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November 19, 2010

Argentinian Politician Slaps Colleague (Video)

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It's good to keep an eye on world politics… if only so you can have a laugh when otherwise calm politicians resort to fisticuffs, just like this MP in [...]

August 12, 2010

WWE's McMahon Wins CT-SEN Primary

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Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda E. McMahon, an extraordinarily wealthy political rookie who just one year ago was largely unknown outside of her industry, has emerged as the victor in Tuesday's three-way Republican primary. [...]

August 12, 2010

"On Nature And Language? Speaks Of Chomsky?s New Views

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"On Nature and Language? is the name of a recent book of Noam Chomsky including three lectures on linguistics and also his political ideas on contemporary world events like dangers of democracy, secularism and western media. [...]

August 12, 2010

Ehud Barak Makes The Case Against Zionism?

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The former prime minister argues "Jews know that they can land on their feet in any corner of the world" in Jeffrey Goldberg's monster piece that, together with the Atlantic's cover art, will do a fair amount of legwork in mainstreaming the idea that bombing Iran is a good and justifiable idea. [...]

August 12, 2010

The Political Podcast Episode 224 August 9th 2010

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This is The Political Podcast Episode 224 produced on August 9th 2010. The war on drugs and discussions about Americans views on the rest of the world. Episode [...]

August 13, 2010

Make Health Care, Not Birth Control, The Priority

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Claiming that our inbred propensity to war can be prevented by aggressively reducing the birth rate is a de facto declaration of war on the world's poor. [...]

August 13, 2010

GOPUSA Commentary Sherline: The Mosque At Ground Zero

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I am also not interested in being politically correct to the point that I am willing to tolerate the in-your-face construction of a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque at ground zero, within a stone's throw of the World Trade Center (WTC). [...]

August 12, 2010

2010 PGA Championship Preview

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The whole golf world is changing before our very eyes. While it may hurt for the short term I compare it to (not to get political) America?s dependance on oil. It might be time for the PGA Tour to ween itself off it?s Tiger dependancy. [...]

August 12, 2010

Linda McMahon Ready To Spend $50 Million To Win Senate Seat

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Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda E. McMahon, an extraordinarily wealthy political rookie who just one year ago was largely unknown outside of her industry, has emerged as the victor in Tuesday's three-way Republican primary. [...]

November 23, 2010

Global Insights: The NATO Summit's Unanswered Questions

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Richard Weitz is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a World Politics Review senior editor. His weekly WPR column, Global Insights, appears every [...]

August 12, 2010

Rep. Trent Franks And His Crazy, Obama Hate Filled World

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It?s a real crazy assortment of personalities dotting the Republican political landscape and it is not easy to say one is crazier than another, but Republican Representative Trent Franks(AZ-02), who once called Obama, ?an enemy of humanity,? stands above all others. [...]

August 12, 2010

All Hail Inexperience: Outsiders Win Primaries

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"The support of the voters of Connecticut isn't bestowed by the establishment or the pundits or the media. It isn't a birthright," former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon said after winning the GOP senatorial nomination in her first run for office on Tuesday. [...]

August 13, 2010

Alan Watt: The True History Of The World

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New World Order researcher, author, and radio talk show host Alan Watt. With historical documentation, he shows how cultures are created and altered by those in control, always to lead the people like sheep into the next pasture. Watt twas born in Scotland, where he watched the subtleties of politics and media as they guided the population of the [...]

August 13, 2010

Pop Music's Presidential Cabinet

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About a week ago, Wyclef Jean announced that he was running for the presidency of Haiti, despite having no previous experience in the world of politics. This got us at BeatCrave to thinking about how the presidential cabinet would look like if the whole country decided to say screw it and elect famous pop stars to political office. [...]

August 12, 2010

Analysis Looks At Effect Of Letting Tax Cuts Lapse For Rich

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The key is that extending the tax cuts for for the next 10 years would add about $3.8 trillion to a growing national debt that is already the largest since World War IISandor Lenner [...]

November 18, 2010

The Return Of Burma's Accidental Heroine

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Aung San Suu Kyi's decision to go back to Rangoon to nurse her mother in 1988 propelled her into world politics. Peter Popham recalls meeting her AP I [...]

August 12, 2010

Across Nation, Mosque Projects Meet Opposition, Ground Zero

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engages in lively uncensored news and debate on world politics, foreign policy, humor, contests, chat, and essays. You will find Americans, Europeans, and everybody else covering the latest news and breaking events. Over 50% of our members are French who value the this avenue for free speech which is not available in their home count [...]

August 13, 2010

Wartime Rape No More Inevitable,acceptable Than Mass Murder

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The United Nations is trying to put sexual violence on the international policy map, telling political and military leaders that wartime mass rape "is no more inevitable than, or acceptable than, mass murder." [...]

August 12, 2010

World Politics - 04 August 2010 - New Scientist


4 Aug 2010 Clive Hamilton's article on the debate over geoengineering highlights a regrettable tendency for discussion of climate change to be [...]

November 18, 2010

Cambridge Journals Online - World Politics


World Politics, founded in 1948, is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published in both print and online versions. [...]

November 22, 2010

Rachel Maddow Rejects Talk Of 2012 Senate Run


Imagine this scenario: Progressive favorite and Democratic candidate Rachel Maddow challenges the incumbent Scott Brown for the Massachusetts Senate seat in 2012. Many liberals in the Harvard University audience certainly got excited at such a prospect, peppering the MSNBC host with questions on run [...]

August 12, 2010

UK Politics

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UK tourism must focus on "heritage" instead of the Labour government's attempt to market the country as "Cool Britannia", David Cameron has said. Speaking in London's Hyde Park, the prime minister urged people to be more "proud" of the UK and its history. [...]

August 12, 2010

George Weah Gets Educated In Quest For Election

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George Weah was at one time the greatest soccer player in the world. Now he's planning a run at the presidency of his native Liberia for the second time. Weah was FIFA's Player of the Year in 1995, and went into politics in 2005. Although he beat 21 other candidates to win the vote in the first round, he lost to eventual president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the second round. [...]

November 22, 2010

Newsweek-Daily Beast And YourCommunity Paper-YourCommunity Website


In m y November 3, 2010 post I agreed with Larry Kramer, founder and former CEO of CBS Marketwatch.com, that a possible merger of Newsweek and The Daily Beast made sense. I disagreed with Mr Kramer's belief that print was a transitional product. Eight days later, Newsweek and The Daily Beast announc [...]

November 22, 2010

Haute 100 San Francisco Update: Paul & Nancy Pelosi


Our Haute 100 list details the accomplishments of the most influential people in each of our markets— Miami, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. These people continue to make moves, so rather than waiting for the next Haute 100 issue to come out, we thought we’d provide you with regular update [...]


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