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…If you believe that maintaining power and control and absolute freedom of movement and sovereignty is important to your country’s future, there’s nothing inconsistent in that [the US continuing to behaving unilaterally ]. [The US is] the biggest, most powerful country in the worl...

…grow as a society m degrees. Then there are times when we take great leaps for- ward. If you examine the history of our country back to the days of the first Spanish, English and French immigrants, you will see certain moments when our national dynamic shifted. This week, we saw...

… and methods. Snowden exposed this vulnerability when he walked away with, among other documents, the 32,000 page-long country by country descriptions of the gaps in America’s coverage of the communications of its adversaries. Even though the Cold War had been declared over afte...

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…Strong, 68. Former CEO of Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s biggest airline, and former chairman of Woolworths Ltd., the country’s largest retailer. Died March 3 in Sydney of complications from surgery. Hugo Chavez, 58. President of Venezuela since 1998, who used the country’s o...

…shed to highlight proved an effective strategy of calming tensions. And the costs for Beijing were limited to modest in-country expenses, since the members usually traveled as official congressional delegations on US government aircraft. One notable feature of this historical ep...

…gs (where no jury is present to be alienated) should also not be overlooked. 571 The victims' rights provisions in this country have never been used to give defendants new rights to question and potentially traumatize victims. The CVRA's expansion of victims' rights should not be...

…l banks that will be liquidated. The most drastic action was the nationalisation of Privatbank, the biggest bank in the country (market share 17.7% by assets, 36% of deposits of physical persons), owned by an oligarch that was posing a systemic risk to the country’s economy and w...

The country's economic malaise has also led to a reportedly sharp rise in plain old, non- Islamically sanctioned prostitution. Tehran's high-end taxi drivers, often underemployed university graduates, casually point them out on the street. "When economies take a downturn, infor...

…olitical paralysis. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been unwilling or unable to get his promised reforms enacted, and the country’s economy continues to shrink. Mexico is watching its growth collapse. While its president, Enrique Pefia Nieto, is a courageous and intelligent leader...

…or weeks at a time: two brigades, 200 tanks and dozens of APCs in a massive motorcade from the bottom to the top of the country and back again. We dubbed it Cinerama, from the Hebrew words for Sinai and the Heights, Ramah. If there was an escalation of hostilities, the northern c...

…working with Lord Howell when UBS acted as advisor to the State Power Corporation of China on the restructuring of that country’s national power industry. Competitive power pools have since sprung up all over the world, and regulators have pulled apart previously fully-integrate...

‘Top 75’ Countries Ranked by Net Debt as % of GDP... 2009 Net Debt Rank Country Outstanding ($B) YY As % of World Total Net Debt as % of GDP 05-09 | 2009 GDP Change 2009 2005 YIY As%of 2009 Budget World Surplus / Total Deficit ($B) As % of World Gross Unemploy- Deficit...

… a massive and sustained talent recruitment campaign designed to recruit leading experts from overseas to assist in the country’s modernization drive. Initiated in 2008, the TTP aims to recruit leading overseas scientists and experts who work in areas that are deemed high priori...

… terrorism —are all "alive and kicking" and growing even stronger. But there is good news too. Israel is the strongest country in the region, from Tripoli in Libya to Tehran. It's the strongest militarily, strategically, and economically, and if we know act wisely—diplomatically...