THE NEXT DECADE by George Friedman Published: January 2011 Synopsis The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing
ASIA NEWS JANUARY 10, 2011 By ZAHID HUSSAIN Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesFazalur Rehman, leader of radical group Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam, addresses a rally in favor of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in Karachi on Sunday. ISLAMABAD—Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Sunday in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi in support of the nation’s controversial blasphemy laws, and clerics threatened
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JANUARY 6, 2011 In an interview last month, the late Salman Taseer expressed concern about the radicalization of his country. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told me not to worry. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Lahore, Pakistan On central Mall road, Governor’s House sits back across a wide lawn. The white, colonnaded mansion, built for British rulers
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U.S.: Little to show in 8 years By Rowan Scarborough– The Washington Times December 5, 2010 The State Department has stated in a cable from Peshawar, Pakistan, that it is skeptical about eventually winning the military struggle in Pakistan‘s badlands, saying peace talks go nowhere and murderous militants control key towns. A long cable from
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NEWS & OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N.C. CIA recalls exposed spy ISLAMABAD The CIA yanked its top spy out of Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened, and 54 suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone missile attack Friday in stark new signs of the troubled relationship between mistrustful allies locked in a
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November 11, 2010 By ROGER COHEN LONDON — A world without nuclear weapons sounds nice, but of course that was the world that brought us World War I and World War II. If you like the sound of that, the touchy-feely “Global Zero” bandwagon is probably for you. I’m an optimist in general but a
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida November 5, 2010 by Paisley Dodds LONDON Months after he was released from Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahman was back in the company of terrorist leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But he was a double agent, providing Taliban and al-Qaida secrets to Pakistani intelligence, which then shared the tips
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In Enemy Hands One man lives to tell a tale of the Taliban. Rosanne Klass October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Captive My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban by Jere Van Dyk Times Books, 288 pp., $25 In January 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street
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OCTOBER 26, 2010 The Pakistan Paradox Unless we’re prepared to deal with it as an enemy, we must make do with it as a friend. By BRET STEPHENS Any serious observer of the war in Afghanistan will tell you that we can’t win without striking hard at the safe havens the Taliban and its allies
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