Member 875Why 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. 5 Biggest Revelations of Wikileaks Documents (The Atlantic Wire)26-07-2010 18h39The Atlantic Wire - Six years' worth of secret U.S. documents relating to the war in Afghanistan have been released by Wikileaks. Some news organizations were given the tens of thousands of documents several weeks early so that they could sift through the files and prepare their coverage. Here are what currently appear to be the five biggest things we've learned so far. 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). The Health Benefits of Tears (HuffingtonPost.com)21-07-2010 19h55HuffingtonPost.com - Read Judith Orloff MD's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com On Economic Fatalism and Elections (RealClearPolitics.com)20-07-2010 14h00RealClearPolitics.com - It's an old myth that economics determine elections. Inflation's hidden cost: forcing families to make riskier investments (The Christian Science Monitor)23-07-2010 22h55The Christian Science Monitor - The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) first published a book called “How to Invest Wisely” in 1947. Since then there have been vast changes in the United States and world economies, especially in the financial markets. One of the biggest changes has been the relentless erosion in the purchasing power of the dollar. U.S. War Games Aimed at North Korea (The Atlantic Wire)23-07-2010 22h09The Atlantic Wire - The U.S. and South Korea are running joint military exercises off the Korean peninsula in an attempt to discourage North Korean military aggression-- seen, for example, in the sinking the South Korean vessel Cheonan in March. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the war games "are designed to send a clear message to North Korea that its aggressive behavior must stop." Friday, North Korea threatened a "physical response" if the exercises are not halted. Will the war games ultimately work? What diplomatic subtexts are in play? <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 5274 Member 958 Member 3498 Member 1951 Member 2641 Member 2276 Member 1193 Member 1093 Member 3442 Member 2138 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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