December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 17, 2011
If you were asked to describe, in 10 words or less, the single issue driving the two major political parties in the US today, I imagine you’d say something like this: Republicans never met a tax cut they didn’t like; Democrats won’t touch entitlement programs, even to make them solvent. Consider, then, the counterintuitive [...]
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December 15, 2011
US military personnel in Baghdad lower the US Forces-Iraq colours before they are encased, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on December 15 nearly nine years after the controversial invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a [...]
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November 24, 2011
The supercommittee's failure will trigger automatic cuts in the defence budget and domestic spending. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP It took a fictional jury of “12 Angry Men” 96 minutes to agree on a verdict of not guilty. It took “12 good people,” as supercommittee co-chairman Jeb Hensarling referred to them, three months and countless hours [...]
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November 24, 2011
A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting an almost unwinnable battle against the ghost of Steve Jobs. America’s love affair with entrepreneurship complicates any attempt to mount an effective European-style war of have-nots against haves. To be successful, the new [...]
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November 19, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. US President Barack Obama held previously unannounced talks with China’s Premier Wen Jiabao [...]
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November 19, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. Of all the people Barack Obama thought he would be running against next [...]
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November 14, 2011
Front row (L-R), Australian Prime Minister Julie Gillard, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda; second row from left Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak, Mexican Trade Minister Bruno Ferrari and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on November 13, 2011 [...]
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November 14, 2011
President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where our interests lay [...]
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