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...Bush listened as Chirac explained why lifting the arms embargo on China was a good idea; he listened as German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder argued that the U.S. must be more engaged in trying to convince Iran to drop its nuclear program; and he listened as Russian President Vladimir Putin batted back concerns about creeping autocracy in the Kremlin. Bush came to Europe, heard the views, but was he conquered by the arguments...
...when Bush brought up the pace of democratic reform in Russia in their private meeting at the end of Bush's four-day, three-city tour of Europe. But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says a senior Administration official. "It was like something...
...Americans, through their investments, have becoming unwitting underwriters of the Sudanese genocide. European, Chinese, and Russian multinational firms enjoy both a lack of restrictions on doing business in Sudan and free access to American capital markets. The terrible result is that Sudan, a country with a $22 billion in foreign debt and a stagnant economy, can now afford state-of-the-art military equipment and fund large militias that ravage African villages in Darfur...
...very basic level, Meloy is a bespectacled young thirtysomething from Helena, Montana with a degree in creative writing and a uniquely nasal singing voice. In 2001, while living in Portland, he and a handful of similarly-minded individuals formed a band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their 2002 Five Songs EP (which, in trademark cheeky Decemberists fashion, was comprised...
...UNCRITICAL OF WHAT MANY SEE AS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S MOVES TOWARD AUTHORITARIANISM? We all want to see a strong, prosperous and democratic Russia. I think President Putin is on the right path to get there...