americanprogress.org - 11/17/2008
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Rebuild the Auto Industry, Preserve Jobs, and Break our Dependence on Oil Sustained high gas prices and a broken system of health care finance are hurting U.S. automakers badly. Today the industry faces profit losses in the billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of jobs are at ...
opiniojuris.org - 11/17/2008
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opiniojuris.org —
Somali pirates strike again, this time hijacking a
Saudi-owned tanker off the coast of Kenya . The...
running stand off with the hijacked ship carrying arms and a Ukrainian crew continues; Russia announces that it repelled an attack on a different ...
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Here There Bee (More) Pirates … and Might the ...
newamerica.net - 11/19/2008
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newamerica.net —
Introduction The U.S. health care system is in
crisis. Health care costs too much; we often get...
too little in exchange for our health care dollar; and tens of millions of Americans are uninsured. Our economy loses hundreds of billions of dollars ...
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The Cost of Doing Nothing
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Much has been said about the impact of
the credit crisis on U.S. auto makers, and whether...
or not the government should assist the industry during this extraordinary financial turmoil. In these discussions, many critics simply ignore the substantial ...
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Why GM Deserves Support
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Zapping the Volt
Firedoglake —
... the "Healthcare For Hybrids" act, whereby the government would assume Big 3 legacy costs if the auto industry would use the savings to invest in fuel efficient vehicles. It was a forward-looking piece of legislation that holds out a lot of hope that Obama understands the problems of American auto manufacturers and is willing to address them in innovative ways. ...
Today in The Nation: Detroit Shock Doctrine
The Nation: Top Stories —
... the "Healthcare For Hybrids" act, whereby the government would assume Big 3 legacy costs if the auto industry would use the savings to invest in fuel efficient vehicles. It was a forward-looking piece of legislation that holds out a lot of hope that Obama understands the problems of American auto manufacturers and is willing to address them in innovative ways. Let's hope there's enough pressure brought to bear today on Mitch McConnell, Kit Bond and other Republicans whose states would be hard hit by a Big 3 bankruptcy to keep them functional until Obama takes office and ...
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redstate.com 11/21/2008 — A Big 3 Bailout Could Kill Thousands of Export Jobs
If nothing else, the Great Depression proved very instructive.
Plenty of commentators and analysts learned one of its important
lessons: protectionist policies are only likely to deepen ...
DHL Closing US Service Centers, Cutting 9,500 Jobs
huffingtonpost.com 11/10/2008 — ATLANTA — In a move that could greatly scale back a possible venture between UPS and Deutsche Post's DHL, the German company said Monday it will significantly reduce its air and ground operations in the U.S. and cut 9,500 jobs within the country.
The DHL-UPS deal was expected to last ...
US military defines Mahdi Army as "militia insurgency group"
longwarjournal.org 11/30/2008 —
Muqtada al Sadr.
The US military has begun to directly identify the Iranian-backed "Special Groups" Shia terror groups with Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army in press information issued in Baghdad.
The direct association between the ...
Board of Directors
iri.org 10/29/2008 — U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services Peter T. Madigan, Vice Chairman Principal, Johnson, Madigan and Peck Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of ...
Iraqi Field Artillery: The missing link
longwarjournal.org 1/21/2009 —
New Iraqi Howitzer.
The most significant deficiency of the Iraqi Security Forces is its missing artillery. Artillery is called the "King of the Battlefield" because it is the single largest casualty maker in conventional war. ...
Obamanomics
firedoglake.com 10/15/2008 —
Is Obama the New FDR?
At this point it's clear that, barring some sort of catastrophic revelation, Obama is going to win the election. The most important task facing him will be fixing the economy. Given his economic proposals to date, what ...
US hits Taliban safe house In North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 11/21/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
US strikes kills al Qaeda operatives in North & South Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 10/31/2008 — The US has struck again inside Pakistan's lawless tribal areas. The latest airstrike targeted a key al Qaeda facilitator who served as a bridge between the Taliban and al Qaeda. The US is also stating that al Qaeda operative Khalid Habib was killed ...
Iraqi Army Movements In Kirkuk and Salahadin
longwarjournal.org 1/24/2009 —
Iraqi Army Movements in Kirkuk, Salahadin and Sulaymaniyah.
On January 23, 2009, the Kurdish Globe published an article titled "Iraqi army moves closer to Kurdistan" . The very first hand-wringing statement was: "Kurds ...
The Fourth Amendment Abroad:
volokh.com 11/25/2008 — The Second Circuit has just handed down a very important new Fourth Amendment case on how the Fourth Amendment applies overseas: In re Terrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies (Fourth Amendment...
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