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What can Game of Thrones tell us about our world's politics?
Foreign Policy
Groups like the Spanish Carlists, who rallied to their prince for what we would see as political reasons, are a rather late development, Sometimes, dynastic wars could rally support based on ethnic or us vs. them factors, such as the Hundred Years' War ...
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Foreign Policy
Latinos Prove to be Influential in US Politics
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
As the electoral base and the number of Latino political officials increase, they will hugely influence change. The US needs to understand this evolution and work toward creating a "Latino-friendly" environment, rather than the "anti-Latino" road we ...
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Al Gore's rallying call: 'Climate crisis is a struggle for the soul of America'
The Guardian (blog)
Gore argues that, through now unlimited and secret campaign finance, "Polluters and Idealogues" have captured US politics to the extent that reason and the common good can no longer win out in debates. He cites powerful examples: how, on the verge of ...
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Obama voter support from oil tap could be fleeting
Reuters
... chances," said Larry Sabato, political science professor at University of Virginia. He said Obama may have been seeking to catch a ride on a fall in US oil prices which had already dropped more than 15 percent from their peak at the start of May. ...
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Kerry praises Obama plan to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan
Washington Post
Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told CBS' "Early Show" on Thursday that the plan "will change the political calculation of everybody on the ground." Obama said Wednesday that 10000 US troops will come home from ...
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US Rep. Rich Nugent supports plan to bring troops home from Afghanistan
Tampabay.com
Asked for his opinion on the rate of withdrawal, though, Nugent said Thursday he can only trust that Obama used guidance from Petraeus, not political considerations, in making the decision and that the strategy won't come at the expense of progress ...
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Thailand's former PM under scrutiny in new leak of US cables
The Independent
"Thailand remains a democracy, but one in which the balance among the political and social forces is unhealthy," the then US ambassador Ralph "Skip" Boyce, says in a 2005 dispatch to Washington. The cables also suggest Mr Thaksin, who was elected in ...
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Pakistan constrains US retreat from a decade of blood
Sydney Morning Herald
No one wants to talk about that very much any more - the timelines are longer and the costs larger than the politics here [in America] will bear.'' David Sanger is chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times.
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Haiti's political disarray threatens rebuilding, congressman says
MiamiHerald.com
"I hope that the Haitian parliament understands that for us to move forward, we need not the politics of the past but the opportunity to move into the future," Menendez said, warning that bickering politicians don't "bode well for investment. ...
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Obama to Visit Iowa Next Week, Close on Bachmann's Heels
RealClearPolitics
On the following day, a quick two-hour drive down the road, Obama will be paying a visit to a Davenport Alcoa plant while defending his record and celebrating US manufacturing. Coincidence? In a political season in which the man who has the Oval Office ...
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Latinos Prove to be Influential in US Politics » Council on ...
Latinos Prove to be Influential in US Politics. June 23, 2011. June 23, 2011. Halfway through his third year in office, President Barack Obama has begun his re-election campaign. On June 14th, President Obama made a brief, ...
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We can hope Obama's right on U.S. pullout - - Politics
By ifennell
Obama said the U.S. and its allies had achieved enough in Afghanistan that 10000 troops would come home by the end of this year, to be followed by up to 23000 by the end of next summer. Those are the numbers which the president promised ...
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Obama's Afghanistan Drawdown Decision Driven by Political Pressure ...
By John Barry
The speech shows the president is feeling the political pressure of Americans' hostility to the conflict—enough to signal the U.S. is preparing to pull out. That will cause other players like Pakistan and Hamid Karzai to make ...


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