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Nidal Malik Hasan case: Are Army psychiatrists overwhelmed?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Gordon Lubold - Nov. 06 (News Report) - The case of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is the primary suspect in the Fort Hood shooting spree Thursday that killed 13 people, is pointing up the enormous need to help soldiers overwhelmed by the stress – or even the prospect – of serving in wartime. As the military begins its eighth year of the war on terror, much of the focus has been on the inability to fully support the growing number of troops diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. But the events at Fort Hood cast the issue even wider.

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Iran's secret site is the missing piece in its nuclear puzzle

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Grier - Sep. 29 (News Report) - Iran's newly revealed second centrifuge plant hidden in a mountainside fits neatly into Tehran's nuclear program, as if it were a long-missing piece to a jigsaw puzzle that's almost complete. That is because Western intelligence analysts and experts outside government have long suspected that if Iran wanted to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon, it would have to do so at a hidden facility. Known Iranian nuclear sites are too closely watched to serve that purpose.

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Supreme Court justices question campaign finance law

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Warren Richey - Sep. 10 (News Report) - The US Supreme Court appears poised to pare back campaign finance reform measures that sharply restrict corporate expenditures during federal campaigns. At issue in a special hearing Wednesday was whether the court should strike down two legal precedents that bar corporations from spending their general treasury funds on political speech during campaign season.

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Key Republicans bail on ‘Obama-care’; Dems’ options narrow

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Linda Feldmann - Sep. 01 (News Report) - As key Republicans grow increasingly hostile to President Obama’s plans for healthcare reform, the Democrats are edging toward a go-it-alone approach to legislation.

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What the West needs in Afghanistan: humility

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Greg Mills - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - ... if the experience in Afghanistan and other attempts at state-building teach anything, it is of the need to get the strategy and politics right first. At the onset of such missions, the right questions have to be asked: "For what purpose?", "How?", and "How long?" With the Afghan presidential election upcoming on Aug. 20 and Western forces contemplating how best to support local allies, these questions are as relevant today as they were at the start of the mission in 2001.

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Dostum's return to Afghanistan: a nod to 'warlord politics'

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has brought a notorious warlord and influential backer out of exile just ahead of Thursday's presidential vote – a sign that old-style kingmaking continues to play a powerful role even as the country tries to move to a more modern form of campaigning.

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Health reform 101: what is in the bills

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Grier - Aug. 11 (News Analysis) - President Obama’s attempt to reform the US healthcare system is one of the most ambitious and complicated legislative efforts Washington has seen in decades. At the same time, the national debate over the effort has become so loud and confusing that ordinary voters may have trouble figuring out what’s really going on.

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Pakistan's Christians protest lack of protection after deadly rampage

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Issam Ahmed - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Lahore, Pakistan - After an anti-Christian rampage left eight people dead in the town of Gojra over the weekend, Pakistani authorities arrested 100 people and offered $6,000 in compensation to victims' families in an effort to reassure the country's

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Israel's Jerusalem Evictions Defy Obama, Undermine Peace Process

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Dan Murphy - Aug. 03 (News) - On Monday, three people protesting the eviction were arrested by the police. The two families had lived in the homes for almost 50 years. They moved into the neighborhood after being evicted from their homes in West Jerusalem in 1947 by Israeli forces.

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Afghan, Pakistani conflicts spilling into Central Asian states?

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Abdujalil Abdurasulov - Jul. 31 (News Report) - A spate of militant clashes in Tajikistan may indicate that the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan are spilling beyond their borders – a top concern for neighboring Central Asian nations and Russia.

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Why Iran's conservatives are airing their dirty laundry

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Iason Athanasiadis - Jul. 29 (News Report) - In the final days before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inauguration next week, splits among the country's conservative elite have become increasingly conspicuous. Sometimes portrayed as a lackey for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, he appears to be jockeying for power and authority – publicly defying Ayatollah Khamenei, sacking his intelligence minister less than a week before his Cabinet would have been dissolved anyway, and angering fellow conservatives by pressing for the broadcast of confessions forced from political prisoners.

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Obama’s healthcare vote delayed. The reason: Democrats.

