RSS- Barbara Ann on The Great Taking
- William Eaton and The Battle of Derna
- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
Monthly Archives: October 2008
“Tribal engagement in Afghanistan”
"…facet of the Iraq strategy that McKiernan doubts can be duplicated in Afghanistan is the US military’s programs to recruit tribes to oppose insurgents. That effort, begun in 2006 in Iraq’s Anbar province, led a loose coalition of tribes to … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan
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The “Deal” is not good enough yet…
Stripped of the "Bells and Whistles," the "Christmas Tree Ornaments," and other distractors, the basic bailout remains an arrangement in which the government of the US would: – Buy bundles of securitized mortgage paper of various kinds from those willing … Continue reading
Posted in The economy
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