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America Needs an Internet Agenda
Google's announcement that it has stopped censoring results from its Chinese search engine has captured global attention, but developments on the Internet freedom front are co...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Most Depressing Statistic of the Week
Most everyone agrees the Presidential Management Fellowship is one of the federal government's best programs, as it allows smart young Americans fresh out of graduate school a...
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A Mess Indeed: Security in the Middle East
I had lunch with Amos Harel of Ha'aretz a few months ago in Tel Aviv, and he floated the idea of starting a blog on security issues in the Middle East that would reach a large...
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(EXTRA) Spotlight on the Hill: Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century Industry
Yesterday, I caught a webcast of the House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight hearing over Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century I...
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JOE 2008 vs. JOE 2010: Climate Change
The 2010 Joint Operating Environment (JOE; PDF), recently released by Joint Forces Command, offers a slightly more robust assessment on the implications of climate change for ...
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This Weekend’s News: Iran, Energy and Us
Big, big natural security news from The New York Times this weekend. You know how we’ve been sanctioning Iran and discouraging U.S. investment in its energy sector? Well – pre...
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Book Review: Global Warring
In a post-Snowpocalyptic world, climate change scientists have found themselves defending their work against climate change skeptics who are using the historic winter weather ...
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The Weekend News: Chu Tour 2010
Last week, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu undertook what I would characterize as an energy diplomacy tour of the Middle East, spending the first two days of his four ...
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Read This Now: Niger: The Coup and Uranium
Last week Stratfor issued a cool piece, “Niger: The Coup and Uranium.” This is straight up natural security reading for you, dear readers. You can get the full article in exch...
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This Weekend's News: Big Natural Security Elections – Ukraine Thinks Gas while Venezuela Explores Geoengineering
The biggest natural security news through the long D.C. snowpocalypse weekend involved coverage of two energy-important elections, one now held and the other to come later thi...
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This Weekend’s News: Energy Efficiency
We often hear the argument that energy and climate policy should focus on efficiency in the near term, leaving switching to more sustainable energy sources to the future. Yest...
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Read This Now: "A Post-Copenhagen Pathway" by CSIS’s Sarah Ladislaw
CSIS Senior Fellow and energy über-analyst Sarah Ladislaw released a short policy paper last week, “A Post-Copenhagen Pathway.” (Our colleague Dan covered CSIS’s related even...
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The Most Important Thing You'll Read on Afghanistan This Month
This summer, as Gen. McChrystal took command in Afghanistan, it became clear to both him and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Mike Flynn, that the way we gather and process i...
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This Weekend’s News: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
This long holiday weekend, the plethora of commentary on the state of the economy at the beginning of 2010, dissections of the past and projections for the future all indirect...
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This Weekend's News: A Winter Wonderland...and Copenhagen
The big story for many of us this weekend was, of course, the monster blizzard that slammed the East Coast on Friday night, continuing through Sunday, stranding thousands duri...
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Reading Old Magazines: Potential Impact of Climate Change on World Food Supply
Several years ago I was coaching a high school debate team in Boston and my students were asked to debate increasing alternative energy incentives in the United States. As one...
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Hizballah's Tired, Derivative New Manifesto
This weekend, I went to the local coffeeshop to read two documents which I had previously skimmed but to which I wanted to devote more attention and felt deserved a closer rea...
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Events from Around Town: A Double Feature
Michael McCarthy reports from the New America Foundation event on Minding the Gap: Where Will President Obama's Energy and Climate Policies Take Us in Four to Eight Years? Yes...
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Bucking Conventional Wisdom: The Top Five Energy-Poor Middle Eastern Countries
The Middle East is rightly seen as a center of global energy supplies and production, hosting several of the world’s top petroleum and natural gas giants. But, as it turns out...
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This Weekend’s News: India, beyond the Party Crashers
This Thanksgiving weekend, with newspapers light on news and heavy on ads, the biggest story was clearly the crashing of the White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister...