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Morning Coffee - 6 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: General Motors,  Roberto Micheletti,  Angela Merkel,  Mohamed ElBaradei,  International Atomic Energy Agency

Morning Coffee - 4 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Abdullah Abdullah,  Taliban,  CBC,  Simon Mann,  Steve Coll

Arrest yourself and your brother, stat

Obama warns newly "reelected" Afghan president Hamid Karzai to crack down on corruption. Karzai swears he won't rest until the real criminals are behind bars, signs a lucrative book contract for his memoir "Who Cares if I Did It?" Karzai was declared ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hamid Karzai,  New York Times Company,  Central Intelligence Agency

Morning Coffee - 3 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Central Intelligence Agency,  Maher Arar,  Supreme Court of the United States

Morning Coffee - 2 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Abdullah Abdullah,  Barack Obama,  Hamid Karzai,  Ban Ki-moon

My favorite costume: Motorized fortune-telling machine

MANHATTAN--My favorite costume in the parade was the guy who went as a motorized coin-operated fortune telling machine, like the Zoltar Speaks machine in the 1988 move Big. The booth is mounted on wheels and rolling along in the parade. A one-man float. ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  1 Nov 2009

Micheletti adviser says Zelaya's not coming back

Yesterday, I expressed skepticism that the so-called breakthrough agreement to end coup-induced constitutional crisis in Honduras would actually bring deposed President Mel Zelaya back to power.  An adviser to the leader of the coup regime basically ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya,  Roberto Micheletti

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

WASHINGTON--Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) speaking at the Made In America: Building the New Economy. Brown said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to include a public option in the health care bill because of what he called the inside/outside ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sherrod Brown,  Harry Reid,  U.S. Senate

Honduras deal: Breakthrough or fig leaf?

The media are jubilant because the State Department has finally brokered a deal to "resolve" the standoff in Honduras between the ruling junta and ousted President Mel Zelaya. The accord between Zelaya and self-proclaimed president Roberto Micheletti ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: US State Department,  United Nations,  Roberto Micheletti,  Barack Obama,  Wall Street Journal

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard

WASHINGTON (New Economy Conf)--United Steelworkers Pres Leo Gerard: "We're not against trade and we're not luddites, but we really are tired of getting screwed." WASHINGTON (New Economy Conf)--United Steelworkers Pres Leo Gerard: "We're not against ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Steelworkers,  Leo Gerard

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