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TIME 100 Political Guide
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The Myth of Precision Guided Coercion
Note: this is cross posted from an essay in Counterpunch that can be found here ... CS June 22, 2011 From Serbia to Libya The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion...

Playing Ball With North Korea
U.S. policy toward North Korea has now officially flip-flopped: A little over five years ago, President Bush declared an end to the Clinton-era policy of...
What North Korea Wants
Figuring out the thinking of the regime in Pyongyang is a full-time occupation for a small army of intelligence analysts and diplomats around the world. And...

A Gershwin Offensive in North Korea
On a frigid Monday afternoon, under a fading sun and a beaming visage of Kim Il Sung, the late "Great Leader" of North Korea, the music director of the New York...
Signs Of The Times
In the land of the blind, the old saying has it, the one-eyed man is king. In a country intimidated into silence, a signer for the deaf was among the first to...

Person of the Week
Person of the Week I'M BACK The Chinese government once said he was a "whore" and a "sinner for a thousand generations." But when former Hong Kong Guv and...

Milsoevic on Trial: Day 3
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2002 Slobodan Milosevic walked into court confident and prepared. He carried a briefcase full of evidence that he began presenting — not...
Galley Girl: The Ann Coulter Edition
RIGHT-WING WHIRLWIND: Don't seat Ann Coulter and Katie Couric at the same table at your next dinner party. Coulter hammers Couric in her new book "Slander:...
Endangered Earth Update Is the Planet on the Back Burner?
This could be the winter of discontent for environmentalists. As the threat of war rumbles in the Middle East and the U.S. economy tumbles into recession,...


