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...report that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are now raising $500 million a year from the opium trade. What does that mean in terms of their capabilities and what they are able to do with that sort of money? It's clear that drug money is paying for the Taliban's operational costs within Afghanistan. That means that every time a U.S. soldier is killed in an IED attack or a shootout with militants, drug money helped pay for that bomb or paid the militants who placed it. Opium funding helps pay for salaries, weapons, explosives and food. The Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the New Narcoterrorism Syndicates | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

Tell me a little bit about your HBO show coming out in September. It takes the basic premise of the short story, which is about a writer named Jonathan Ames who puts an ad on Craigslist and becomes a private detective. It stars Jason Schwartzman playing Jonathan Ames. I mean, he's not playing me, just a character with my name. And Ted Danson plays an older friend, a mentor in the publishing business. Jonathan does freelance work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writer Jonathan Ames | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...failure will mean to Main Street what Lehman Brothers meant to Wall Street," says Van Haroutunian, a lawyer at Ballon Stoll Bader & Nadler who represents small apparel firms - many of which have borrowed money from CIT. Haroutunian says he has gotten calls this week from more than 40 of his clients who are nervous about what a CIT bankruptcy would do to their business. "It's going to be a tremendous problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In CIT Woes, Some See Restart of Financial Crisis | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...Taylor's testimony is expected to last six to eight weeks, and a final verdict in the case is likely a year off. If convicted, he would serve his jail sentence - he's facing life imprisonment - in Britain. But even if he is acquitted, it doesn't mean his worries are over. Last week, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report on the 1989-2003 civil wars. It has a list of eight warlords whom it wants brought to trial for crimes against humanity - and Taylor is on that list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Lies and Rumors': Liberia's Charles Taylor on the Stand | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...clear away "old preconceptions or ideological dogmas." "Countries are going to have interests," he said, sounding very much the community-organizing theorist. "And changes in foreign policy approaches by my Administration aren't suddenly going to make all those interests that may diverge from ours disappear. What it does mean, though, is at the margins, they are more likely to want to cooperate than not cooperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Pillars of Obama's Foreign Policy | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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