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This Weekend's News: Much About H20
When water is mentioned in several articles throughout the week, it is noticeable. It played major and minor roles in two different New York Times pieces yesterday, with a Bos...
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Two Quick Thoughts on Unrelated Topics
1. A CNN editor trying to express her admiration for Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah on Twitter is just silly. (The name and title alone are 42 characters!) One sho...
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Cancun Week: BASIC Meetings
The Copenhagen Conference, which took place last December, was billed as the conference where participant countries would nail down a legally binding agreement to succeed the ...
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The Real Afghanistan Debate
Having just finished a fantastic lunch of fried chicken and sweet tea at Champy's, I am now preparing to leave Chattanooga for Washington. Before I leave, though, I want to hi...
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Cancun Week: Can Congress Pass Climate Change Legislation?
Last week, President Obama met with a bi-partisan group of Senators about new legislation to address climate change and create a new energy policy for the United States, a mee...
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L'Affair Rolling Stan: The View from Beirut
Issandr sent me this picture, taken with his camera phone, from Librairie Antoine on Hamra Street in Beirut, figuring it would crack me up. It did. ...
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Cancun Week: UN Politics
Welcome to Cancun week! My next three posts will cover climate change-related current events, covering some of the most important themes of the Copenhagen Conference and specu...
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This Weekend’s News: Investing in Iraq and Afghanistan
There have been a lot of developments around reconstruction and foreign investments in Afghanistan and Iraq recently, including several reports from The Washington Post and Th...
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Data Durbar - The target-in-waiting gets hit
The BBC is reporting 42 people died at the attack on Data Durbar shrine in Lahore last night. During the last few months, everyone in Lahore would tell you it's just a matter ...
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Events from Around Town: Ending the Conflict Minerals Trade
Human rights organizations and security wonks don’t often share similar stakes or interests-at least not explicitly. But as one of those who identifies with both groups, I th...
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My Thoughts on U.S. Policy in the Middle East
From Tablet Magazine, where Lee Smith asked me to grade the Obama Administration's efforts in the Middle East: I tend to believe the actions of local actors are more significa...
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Reader Comment of the Day
This is from "Cicero" in the comments section of the below post The problem with COIN is not that it can be done better or worse. Of course their are methods and strategies th...
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For Scientists, Understanding What’s at Stake
This Sunday, The Washington Post’s outlook section featured a piece near and dear to my heart. Writing for the Post, Chris Mooney, the author of a paper on the relationship be...
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Another Good Event that We Left Off the List
We missed this in today's blog post, but I recommend it for all you minerals nerds out there."Ending the Conflict Minerals Trade" at CAP, June 29, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:30pm. Spea...
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Counterinsurgency Under the Microscope
I am about to board a plane this afternoon that will take me to East Tennessee and a week or so spent with friends and family. I’ll be visiting friends in Memphis and Nashvill...
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This Weekend’s News: Has the Ocean Lost its Way?
Beyond the coverage and commentary on General McCrystal’s dismissal, this weekend’s news had a heavy focus on the ocean’s seafood stocks. Yep, that’s right. Both the Times and...
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Beers on the Table: Journalists and the Public Figures They Cover (Updated)
Now that Gen. McChrystal is gone and consensus has formed that Preisdent Obama was well within his rights to have fired him, it's worth going back and looking anew at the Roll...
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Gary Faulkner, Bin Laden Hunter
Well. This is simply awesome. Many thanks to the crew at CNAS for posting this while I was in Denver....
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McChrystal as Cantona
I challenged the folks who follow my Twitter feed to come up with a proper sports analogy for Stan McChrystal. We were trying to think of a brilliant athlete who had a meltdow...
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McChrystal Out, Petraeus In
I arrived in Vail, Colorado this afternoon to digest the news from Washington -- which I did during a trail run up Riva Ridge, getting in touch with my 10th Mountain Division ...