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Climate Change Equals Stronger Rains
Scientific American - By David Biello - Aug. 8 (News Report)
As the globe continues to warm, the rainiest parts of the world are very likely to get wetter, according to a new study in Science. Desert dwellers, however, are likely to see... More »

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Russian tanks 'rolling into Georgian breakaway'
CNN - By Elene Gotsadze - Aug. 8 (News Report)
Russian television Friday showed a convoy of Russian tanks and said they were heading into the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia as escalating tensions over the region... More »

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Gates Pushing Plan to Double Afghan Army
New York Times - By Thom Shanker - Aug. 8 (News Report)
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will endorse a $20 billion plan to substantially increase the size of Afghanistan's army and will also restructure the military command of... More »

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Beijing doesn't love mask?
Global Voices - By Bob Chen - Aug. 8 (News Analysis)
On Tuesday, four Olympics athletes from United States showed up at Beijing airport with masks over their mouths and noses. Though they thought it was just a simple... More »

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How Would McCain Mediate A Russia-Georgia Conflict?
Think Progress - Aug. 8 (News Analysis)
Russia's invasion of Georgia today raises some questions about how a McCain administration might deal with a crisis like this. More »

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China's Olympic dazzle has its dark side
Daily Telegraph - By Shao Jiang - Aug. 8 (Opinion)
When China was bidding for the Games, there was rightful concern about the country's human rights record and the Chinese government went out of its way to allay these fears... More »

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Olympics or not, China loses if the US is off its game
The Age - By David Hirst - Aug. 8 (Opinion)
The problem, however, is not China but the US. China's finance of the American orgy of consumption may be coming to an end. The drop in the value of the US dollar has long worried... More »

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Toward A New Paradigm For The Post-Soviet Petrostates
Radio Free Europe - By Daniel Kimmage - Aug. 7 (Opinion)
The transition from communism is over and it has come to rest on authoritarianism. A rapacious elite sits athwart the flow of petrodollars, controls the political arena, and... More »

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Recalling the GOP Convention's Festival of Falling Stars
Congressional Quarterly - By Bob Benenson - Aug. 8 (Opinion)
as we prepare to head out in a couple of weeks for the back-to-back Democratic convention in Denver and Republican convention in St. Paul, another way of illustrating the GOP's... More »

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Don't Mourn the Collapse of WTO Talks
AlterNet - Aug. 8 (Opinion)
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In military housing disaster, a whistle-blower awaits vindication
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Eric Nalder - Aug. 7 (Special Report)
The company in charge, American Eagle, was a newly formed consortium of the Shaw Group, a government contracting giant, and Carabetta Enterprises Inc... More »

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Organic Farming Takes Root In China
Fresh Air - By Melissa Block - Aug. 6 (Special Report)
In recent years, Americans have been concerned about what's in Chinese products, including the food we eat and the toys we buy. In China, a small but growing number of people are... More »

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Games spur little progress on human rights
Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Ford - Aug. 6 (News Report)
Beijing marks the first time that IOC officials have explicitly linked the Olympics to political reform.But never before had the IOC - often in the face of criticism -... More »

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Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
TruthDig - By Col. Ann Wright - Aug. 3 (News Report)
The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on sexual... More »

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Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation
Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 3 (News Analysis)
The death of government scientist Bruce Ivins has generated far more questions about the anthrax attacks than it has answered. I want to return to the role the establishment media... More »

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Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice
The Guardian - By Pankaj Mishra - Aug. 7 (Opinion)
Apparently, no inconvenient truths are allowed to mar what Foreign Affairs, the foreign policy journal of America's elite, has declared a "roaring capitalist success... More »

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Berlin to Beijing
New Yorker - By George Packer - Aug. 2 (Blog Post)
It's becoming clear that the I.O.C.'s decision to give the 2008 Olympics to Beijing is its worst call since 1936. Now that it's too late to turn around, China is busy breaking all... More »

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The Democrats and National Security
The New York Review of Books - By Samantha Powers - Aug. 4 (Review)
Since the Vietnam War the Republican Party has developed a reputation for having a superior approach to national security. Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on... More »

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Grant Cardone: Survive Recession
Huffington Post - By Grant Cardone - Aug. 6 (Blog Post)
Take any failure you have had in your lifetime or in business and you will see the individual or company was unable to sell its products in quantities great enough, fast enough... More »

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Running While Black
TruthOut - By Bob Herbert - Aug. 2 (Opinion)
Bob Herbert, writing for The New York Times, says: "Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his... More »

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China Rebuffs Criticisms As Bush Arrives in Beijing
Washington Post - By Michael Abramowitz - Aug. 8 (News Report)
The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted sharply to Bush's broad critique this week of China's imprisonment of dissidents, suppression of religious liberty and curtailment of free... More »

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DHL deal gone sour haunts McCain in Ohio
Los Angeles Times - By Bob Drogin - Aug. 8 (News Report)
Now, its business in a tailspin, DHL wants to combine operations with rival United Parcel Service and close its huge hub here. If the merger goes through, community officials and... More »

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China's Olympic dreams
Foreign Policy - Aug. 8 (Interview)
All Olympic Games in the past have had problems of one kind or another. So for us, we are quite prepared to deal with all kinds of problems... More »

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Pakistan's Musharraf faces impeachment
Talking Points Memo - By Munir Ahmad - Aug. 7 (News Report)
Despite his unpopularity in Pakistan, Musharraf has so far resisted calls to step down and insisted he will serve out his current five year term after he was elected in a... More »

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Don't Tase Me, GOP
In These Times - By Jacob Wheeler - Aug. 5 (News Report)
The St. Paul Police Department is arming itself with Tasers. Local activists and media say that the department ordered 230 stun guns in late February -- adding to the 140 already... More »

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Stung By FISA, Group to Drop Money Bomb
New York Times - Aug. 7 (Blog Post)
Stung by the recent passage of legislation to expand government surveillance powers, two prominent liberal bloggers are teaming up with right-leaning libertarians on a new... More »

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Don't let the Games blind us to the plight of China's workers
The Independent - By Johann Hari - Aug. 7 (Opinion)
many of us want to believe we are being tolerant - and even anti-racist - by sticking our fingers in our ears when it comes to the conflict within China... More »

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How the sausage gets made
Reuters - By David Schlesinger - Aug. 7 (Blog Post)
Situated in the main press centre in the Olympic Village, the centre is home to the more than 30,000 journalists and support staff from the world's media who gather to cover the... More »

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The One Country Where Torture is So Likely That Even the United States Will Not Transfer a Detainee There
Balkinization - By Marty Lederman - Aug. 7 (Blog Post)
s recent experience has shown, it takes a great deal of evidence to convince the United States that someone is likely to be tortured by a repressive regime. Finally, the U.S... More »

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McCain's "The One" Attack Video: Does it Have a Deeper Message?
TechPresident - By Micah Sifry - Aug. 7 (Blog Post)
The Matthew 25 movement--a group of progressive evangelicals that runs a PAC and has endorsed Obama--is charging that the ad is actually full of coded messages meant to convince... More »

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Recalling the GOP Convention's Festival of Falling Stars
Congressional Quarterly - Aug. 8
as we prepare to head out in a couple of weeks for the back-to-back Democratic convention in Denver and Republican convention in St. Paul, another way of illustrating the GOP's... More »

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Grant Cardone: Survive Recession
Huffington Post - Aug. 6
Take any failure you have had in your lifetime or in business and you will see the individual or company was unable to sell its products in quantities great enough, fast enough... More »

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Twitter Idiots on the Right
Open Left - Aug. 8
Aside from the idiocy of Odom and the various GOP consultants and think tank fellows twittering all day, Odom is so stupid he doesn't understand that he works for a conservative... More »

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Don't Mourn the Collapse of WTO Talks
AlterNet - Aug. 8
Don't mourn th ecollapse of the WTO talks More »

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Olympics or not, China loses if the US is off its game
The Age - Aug. 8
The problem, however, is not China but the US. China's finance of the American orgy of consumption may be coming to an end. The drop in the value of the US dollar has long worried... More »

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China's Olympic dazzle has its dark side
Daily Telegraph - Aug. 8
When China was bidding for the Games, there was rightful concern about the country's human rights record and the Chinese government went out of its way to allay these fears... More »

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Current Events in Books: Tough Economic Times Calls For Strong Leadership
Current Events in Books Blog - Aug. 8
Daily we hear about more businesses that are closing branches, downsizing or closing for good. In tough financial times, businesses need strong leaders... More »

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Toward A New Paradigm For The Post-Soviet Petrostates
Radio Free Europe - Aug. 7
The transition from communism is over and it has come to rest on authoritarianism. A rapacious elite sits athwart the flow of petrodollars, controls the political arena, and... More »

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Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice
The Guardian - Aug. 7
Apparently, no inconvenient truths are allowed to mar what Foreign Affairs, the foreign policy journal of America's elite, has declared a "roaring capitalist success... More »

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The Democrats and National Security
The New York Review of Books - Aug. 4
Since the Vietnam War the Republican Party has developed a reputation for having a superior approach to national security. Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on... More »

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