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Only border measures established by multilateral agreement and targeted toward fossil fuels and energy-intensive methods of production should be allowable, according to Frankel. These measures would either impose tariffs or require an exchange of carbon permits, and create a uniform method to evaluate the actual environmental impacts of production...
...opponent, Sen.ator John McCain is hoping for a miraculous turnaround—or a disastrous gaffe. In desperation, the Republican’s campaign has ferociously attacked the Los Angeles Times for its claim that releasing a video from 2003 of Senator Barach Obama would violate a confidentiality agreement between it and a source, and its subsequent decision not to make the video public...
...next U.S. President will discover, however, that one thing unites most of Iraq's politicians. Awkwardly, that is opposition to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), the understanding that would formalize and legalize the continued presence of U.S. forces on Iraqi soil. In late October, when the Bush Administration leaked a draft of SOFA that it had worked out with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, his Cabinet demanded a renegotiation. No particular provision seems to be objectionable so much as the agreement itself: it is practically political suicide for an Iraqi politician to be seen authorizing...
...McCain’s support of free trade far outshines his opponent’s. Since its implementation in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has created hundreds of billions of dollars for the US through trade with both Canada and Mexico, maintaining and generating US jobs. McCain also supports the expansion of free trade by approving a free trade agreement with Colombia...
...major political victory for the president, who built a consensus on a difficult issue and isolated the hard left. "With this reform the national economy wins; all Mexicans win," Calderon said in a televised message after Tuesday's vote. "And it's particularly important that Mexicans have reached agreement at a time when the world economy goes through an especially adverse situation...