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that view is on track. Spain in particular is in difficult shape (see page 5); its banks and government may have to borrow 1.5 trillion Euros over the next 12 months while in recession. Both the ECB and EU will need to keep the spigot open to prevent Spain from becoming a bigge...

…if the Judiciary were to abdicate its responsibilities to protect crime victims and leave the task to another branch of government. This Article also contains a short Afterword, which recounts developments subsequent to the drafting of this Article in January 2007. [*865] II. V...

…aza remains a deeply sad and deprived place. “The focus on humanitarian aid by both flotilla organizers and the Israeli government is infuriating and misleading,” Gisha, an Israeli human rights group focused on Gaza, said in a statement. “There is no shortage of food in Gaza, but...

…2006 the CIA waived its minimum requirements for him. Later Snowden pointed out from Moscow that in 2006 the fed- eral government employed his entire family. His father was serving in the Coast Guard; his mother was an administrative clerk for the federal court in Maryland; his...

…would also risk forfeiting the American support we’d secured by our efforts to reach a peace deal, an asset all Israeli governments would benefit from in other circumstances and contexts in the future. Fortunately, I had an alternative to a coalition with the Likud. Alarmed at t...

… here. Even when I travel around China, I keep a room here,” he says. The hotel is well placed near to China’s seat of government around Tian’anmen Square where he has an extensive network of contacts. His latest book, How China’s Lead- ers Think: The Inside Story of China’s Pa...

…tries agreed to release strategic petroleum reserves to bring oil prices down. They have a lot of ammunition to do so; government-controlled oil inventories are at least 1.5 billion barrels, and so far, all they have done is authorize the release of 60 million barrels. The timel...

…at can create new jobs. The assets of the refinery were recently sold at auction, but operating agreement with the USVI Government only states the buyers will use the oil storage portion in addition to constructing an asphalt plant on the property, which projects to only 80 jobs...

…erview with Brian Williams, op. cit. See also The Snowden Saga, Vanity Fair. op.ed and Bamford. Wired. op.ed. “Chinese government had managed...”-- Jane Perlez and Keith Bradsher, “China Said to Have HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020411

…ys later, Raful chaired a wide-ranging discussion on Lebanon. Near the end of the session, I asked him directly whether government ministers were aware that our war plan “will inevitably lead to a clash with the Syrians”. Raful hesitated for a second, but then answered briskly: “...

Whistle-blower | 97 stay and fight the United States government in the courts.” That bit of braggadocio would not be proven out. Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill in their reporting did not concern themselves with any of the mechanics of the largest theft of top secret document...

…arking the interest of the Arab region and neighboring countries in the information and communication technology, the e-government and the knowledge economy, and in facilitating access to the people in our region to global best practices. Our international experiences in various...

… have brought about democracy, but that does not mean it failed. Egypt now knows the impact mass action can have on its government. They have seen not one, but two governments fall as a direct result of protests and popular action. Egypt may be moving back toward a military dicta...

…nomist, promotes China’s state-driven economy, while Philippe Barret, a former Maoist activist of the late 1960s turned government official and sovereigntist, published a book in 2018 titled “N’ayez pas peur de la Chine” (“Do not fear China”). GERMANY China has so far made only...

…espects it as a nation- state and not a transnational revolutionary movement. Finally, disorganization within the U.S. government and a "go it alone" mentality have accounted for many of Washington's internal difficulties in responding to the Iranian challenge. To alleviate this...