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Ian Fisher: An American Soldier's Journey Told In Pictures

Denver Post | Posted 11.08.2009 | Denver

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This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a ph...

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Leo Frank PBS Documentary Shows Complicated Story Of His Lynching (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Leo Frank Lynching, Leo Frank Murder, Leo Frank Trial, Pbs Documentary, Leo Frank, Atlanta, Pbs, Georgia, People v. Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Home News

Tonight, PBS airs "The People V. Leo Frank," a documentary that chronicles the bizarre, ugly case of Leo Frank. Frank was a Cornell-educated industria...

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Target of Political Prosecution By Bush-Era Justice Department Fights Back

Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Attorneys, Justice Department, Political Prosecution, Bush Justice Department, Georgia, Politics News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post The prosecution had acted in a way that was "demonstrably honorable," and the defense's charges that ...

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Counter-Factual History: McCain Is President and Bono Wins the Nobel Prize

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Straits of Hormuz, Syria, Shanghai Treaty Organization, Mongolia, Vaclav Havel, Lithuania, Bono, Kosovo, China, Cold War, Robert Kagan, Putin, Iran, Nato, Joe Lieberam, Russia, Lech WałęSa, Czech Republic, Latvia, John McCain, Serbia, League of Democracies, Nobel Peace Prize, Colombia, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Medvedev, Cnn, Poland, Georgia, Israel, Wolf Blitzer, Tawian, Lita, World News

"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Benyamin Netanyahu, Uk, Guinea, Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq, China, Karzai, Iran, Irish Vote, Guido Westerwelle, Russia, Mahmourd Abbas, Honduras, Solana, Us, Germany, Zelaya, Micheletti, Palestinian, UN General Assembly, G20 Climate Change, Yemen. Lebanon, Medvedev, France, Al Shabaab, Mcchrystal, Georgia, Angela Merkel, Taliban, Afghanistan, Hizbul, Ninawa, Qum, World Affairs, Foreign Affairs Roundup, World News

This Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs

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Russia, Georgia view war report's blame through lenses

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.02.2009 | Home

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Headline from an English-language Russian news site. Worldfocus producer Christine Kiernan writes about the reaction to the recently-released...

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EU report: Georgian attack started war with Russia

AP | RAF CASERT and DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Russia, Georgia War, Eu Report Georgia, Georgia, Georgia War Eu, Eu Georgia, Georgia War 2008, Brussels, Russia, Georgia, Home News

BRUSSELS — Georgia and Russia both claimed to find vindication in Wednesday's independent report on the causes of their 2008 war, but neither seemed likely to be able to take the moral high ground because of its blunt judgments.

The EU-sponsored report supports Russia's insistence that Georgia launched the short but intense war with an indiscriminate rocket and artillery barrage on the separatist capital of South Ossetia – an act the commission said was not justifiable under international law.

Georgia can find support for its claim that Russia taunted and provoked it for years before the assault, then responded with disproportionate force, sending armored vehicles deep into undisputed Georgian territory.

Russia's retaliation went "far beyond the reasonable limits of defense," the report said, rejecting claims the country was trying to prevent genocide with its invasion of its southern neighbor, a former Soviet nation with fervent hopes of joining the EU and NATO.

The beginnings of the July 2008 war had been murky, its aftermath contentious.

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Russia ready for restoration of ties with NATO

AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Moscow-Russia, Russia, Georgia, Home News

MOSCOW — The Kremlin says it's ready to fully restore cooperation with NATO, which was suspended in the aftermath of Russia's war with Georgia.

President Dmitry Medvedev's spokeswoman Nataliya Timakova said Wednesday that a planned visit to Moscow by the NATO chief demonstrates that the alliance is ready for better ties.

Relations between NATO and Russia were frozen after the August 2008 war. NATO accused Russia of using excessive force and occupying Georgian territory.

Timakova says that an EU-commissioned report released Wednesday showed that NATO had made some decision too quickly.

The report says that Georgia's attack on its breakaway province of South Ossetia marked the start of the war, but it also concluded that Russia retaliated with excessive force.

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Russia and Georgia blamed over war

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

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EU report accuses both sides of violating international law in last year's conflict....

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Red Cross Aids In Georgia Flood Recovery

American Red Cross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Impact

Read More: Georgia Flooding, Flooding, Red Cross, Georgia, Impact News

ATLANTA - The American Red Cross began client casework today as preliminary damage assessment shows that nearly 2,000 homes have been affected by floo...

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Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

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Study of Georgia's Wrongfully Convicted Highlights Powerful Need for Reform

John Terzano | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, The Justice Project, Georgia, Eyewitness-Errors, Criminal Justice System, Politics News

For twenty innocent Georgians, eight years is the average length of time each spent behind bars for a crime they did not commit.

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Atlanta Flooding: 3 Killed, 5 Missing As Storms Drench Southeast

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home

ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...

