The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: How the OSCE Can Contribute to Energy Security 01/12/10 AM: Armenian Journalists Face Election Violence, Harassment 01/12/10 AZ: Ankara can follow Baku in creating good relations with Israel – Azerbaijani MP 01/15/10 BG: Protests …
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Contrarian Investor Sees Economic Crash in China by David Barboza Friday, January 8, 2010 James S. Chanos built one of the largest fortunes on Wall Street by foreseeing the collapse of Enron and other highflying companies whose stories were too good to be true. Now Mr. Chanos, a wealthy hedge fund investor, is working to …
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Erudite, Itself Out of Balance, Secoond Tier Reading January 8, 2010 Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth This is one of three books I bought to reflect on the same generic topic, the other two are Power & Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat and To Lead the World: American Strategy after …
Bubba Book January 6, 2010 Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, Stephen John Stedman EDIT of 7 Jan 09. I got halfway through another book last night and now understand the Princeton-based idea that the US has enough power to demand changes and that earlier “balance of power” constraints might not apply. On the one hand, this …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Turkey Brings Up Gaza Issue In Last Meeting Of UN Security Council 01/03/10 BG: Bulgaria Interior Launches New Mass Anti-Criminal Action 01/04/10 HR: Croatia PM overcomes crisis on road to joining EU 01/05/10 IL: …
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By Gideon Rachman Published: January 5 2010 Ever since 1945, the US has regarded itself as the leader of the “free world”. But the Obama administration is facing an unexpected and unwelcome development in global politics. Four of the biggest and most strategically important democracies in the developing world – Brazil, India, South Africa and …
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Phi Beta Iota: We now know that no one briefed the White House on the fact that Iraq was deeply divided between Sunnis in power and Shi-ites under repression. We have to ask ourselves if anyone has figured out that Azerbaijan is the other Shi’ite majority nation. Iran starts to introduce visa-free regime with Azerbaijan …
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