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...people. People out there are angry, and they're angry about the same issues you're angry about." He was referring to G-20 globalization policies that he says take advantage of the cheapest labor markets and most vulnerable environments, which are running roughshod, in the anarchists' view, over the 6.7 billion people not invited to this week's meeting. (Read about how anarchists disrupted Seattle...
...hope is that through all these efforts, a narrative arc about Detroit will emerge over the next year that can somehow make a difference. While we do not intend to be cheerleaders or apologists, we do have a point of view: we want Detroit to recover and find its way into the future. (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...
...Brooks Patterson, the long-serving and exceptionally able chief executive of suburban Oakland County, a prosperous community that borders Detroit to the north, represents the latter view well. "They say, 'As Detroit goes, so goes Oakland County,' " Patterson said a few weeks ago. "Not true!" He apparently believes that Eight Mile Road, the fabled thoroughfare that defines Detroit's northern border, is an impermeable membrane insulating his county from the city's ills. But Patterson knows that Oakland's prized AAA bond rating is in peril because the rating agencies are mindful of the county's proximity to Detroit...
...demonizing foreign pressure worked [for Ahmadinejad] before," says a French Foreign Ministry official who asks not to be named, "but this time Ahmadinejad is getting nothing - either on the nuclear issue or by blaming foreign powers for the antiregime protests." For that reason, the official shares Moisi's view that domestic unrest in Iran is more likely to weaken Tehran's defiance of international calls to end its uranium-enrichment program than it is to rally support. And at the end of the day, he notes, any contrast between Obama and Sarkozy is strictly a matter of style...
...likely. Latin America's notorious zero-sum, negotiation-averse politics seem to have rumbled into Honduras like an active volcano. If the two sides can't come to an agreement now, with Zelaya in plain view of his dangerously polarized friends and foes, Latin America watchers worry that worse violence could erupt in one of the hemisphere's poorest countries. Clashes were already under way Tuesday between Zelaya supporters and soldiers and riot police swinging clubs and shooting tear gas. "Micheletti may actually be less likely to accept a settlement now, given what a bitter pill Zelaya's return...