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Cracker Barrel Attack: Tasha Hill Beaten In Front Of Daughter, Called Racial Slurs (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

On Tuesday evening police arrested Troy Dale West for beating an African-American army reservist in front of her daughter outside a Cracker Barrel res...

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Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Bill of Rights, The People, Eighteenth Century, State, Wickard v Filburn, Secession, James Madison, Secede, Democratic, Scotus, Civil War, Perry, Governor, President, John C Calhoun, Republican, Jefferson, Pawlenty, Gonzales v Raich, New Yorker, Federal Government, Bonkers in Georgia, Union, Nullification Crisis, Rick Perry, Virginia Resolution, Kentucky Resolutions, States, State Sovereignty, Hertzberg, Alabama, States Rights, Democrat, Congress, Thomas Jefferson, Texas, 10th Amendment, Democrats, Minnesota, Hendrik Hertzberg, John Calhoun, Tenth Amendment, Nullification, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Madison, South Carolina, Georgia, Tim Pawlenty, Court, Calhoun, Politics News

The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

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What Happened To The Soviet Space Monkeys? (VIDEO)

Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Georgia, Abkhanzia, Video, Animals, Monkey, Animal Videos, Space Monkeys, Green News

Al Jazeera English explores what happened to the famous Soviet monkeys who were launched into space during the 1980s. The descendants of those monkeys...

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Pres. Obama: Time for Washington to Do Less Abroad

Doug Bandow | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Europe, Macedonia, Intervention, President Barack Obama, Iraq, Kosovo, Cyprus, China, Japan, Foreign Policy, Iran, Venezuela, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, India, Afghanistan, Honduras, Cuba, North Korea, Greece, World News

The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.

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Shaping the Legacy of the Recovery Act: A View from the States

David Adkins | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, David Adkins, Indiana, Economy, Mitch Daniels, Council of State Governments, Georgia, Economic Recovery, Joe Biden, Politics News

While the New Deal was about federal agencies, the Recovery Act is about federal partnership, with states leading the charge in providing essential services to the vulnerable while jump-starting economic growth.

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Cash-Strapped States Shut Down Hundreds Of Offices

wsj.com | LESLIE EATON, RYAN KNUTSON and PHILIP SHISHKIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: State Worker Furloughs, State Budgets, Georgia, National Association of State Budget Officers, California, Business News

California drivers can't line up to renew their licenses Friday. Wisconsin natives can't order copies of their birth certificates. Georgia consumers w...

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A Slap in the Face

Deborah Copaken Kogan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Walmart, Slap, Child Abuse, Time-Outs, Crime, Unsolicited-Advice, Parenting, Unsolicited Parenting Advice, Georgia, Stone Mountain, Living News

Unless I'm beating my toddler in the middle of a Wal-Mart -- which I'm proud to report I haven't resorted to yet, not that I haven't been tempted -- your unsolicited advice is not welcome.

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Freed Academic Haleh Esfandiari: 'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution'

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Evin Prison, Kennebunkport, Harsh Interrogations, Iran Election, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iran Regime Change, Iran, Iran Liveblogging, Diane Tucker, Mental Stress, Green Wave, The Inner Life, Voting Problems, Haleh Esfandiari, Civil Rights, Stress, Green Movement, Iran Post Election Crisis, Women’s Rights, Kian Tajbakhsh, Press Freedom, Mixed Marriage, Women’s Books, Voting, Fear Watch, Tehron Mass Trial, Twitter, Hijab, Iran Solitary Confinement, Middle East Politics, European Union, Georgia, Color Revolution, Obama Mideast Trip, Velvet Revolution, Islamic Veil, Iran Protest Movement, Ukraine, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nico Pitney Iran Liveblogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Haleh Esfandiari Solitary Confinement, Bush Administration, My Prison My Home, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran Family Protection Law, Islamic Revolution, Democracy Promotion, Diane Tucker Iran Blogs, Iranian Women’s Rights, Voter’s Rights, Woodrow Wilson Center, Iran's Cultural Prison, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News

Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.

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Bermuda, U.S. Coast Warned As Hurricane Bill Stays Offshore

AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Bermuda, Hurricane Bill Forecast, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Hurricane Bill, Georgia, South Carolina, Coastal Flooding, North Carolina, Home News

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...

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Want to See Neighborhoods that Beat the Bust? Take a Walk

John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Boston, Pennsylvania, Living News, New Mexico, Personal Health, Neighborhoods, Health, Home Sales, Georgia, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Cities, New York, Home Foreclosures, Business News

Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.

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VICTORY: Dynegy Out of the New Coal Business

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Blackstore Group, Sierra Club, Clean Up Dynergy, Georgia, Dynergy, Green News

Three years ago Dynegy launched plans to partner with LS Power and become the largest new developer of coal-fired power plants. Yesterday Dynegy officially terminated those plans.

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