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Anonymous's blog There has been a lot of hopeful talk about Africa in the past year. For instance, the World Bank has noted that several African countries, including Ethiopia, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone and Rwanda are among the fastest growing c ...


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Anonymous's blog Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with President Obama today in Washington, reportedly to request assistance in the form of advanced military aircraft  to counter the reactivated insurgency in Iraq.  Maliki also took this requ ...


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Anonymous's blog The following post was originally published on Duck of Minerva, and is cross-posted from Martin Edwards, professor at Seton Hall’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Martin’s website is  here. How do Americans think abo ...


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Anonymous's blog This morning, President Obama delivered a speech to the nation encouraging Congress to pass immigration reform before the end of the year. After quoting economic statistics to describe the positive impact reform will have on the nati ...


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Anonymous's blog Germans will vote on Sunday for composition of the 18th session of the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament.   The center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), the party of German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, has a com ...


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Anonymous's blog As the debate over taking action in Syria continues, I wanted to share  a few interesting pieces on Syria and public opinion in advance of President Obama's address to the nation tomorrow night. CNN's Global Public Square b ...


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Anonymous's blog By Dina Smeltz, Craig Kafura and Nabeel Khoury In the wake of the chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus, the drumbeat is increasing for western military intervention in Syria. Surveys conducted since the Syrian conflict began i ...


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Anonymous's blog Mexican President Peña Nieto recently proposed changes to the country’s constitution to allow private investment in Mexico’s oil industry.  This is a maverick move in a country whose “ national DNA has been programmed to see energy a ...


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Anonymous's blog Over the first few days of August, I participated in a training session along with over a thousand climate leader candidates for the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, a grassroots network of climate leaders trained by Al Gore and oth ...