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Why Hillary Clinton babies Indonesia and bullies Pakistan

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By John Hughes - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Indonesia earlier this year, she said: "If you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity, and women's rights can coexist, go to Indonesia." When she visited Pakistan recently, she was polite but much more critical in her words, basically accusing some government officials of sheltering Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists.

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Obama China Trip: Human Rights Activists Face Detention, Warnings

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Peter Ford - Nov. 13 (News) - While President Obama meets Chinese leaders and converses with handpicked groups of youths on his visit to China next week, another group of citizens expect to be staring at the walls of their apartments.

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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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Obama watched documentary last night? FOX botched this one… | csmonitor.com

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:34:09 -0800

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Afghanistan election: Karzai win spurs plans to improve governance

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Nov. 02 (News Report) - The Afghan elections have officially ended, and President Hamid Karzai will hold on to his office for five more years, the election commission declared Monday after rival Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of the race. The fraud-ridden saga has diminished the stature of both Mr. Karzai and the international community in Kabul, and the result brings no mandate but instead raises further proposals for forcing more government accountability.

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Did President Clinton meet N. Korea's Kim Jong-il or his look-alike?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Donald Kirk - Oct. 30 (News Report) - The North Korean leader may be using look-alikes to hide his poor health. One analyst says that when President Clinton visited in August, he met with an actor, not Kim Jong-il.

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Islamic countries push a global 'blasphemy' law

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Oct. 28 (Editorial) - Remember the Danish "Muhammad cartoons" that set off riots by offended Muslims more than three years ago? The debate pitted freedom of press and speech against notions of freedom from insult of one's religion. It rages still – but now in a forum with international legal implications.

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Taliban attack UN Kabul guesthouse in attempt to upend Afghan runoff

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Julius Cavendish - Oct. 28 (News Report) - Taliban gunmen stormed a private guesthouse in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in a bloody predawn attack Wednesday that killed six United Nations staff and signaled a clear intent to disrupt the upcoming presidential runoff. The United States embassy in Kabul confirmed that at least one of the dead was an American.

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Senate healthcare bill revives public option. But can it pass?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Oct. 27 (News Analysis) - A public option in healthcare may be OK with Senate majority leader Harry Reid. But it has yet to pass muster with a more important audience: the full Senate itself. Senator Reid announced Monday that he will send to the Senate floor a healthcare-reform bill that includes the option government-run insurance plan – though states could opt out if they wished. Yet all indications are that the Nevada Democrat remains just short of the crucial threshold of 60 votes needed to defeat a likely Republican filibuster.

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US, Pakistan agree to disagree on Waziristan offensive

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Issam Ahmed - Oct. 19 (News Analysis) - "As the Pakistani Army continues its massive offensive against the Taliban's base in South Waziristan, top US officials including CENTCOM chief David Petraeus and Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts, are meeting with military and civilian leaders here. While the Army's action is in line with US encouragement to rout out the militants, key differences appear to remain between the US and Pakistan on how to tackle the insurgency".

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Afghanistan election outcome: Karzai could face runoff.

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Oct. 17 (News Analysis) - Sometime this weekend, the two election bodies running Afghanistan’s fraud-riddled presidential vote are expected to home in on a final percentage of votes won by President Hamid Karzai back in August – minus the funny business. If his number dips below 50 – which appears increasingly possible – the Afghan Constitution calls for a runoff vote in two weeks.

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La. interracial marriage: Is life tougher for biracial kids?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Oct. 16 (News Analysis) - Researchers are finding that multiracial kids can sometimes be better socially adjusted than single-race offspring. And with the high-profile success of multiracial progeny such as Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, and President Obama (who at his first press conference as president described himself as a "mutt"), stereotypes about the split world of the "tragic mulatto" have long fallen by the wayside.

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Fresh Pakistan attacks underscore reach of Taliban

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Issam Ahmed - Oct. 15 (News Report) - A series of deadly attacks apparently aimed at testing the resolve of Pakistan's security forces ahead of a planned offensive against militants in South Waziristan left more than 30 dead on Thursday. Two of the targets had been attacked before, underscoring the reach of the Taliban, which claimed responsibility, and the failure of security forces to secure high-profile locations.

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Healthcare tests Obama’s grasp of Capitol Hill game

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Linda Feldmann - Oct. 05 (News Analysis) - If President Obama’s efforts to reform the US healthcare system were judged Olympic-style – like, say, diving or gymnastics – his score would have to factor in the highest degree of difficulty.

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Why China is unlikely to back Iran sanctions

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Ford - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - China is showing no appetite for the tougher sanctions that Western leaders have been threatening against Iran over its nuclear program, and would likely veto any United Nations effort to impose a stiffer embargo even if Thursday's talks between US Security Council members and Iran go badly.

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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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Yearning for the Golan Heights: Why Syria Wants It Back

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Julien Barnes-Dacey - Sep. 28 (News) - Syria's cooperation is crucial to the chief goal of President Obama's Middle East policy: Arab-Israeli peace. With ties to three Israeli enemies - Iran, and the militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas - Syria says it can moderate the threats against the Jewish state and thus pave the way for reciprocal Israeli concessions to the Palestinians and their Arab allies.

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G20 summit: three big agenda items for world leaders

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ron Scherer - Sep. 24 (News Report) - President Obama hosts his first summit of world leaders starting Thursday, a gathering of the G-20 nations that, for the most part, are just starting to recover from the worst economic cataclysm since the Great Depression. Now they must decide whether to keep interceding, by pouring more government money into their respective economies, or whether to back off that strategy.

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China gets serious about carbon emissions, global warming

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:39:34 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 23 - Globe and MailChina gets serious about carbon emissions, global warmingChristian Science MonitorAt UN, China's Hu Jintao commits to measurable limits on carbon emissions for the first time. Chinese environmental activists hail the shift toward low-carbon technology. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Beijing - The ...Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it allThe Associated PressChina's green policy lauded at UN climate summitXinhuaObama to address world at UNAFPWashington Post?-Bloomberg?-Telegraph.co.ukall 1,798 news articles??

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UN summit: Can Obama meet expectations on climate change?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter N. Spotts - Sep. 21 (News Report) - All eyes, and as important, all ears will be on President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday as heads of state from some 100 countries gather at the United Nations (UN) for a one-day summit on climate change.

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Standoff over Karzai win threatens Afghan power vacuum

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Sep. 17 (News Report) - A standoff between the two bodies charged with validating Afghanistan's troubled elections if further delaying an already urgent situation – and could result in a dangerous power vacuum if not resolved before winter. The votes are all

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Will Obama rue his trade tariff on China's tires?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 16 (Editorial) - In a break from recent presidents, Barack Obama has taken America down a new economic path by proposing a novel idea: The US can expand free trade by sometimes restricting it. In a way, he's saying that less trade in some instances might mean more trade. He laid out his reasoning after announcing last week that he placed a 35 percent tariff on imports of vehicle tires from China.

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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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Supreme Court: campaign finance overhaul in 'Hillary' case?

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Warren Richey - Sep. 09 (News Report) - The US Supreme Court this week takes up a potential crossroads case that could greatly expand the ability of corporations and labor unions to wield influence in federal elections. The high court on Wednesday is re-hearing a case it heard last spring

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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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