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Moreover, she continued, the state’s political machinery rests in the capital, which “facilitated the extraction of South Hwanghae’s grain” to feed the Pyongyang population, meaning that while South Hwanghae could produce the food, the province lacked the economic and...
On the other side, Russia remains true to the quip of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt about the Soviet Union: "An Upper Volta with nukes." OK, today it is not just rockets. The Kremlin's power also flows (more effectively, in fact) from those pipelines that have hooked Europe on...
On September 17, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act. The measure, which allows for some domestic oil drilling and exploration in a zone 50 to 100 miles offshore, is widely viewed as a concession by congressional Democrats to the Republican...
In political terms, Obama's response was late, and Pelosi's even later - drilling had already become a one-hit wonder for the GOP. Although the Democrats succeeded in watering down the bill, limiting drilling to at least 50 miles offshore (the Republicans had sought a 3-mile limit), helping...
The issue has become, to some extent, the Republican answer to any and all questions that come up on the economy. McCain returns to it in nearly every speech on the subject, even though drilling has as much to do with the collapse of Wall Street financial firms or the...