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...covert detention centers in several East European countries as well as in Thailand, Afghanistan and Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. Holding prisoners in secret and denying them recourse to judicial hearings in a timely fashion are more than appalling. The Bush Administration seems not to understand that if you want to "export" democracy, you need to act like a democracy, not a totalitarian state. Say all you want about the ends justifying the means, the reality is that such actions undermine our stated reason for occupying Iraq. If President George W. Bush is intent on remaking Iraq into a democracy, he needs...
...regulations, which are pending separately in the Department of Commerce (DoC) and the Department of Defense (DoD), are designed to control what are known as “deemed exports,” according to the DoC. In its proposal, the DoD describes deemed exports as the transmission of information abroad or “any access to export-controlled information or technology by a foreign national...
...proposals also do not make a distinction between “fundamental research”—research that will be published in journals or otherwise made public—and classified research. Fundamental research is exempt from deemed-export controls under the current rules...
...life to the city. The omnipresent police keep crime in check, but also beat up "undesirables" in broad daylight. Some modern shops stock luxury consumer goods - at least in their windows - but most shoppers earn wages that barely cover staples. At night harsh floodlights glare over silent, empty streets. Exporting leftover Soviet weapons worldwide and, allegedly, serving as a conduit for illegal arms trafficking from Russia, help keep the Lukashenko state afloat. It is also dependent on Russia for the country's main legitimate source of income: two oil refineries that process cheap Russian crude and sell it to Europe...
...Asia, for its part, must accept greater responsibility for its economic destiny. Time and again, currency fluctuations have proved to be one of the biggest detriments to the region's export-led growth. The only way out is for Asia to become less dependent upon exports, by pressing on with measures to boost internal private consumption. Currency manipulation?whether it's by the Japanese, the Chinese, or other quasi-pegged Asian economies?is no panacea for unbalanced growth...