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Morning Brief: Suicide bombers shatter calm in Iraq

foreignpolicy.com     Jul 28, 2008   90 related          

Top Story ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images In a grim reminder that Iraq remains perilous, at least 50 people were killed and nearly 250 wounded in suicide attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. In Baghdad, three attacks carried out by...                    

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Raymond J. Learsy: Libya Stops Oil Shipments to Switzerland While Russia's Medvedev and...

huffingtonpost.com     Jul 28, 2008   24 related          

The arrogance of oil producers is becoming limitless and increasingly dangerous. Libya, currently supplying 50% of Switzerland's crude oil imports, has halted shipments to Switzerland. You see Switzerland had the audacity and...                    

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How To: Do Business with a Blacklisted Russian Weapons Company

wired.com     Jul 28, 2008   5 related          

We now know that the U.S. Army handed out a sole sourced deal to sell nearly two dozen Russian Mi-17 helicopters to Iraq. But the lingering question is: how Rosoboronexport, the Russian state agency in charge of military...                    

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Hugo Chávez's Jewish Problem

daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com     Jul 28, 2008          

There is an article by Travis Pantin published in Commentary (or the WSJ, your choice of links) which gives an excellent summary of all the anti Semitic tone in the chavista rule that this blog has decried over the years....                    

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A detached and arrogant Hugo Chavez blasts his own best supporters

salon.com     Jul 28, 2008   7 related          

One of the failures of the Chavista revolution is to attempt to create a system, which so little resembles what the average Venezuelan wants out of life or believes in. In fact, Chavez has taken advantage of that buying his...                    

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The Beacon

newmarksdoor.typepad.com     Jul 28, 2008          

The Independent Institute is producing a fine blog, The Beacon. Some of the leading figures in the conservative/libertarian community are posting there. Just to mention a few whose work I'm a little familiar with: David...                    

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Freddie Wilkinson: As Congress Procrastinates, Many Communities Face A Cold Reality

huffingtonpost.com     Jul 28, 2008          

Ten days ago, New Hampshire made headlines by announcing that it would participate in Citgo's Low Cost Heating Oil Program. For 2009, the White House slashed the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program's budget by 22 percent,...                    

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Problems of Leftwing Democracy

robertlindsay.blogspot.com     Jul 28, 2008          

gradual privatization of suitable sectors.I respond:huy, you are correct as far as your first two sentences go. I will deal with the third sentence at the end.This conundrum is why Communists opted for the dictatorship of the...                    

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Hugo Chávez, Union Buster

caracaschronicles.blogspot.com     Jul 28, 2008          

Quico says: You gotta hand it to Chávez. We're almost a decade into this whole mess and somehow he still manages to surprise, to amaze even.Yesterday's little outburst on the perverse power of VTV unions was one for the ages....                    

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Thoroughly Modern Mastodons

dailykos.com     Jul 27, 2008   11 related          

This is adapted from my portion of the Energize America presentation at Netroots Nation, and I'd hoped to provide some expanded notes to go along with the video of that talk. Unfortunately, it appears that only a few minutes of...                    

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