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Jahar's World
www.rollingstone.com
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The Rolling Stone article about the Boston bomber.

23/07/2013
If Detroit were a country, would it be a failed state?
blog.foreignpolicy.com
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Not quite, apparently.

20/07/2013
Seward's Other Folly: America's First Encrypted Cable (PDF)
www.nsa.gov
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Brilliant account of the $19,500 bill for an 1866 telegram to Napoleon III (which in fact was not delivered to him).

Should The New York Times call out lying politicians?
publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com
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The moral and ethical poverty of US media revealed!

13/01/2012
Jason O Mahony » Blog Archive » 5 things that scare the crap out of me about US politics.
jasonomahony.ie
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1. The presence of hate in politics. 2. Money matters too much. 3. Refusing to even listen to the other guy. 4. The micro managing of politics. 5. The disparaging of experience and learning.

26/08/2011
Getting to Crazy - NYTimes.com (Paul Krugman)
www.nytimes.com
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"A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. “Has the G.O.P. gone insane?” they ask. Why, yes, it has. But this isn’t something that just happened, it’s the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades. Anyone surprised by the extremism and irresponsibility now on display either hasn’t been …

15/07/2011
Republican bill to ban energy-saving lightbulbs fades
www.guardian.co.uk
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Republicans fail in bid to defend freedom from energy-saving lightbulbs.

13/07/2011
America: The Grim Truth: Information Clearing House - ICH
www.informationclearinghouse.info

"Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singapore…

Carne Ross: Uncomfortable Lessons From the Reaction to WikiLeaks
www.huffingtonpost.com
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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
Posts From the Past - NYTimes.com
fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
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The best of Five Thirty-Eight.

19/12/2010
Why WikiLeaks Is Bad for Scholars - The Chronicle Review
chronicle.com

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
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
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