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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:46:07 +0000: Upping the Ante - By Julia Ioffe With 100,000 protesters -- young, old, and everything in between -- out in the freezing streets of Moscow, the heat is being turned up on Vladimir Putin's drive for the presidency. |
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:20:51 +0000: Cold Snap - An FP Slide Show Images of Europe in the full force of a deep freeze. |
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:14:17 +0000: Free Radical - By Aaron Y. Zelin Bashar al-Assad appears to have let one of the world's most prominent jihadist ideologues out of jail. He's playing with fire. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:35:53 +0000: Keystone Kops - By Amy Myers Jaffe Environmentalists picked the wrong battle in opposing the Keystone XL project. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:07 +0000: The Coming Civil War in Afghanistan - By Arif Rafiq It's not inevitable, but it's more likely than ever before. Here's how to avoid the worst. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:53:20 +0000: The World in Photos This Week - An FP Slide Show Soccer riots in Egypt, Merkel heads to China, and an anniversary in Tehran. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:50:36 +0000: Cairo's Undercover Strongman - By Magdy Samaan Meet Murad Muwafi, the most important man in Egypt you?ve never heard of. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000: The Cynics at the Gates - By James Traub The world is more prepared to stop atrocities than ever before, but it is still unwilling -- or unable -- to actually bring those atrocities to an end. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:12:14 +0000: Is Putin's Fake Rival the Real Deal? - By Simon Shuster Everyone thought billionaire playboy Mikhail Prokhorov was just a patsy for Vladimir Putin to run against and crush. But what if he wins? |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:31 +0000: Dissidents to Watch in 2012 - By Isaac Stone Fish Five notable Chinese activists who are pushing the boundaries of dissent ... and on whom China is pushing back. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:26:24 +0000: The LWOT: Four plead guilty to London Stock Exchange plot Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation bring you a twice weekly brief on the legal war on terror. You can read it on foreignpolicy.com or get it delivered directly to your inbox -- just sign up here. |
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:12:40 +0000: This Week at War: What Is NATO Good For? - By Robert Haddick The U.S. pivot to Asia could give the military alliance a chance to find a new identity. |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:15:35 +0000: Premature Evacuation? - By Michael A. Cohen Why cutting and running in Afghanistan is good politics for Obama. |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:47:02 +0000: The Revenge of Montozy - By Aaron Wiener Is Italy's "Super Mario" prime minister poisoning the love affair between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy? |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000: Brothers in Arms - By Michael Weiss and Julia Pettengill Vladimir Putin's stubborn support for the Syrian regime is intended to shore up his faltering support within Russia. |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:17:58 +0000: The Forbidden Citizen - By Sophie Richardson Why 2012 will be a very bad year to be a Chinese dissident -- and what America can do about it. |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:20:22 +0000: The Little Economy That Could - By Jeffrey Frankel If you're looking for an unlikely economic success story, you can hardly do better than Mauritius. |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:52:58 +0000: Finish Him - By Daniel Byman Without international intervention, there's a good chance that Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, could still rule for years. |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:17:16 +0000: Ultra Violence - By James M. Dorsey How Egypt?s soccer mobs are threatening the revolution. |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:50:34 +0000: The Bin Laden Bounce - By Scott Clement Does killing bad guys really help at the ballot box? |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:46:58 +0000: Social Networks in Exile - By Joshua E. Keating The $100 billion Facebook juggernaut is going public. But remember Friendster and LiveJournal? They never died. They just fled overseas. |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:45:00 +0000: Canceling the Mullahs' Credit Card - By Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer How to sever Iran's financial lifeline. |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:57:00 +0000: The Diaspora's Conscience - By Peter Kohanloo and Sohrab Ahmari Does the National Iranian American Council have a moral obligation to speak out against the ayatollahs? |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:47:21 +0000: Harbin Ice Festival: Winter's Palace - By Jonathan Browning Photos of China's technicolor frozen wonderland. |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:18:10 +0000: Think Again: Microfinance - By David Roodman Small loans probably won't lift people out of poverty or empower women. But that doesn't mean they're useless. |