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House votes to cut all funding for US Institute of Peace | The Raw Story
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The mind boggles. Sure, USIP is not immune from criticism, but this is sheer intellectual vandalism.

19/02/2011
The Egyptian mirror - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
www.salon.com

'Can you believe that "in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt," private wealth translates into great political power and vice-versa?  What is it like, wonders the curious and concerned [New York] Times reader, to live in a country like that?  No wonder there's an uprising.'

18/02/2011
snopes.com: Barack Obama Kenyan Registration of Birth
www.snopes.com
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I have covered this issue previously, but it is a good summary of the story of the fake Obama birth certificates.

17/02/2011
Complicating the transition in U.S.-Egyptian relations by Daniel Levy | The Middle East Channel
mideast.foreignpolicy.com

Brilliant piece by Levy, who was on Cambridge University Students Union's executive committee with me many years ago.

02/02/2011
The Rest of the Story - By James Traub | Foreign Policy
www.foreignpolicy.com

"Indeed, nowhere else across the spectrum of major foreign-policy issues -- not Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, or China -- has the Obama administration invested so much effort for so little. What killed the process was not a change in the Palestinian position, but in the Israeli one... The Obama administration could just wash its hands of the whole…

31/01/2011
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most of US
www.huffingtonpost.com
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After all, why bother to look at the facts if you already know the Truth?

30/01/2011
The end of US decline — Crooked Timber
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"In geopolitical terms, the US spends a lot more on its military than anyone else (in fact, more than everyone else put together) and (contrary to the beliefs of most Americans) hardly anything on development aid or other efforts at promoting global public goods. The amount of sustainable influence generated as a result appears pretty trivial…

30/01/2011
Supreme Court Mistakenly Used Belgium's Constitution For Last 3 Rulings | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
www.theonion.com
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would have to review two weeks' worth of procedure after determining it had mistakenly based its last three rulings on a copy of the Belgian constitution left in the justices' chambers. "When I presented my case on legal citizenship status under proposed changes to immigration law, I w…

27/01/2011
The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl » Blog Archive » Mass Murder Courtesy of the NRA
www.thewaythefutureblogs.com

"What is a Glock, and what is it designed to be used for? It’s a rapid-fire weapon that can accommodate a 30-bullet clip, and it has only one real use. It’s of very little value for hunting or for Grandma to keep under her pillow to repel burglars. What it is good for is the killing of groups of human beings by a single shooter, and for nothi…

14/01/2011
Why So Many Rich People Don't Feel Very Rich - NYTimes.com
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"...why don’t people at the 90th percentile of the income distribution feel particularly rich? The answer is simple: because any Americans who are richer than this cohort are so *much* richer."

12/01/2011
Carne Ross: Uncomfortable Lessons From the Reaction to WikiLeaks
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"The reactions to WikiLeaks share one abiding characteristic, so obvious that it can easily be overlooked, namely an unwillingness to address with any sophistication or seriousness the complex and everchanging world that the US -- and all of us -- must now deal with. The prevailing and lazy assumption is implied but all too clear: that the fo…

08/01/2011
Sam Harris: A New Year's Resolution for the Rich
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Excellent piece

01/01/2011
Daniel Balsam Quits Job, Makes Living Suing Email Spammers
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Isn't the American legal system amazing?

27/12/2010
Posts From the Past - NYTimes.com
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The best of Five Thirty-Eight.

19/12/2010
Why WikiLeaks Is Bad for Scholars - The Chronicle Review
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I'm not sure that I really agree with Drezner. Many academic international relations specialists are far behind the reality of what is happening anyway. I hope Wikileaks may shake up the better ones and humble the worse ones. Sure, primary materials written now and made available in thirty years' time may become more guarded, but I am no…

07/12/2010
democracyarsenal.org: The Wikileak That Didn't Bark
www.democracyarsenal.org
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This may only be a brief interlude, but it makes for a really interesting moment in which the spotlight is on real foreign policy instead of caricature.

30/11/2010
Wikileaks (#cablegate) - Crikey, what a story | Carne Ross
www.carneross.com

1) this will damage US diplomacy, for sure; 2) it will damage several governments mentioned in the cables, especially Yemen (see this devastating telegram); 3) it will take a while and a lot of promises by US diplomats that their comms are really really secure this time for other diplomats to trust US diplomats with confidences again; 4) the cable…

29/11/2010
George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books
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Some of the books are not in fact by advisers.

13/11/2010
Iraq, war and WikiLeaks: the real story | openDemocracy
www.opendemocracy.net
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Iraq Body Count has patiently and consistently tabulated recorded deaths since the invasion. It has now conducted a preliminary analysis of a sample of the incidents recorded in the documents (including all the larger ones) (see Paul Rogers, “The harvest of war: from pain to gain”, 28 October 2010).This concludes that the logs both confirm the maj…

Former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich: 'Obama Failed to Connect the Dots' -SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
www.spiegel.de

1) We have got an unprecedented degree of concentrated income and wealth at the very top of our society. The top one-tenth of one percent of Americans now makes more than the bottom 120 million. 2) Courtesy of a grotesque opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, we now have virtually unlimited money flowing from the rich and from corpora…

03/11/2010
On Not Being Obliged To Vote Democrat
crookedtimber.org
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Why abstention may be the right choice - with reference to Tuesday's elections, but with wider applicability.

01/11/2010
Twitter / @President of Russia: @Schwarzenegger Thx for ra ...
twitter.com

Genuine tweet message from President Medvedev to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

12/10/2010
democracyarsenal.org: How the Military Boxed Obama in on Afghanistan
www.democracyarsenal.org
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Civilian control of the military - nice idea in theory, not actually practiced in Washington

24/09/2010
Polls, Reporting on "Ground Zero Mosque" May Mislead
www.fivethirtyeight.com

Nate Silver talks sense

01/08/2010
A Street-Level View of the "Ground Zero Mosque"
www.fivethirtyeight.com

Nate Silver talks even more sense

01/08/2010
The only thing we didn't do was give the guy a passport
m.cyprus-mail.com

A Cypriot commentator on how the leader of the Russian spy ring skipped bail: "even by our own high standards of incompetence, what happened was incredible."

04/07/2010
Young Boozer - Republican candidate for State Treasurer in Alabama
www.youngboozerfortreasurer.com
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One should never laugh at a fourth generation politician just because his name strikes you as slightly funny. But sometimes the temptation is irresistible.

02/07/2010
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