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Gail Russell Chaddock - Jul. 24 (News Analysis) - It’s official. The Senate is giving up on moving comprehensive healthcare legislation this summer. It means that President Obama’s goal of getting to a vote by the August recess is now out of reach.

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As Obama presses health reform, GOP unifies

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Grier - Jul. 16 (News Report) - Obama wants the House and Senate to pass versions of health legislation before the August recess. But Republican senators say that the Senate's proposal would only make things worse.

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Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn't that a problem?

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Dan Lawton - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - After I posed that question, two faculty railed against me. That's a sure sign that universities should address the lack of ideological diversity.

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British Embassy row: Why Iran's hard-liners are inviting isolation

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Dan Murphy - Jul. 04 (News Analysis) - A senior cleric called Friday for British Embassy employees to be tried for allegedly inciting mass protests. The move signals a heightened effort to portray recent unrest as a foreign plot.

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It’s crunch time for Obama’s agenda

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Linda Feldmann - Jul. 02 (News Analysis) - By the end of the month, it should be clear whether President Obama’s top legislative initiatives – healthcare reform and climate-change legislation – are on track. They don’t need to be signed and sealed, but both require significant progress in Congress during this next stretch before the August recess, analysts say.

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View from Europe: Obama tough enough on Iran

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Robert Marquand - Jun. 24 (News Analysis) - Republican critics are calling it "timidity." But the Obama administration's policy of "prudence" toward Iran's postelection protests gets high marks from Iranian specialists in Europe.

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The private health industry's time is up

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Bernie Sanders - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - Our current private health insurance system is the most costly, wasteful, complicated, and bureaucratic in the world. But in America, the people who have to navigate that maze are the lucky ones. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. At a time when 60 million people, including many with insurance, do not have access to a medical home base, more than 18,000 Americans die every year from preventable illnesses. That is six times the number who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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In Obama's speech, a new approach to Middle East: candor

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Grier - Jun. 05 (News Report) - Did President Obama in his Cairo speech signal a new toughness towards the Arab-Israeli peace process? Past presidents have opposed Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In Cairo, Mr. Obama said plainly that the US will not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity.

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The marketing of Sonia Sotomayor

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Linda Feldmann - May. 29 (News Analysis) - Liberal activists who have expressed reservations about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have done her a favor. Instead of coming across as an unalloyed darling of the left, cheered by liberals and scorned by conservatives, she is now politically positioned in the “middle” — exactly where a high court hopeful awaiting confirmation hearings wants to be.

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Flags of caution over Sotomayor

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By John C. Eastman - May. 28 (Opinion) - At first blush, it appears that President Obama has honored his campaign pledge to nominate judges based on their ability to empathize with the downtrodden. The question now, for the Senate, is to determine whether the empathic skills of his first nominee to the high Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, would enhance the court's ability to faithfully apply the law or would instead amount to an impermissible thumb on the scales of justice.

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What can the US do about North Korea?

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Grier - May. 26 (News Analysis) - For the White House, the problem now could be figuring out precisely how the explosion changes the nature of the threat from North Korea's secretive regime – and what, if anything, the US can do about it.

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Awaiting better times, white-collar workers look to blue-collar jobs

Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Michael B. Farrell - May. 23 (Special Report) - As many educated and formerly well-paid workers become restless living on unemployment benefits and frustrated over fruitless job searches, some are opting for lower skilled jobs that pay less but will help cover monthly bills or simply keep them busy.

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New auto standards: the start of Obama’s green revolution

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Mark Trumbull - May. 21 (News Report) - One analysis forecasts a bright future for green jobs. The number of jobs tied to renewable energy or energy efficiency could surge in the next two decades to more than four times the 8.5 million jobs supported by those sectors in 2006, according to projections by the American Solar Energy Society. These numbers include indirect jobs such as accountants and truck drivers employed by clean-energy ventures.

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Could Taliban get keys to Pakistan's A-bomb?

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - May. 16 (News Analysis) - International concerns are mounting again about the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons as fighting rages with the Taliban. But thanks to safeguards, experts worry much less about the Islamic fighters in the hills making off with a warhead. It's the radicals among the educated – potential insiders – who are in a more realistic position to abscond with nuclear material and know how to use it.

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