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Goldman Sachs: Friend of Planet Earth
O.K., I have now said something nice about Goldman Sachs. And, there is actually some truth in this title. Some people have pointed out that Goldman Sachs is one …
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DOJ to Seek Dismissal of Rendition Lawsuit Against CIA
The question is: Can the US government force the dismissal of a lawsuit against it simply by claiming that national security would be endangered if the suit went ahead? …
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Forbes Publishes Fiction on Climate Change Debate
Forbes.com has an article up called “The Fiction of Climate Science” (12/4/09). Thanks no doubt to a link from Drudge, it's currently one of the website's “top rated,” "most …
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High Noon in the White House
President Barack Obama noted last week after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the United States “has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades.” While this was …
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Scientists Sound Biomass Alarm; Is Copenhagen Listening?
Current climate legislation and the Kyoto Protocol are undermining the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Or so contends a cautionary article that appeared in October's peer-reviewed journal of …
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In Dubai, Financial Crisis Looms
Dubai, UAE - Last year, when major banks in the U.S. and Europe were teetering on the brink of collapse, Middle Eastern and Asian banks that specialize in Islamic …
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The Dust Bowl of Babylon: Are Crippling Droughts the Next Great Threat to Iraq?
[This report appears in the winter 2009/10 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.]
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Italy: Berlusconi in Hospital After Attack
"Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was attacked after a rally in central Milan today and was taken to hospital with a gash on his upper lip and blood on …
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Argentina: Solar Villages Light Up the Andes
Buenos, Aires - The residents of the Puna, the dry Andean highlands in northern Argentina, are cut off from everything - except the sun. Living on arid land thousands …
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E.J. Dionne Jr. | Obama: Squaring Idealism and Realism
Paris - Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Obama is not a miracle worker, and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. …