good week for Democrats. The financial overhaul was signed into law. The extension of unemployment benefits passed. The Democratic Party finally looked like a party that could get things done. Bill to legalize Internet gambling: No dice (The Christian Science Monitor)24-07-2010 02h41The Christian Science Monitor - Fresh from fixing Wall Street’s casinolike ways in high finance, Congress begins work Tuesday on a bill to overturn a 2006 law banning Internet gambling in the US. The measure is being rushed through the House Financial Services Committee on a promise that it would create 30,000 jobs and billions in tax revenue. Analysts Find Little New in WikiLeaks Afghan Docs (The Atlantic Wire)26-07-2010 20h57The Atlantic Wire - "Afghanistan" has four syllables.LeBron is going to the Heat.D'Angelo Barksdale didn't actually commit suicide in prison. Stringer Bell had him killed.Although a document dated 17 October 2004 claims the Red Sox were down 3-0 in a seven-game series with the Yankees, they actually went on to win 4-3. Liberace was gay.The Pathan remains wily.Julian Assange is a clown. Valerie Plame Wilson on 'Countdown to Zero': No Nukes Is Good Nukes (The Nation)24-07-2010 00h20The Nation - The Nation -- The nuclear abolition documentary, Countdown to Zero, opens today in New York and D.C. amid positive reviews, and a major promo push featuring one of its expert witnesses and narrators, Valerie Plame Wilson. A rollout starts next week across the U.S. Here at Media Fix we've been writing about the film for weeks now, and yesterday posted the PSA "call to action" featuring producer Lawrence Bender (who earlier gave us both Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds). <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 1312 Member 233 Member 5606 Member 3383 Member 3107 Member 5202 Member 2413 Member 3601 Member 1841 Member 3082 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 | |
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