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...popular blame is being directed at what many in Latin America think of as the sponsor of globalization, the U.S. "I've not seen anything quite like this sudden loss of face," says Terry Karl, a Latin America expert at Stanford University. "The U.S. just isn't setting the agenda anymore in Latin America...
...anxious to purchase Russian natural gas and oil (roughly half of the European Union's gas supplies currently come from Russia), and the U.S. and Japan want to expand business there. So far, political unease hasn't affected growing commercial ties, although that situation could change if Putin's agenda comes into more direct conflict with the West's. If the prospect of Russia using its energy policy to pursue geopolitical goals scares the West, nobody in authority is saying so very loudly. In Washington, the State Department urged both Moscow and Kiev to reach a compromise...
...Mubarak?s regime appears to be intent upon neutralizing reformers like Nour to ensure that his ruling party remains the country?s only viable force for achieving development and stability. To strengthen his position, Mubarak has adopted reform as his own agenda and promised change from within. Another part of Mubarak?s strategy seems to be to show that it is Muslim fundamentalists who pose the real challenge, and that his steady regime alone can prevent them from taking over and imposing an Islamic state...
...force of syndicalism. Several NGOs in the habitually backbiting development community put aside their differences and launched integrated awareness campaigns (Make Poverty History in Britain, the ONE Campaign in the U.S.) aimed at educating people about global poverty and registering millions of supporters online. Blair announced a G-8 agenda with a goal of getting $50 billion in aid and 100% debt cancellation, and DATA lobbied the White House to be an active partner, reminding it that Blair had stood by the Administration in the past. To their surprise, they didn't have to do much pitching. Over beers with...
...this man, who had so steadfastly refused to match rhetoric with reality for so long, would ever finally hit a wall he couldn't deny, a fact he couldn't dismiss, a world he couldn't fully control. We wonder no more. Bush's signature second-term domestic agenda--Social Security reform--died a pitiless, lingering death in 2005, as the public simply refused to buy it. His gleeful opening of the fiscal spigot--the biggest increase in public spending since F.D.R.--got deficit hawks squawking enough to force the first tiny potential cuts in pork, if nowhere near enough...