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How to Add Value to the G20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting
The G20 Agriculture Ministers will gather together for their first ever meeting next week in Paris (June 22-23) to discuss potential measures for the G20 governments to endorse regarding …
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The White House Needs a Real Jobs Plan
This was originally published on Monday, June 13. Today the President met with business leaders on his “jobs and competitiveness council,” who suggested more public-private partnerships to …
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Time to Challenge Convention at the IMF
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) I suspect that an endorsement from me may be the kiss of death — but, anyway, Stan Fischer, …
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How the Military and the Civilian Are Blurring in Washington
President Barack Obama after being introduced by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, on Friday December 3, …
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A Distant Sound of Churning
In my last dream of a febrile night, I put my flat-screen TV on top of an old house in town and watched it crash onto the street. There …
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Washington Post Wants Endless War
The Pentagon Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it — if it passes the Senate — …
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Protest in the Golan Heights
Here I am, an hour-and-a-half's drive from the Golan, and I can't figure out what happened there on June 5. There were no independent journalists on either side of …
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Concern Over Republican Embrace of the Ayn Rand Poison
Some say that maybe it is a bad idea to base a political party's ideology on a belief that altruism, democracy and Christianity are “evil.” Others say that maybe …
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Front and (Too) Center
Washington - Poor Mitt Romney. With every poll showing him in the lead for the Republican presidential nomination, his heart must sink. …
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Helms-Burton Act: Resurrecting the Iron Curtain
On March 12, 1996, the United States Congress passed one of the most regressive and draconic foreign policy initiatives in recent memory with the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity …