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- US intelligence: "We can no longer call shots alone."
- European Union will be "hobbled giant" by 2025.
- Triumph of western democracy not certain.
| Friday, November 21st, 2008 | |
| 12:24 pm | Yikes!!! I'm a Slave to Socialized Medicine  A doctor makes a rare house call to visit patients in Florida. While such house calls are uncommon in the US, Steve Weissman explains that in France, where he and his wife live, they are common. (Photo: Gregg Matthews / The New York Times) |
| 12:19 pm | President for 60 More Days, Bush Tearing Apart Protection for America's Wilderness Oil shale mining in Rocky Mountains gets go-ahead. "Midnight regulations" to dismantle safeguards. Washington - George Bush is working at a breakneck pace to dismantle at least 10 major environmental safeguards protecting America's wildlife, national parks and rivers before he leaves office in January. |
| 12:13 pm | Children Dying in Haiti, Victims of Food Crisis Port-au-Price, Haiti - The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly. In pockets of Haiti accessible only by donkey or foot, children are dying of malnutrition - their already meager food supply cut by a series of devastating storms that destroyed crops, wiped out livestock and sent food prices spiraling. |
| 12:15 pm | This Is Change? Twenty Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House A who's who guide to the people poised to shape Obama's foreign policy. U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. |
| 12:17 pm | Bush Signs Jobless Benefits Extension Washington - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach. Bush signed an extension of jobless benefits into law just before 8 a.m., as he was preparing to leave the White House for a morning flight to Lima, Peru, to attend the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. |
| 8:03 am | Markets Dive in Last Hour, Carving New Lows  Markets tumbled for a second consecutive day, closing at a five-year low. (Photo: UPI) |
| 8:02 am | Report Says CIA Withheld Information From White House Washington - The senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Thursday called for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department during its inquiry into the 2001 shoot-down of an American missionary plane by the Peruvian air force with help from a CIA spotter plane. |
| 7:57 am | Bailout or Bust: How to Save the Big Three From Themselves The American automobile industry occupies a near-mythic status in the nation's cultural and economic imagination. President-elect Barack Obama echoes the sentiments of many when he says that Detroit is "the backbone of American manufacturing." If it is-Detroit's economic importance is great but now occupies a lesser role than it did before it entered a slow-but-steady decline in the 1970s-then it suffers from acute and advanced damage that will require major surgery. |
| 7:55 am | Mukasey Collapses During Address in Washington; Hospitalized Overnight Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey collapsed last evening while delivering a speech to a prominent legal group and was rushed to George Washington University Hospital. |
| 8:00 am | The American Worker I am an American worker, and you are damn right I want the wealth to be shared and spread. I am talking about the wealth my hard work helped to create, but was taken from me by George Bush's base, the very rich, or as I know them, my corporate bosses. For the past eight years I have watched W.'s and McCain's (Country Club First) base grab the largest share of our country's wealth. Where did they take it from? They took it from my family's pocketbook, and my co-workers' families' pocketbooks. |
| 7:58 am | Sun Sets on US Power: Report Predicts End of Dominance The United States' leading intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an increasingly unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of western-style democracy is no longer assured, and some states are in danger of being "taken over and run by criminal networks". |
| Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | |
| 5:05 pm | Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantanamo In the first hearing on the government's justification for holding detainees at the Guant??namo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release. The judge, Richard J. |
| 4:56 pm | Gaza: On Top of Humanitarian Disaster, a News Blackout Ramallah, West Bank - Israel has imposed a virtual news blackout on the Gaza Strip. For the last ten days no foreign journalists have been able to enter the besieged territory to report on the escalating humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's complete closure of Gaza's borders for the last two weeks. Steve Gutkin, the AP bureau chief in Jerusalem and head of Israel's Foreign Press Association, said that he personally "knows of no foreign journalist that has been allowed into Gaza in the last week." |
| 4:49 pm | Jobless Claims Jump Unexpectedly to 16-Year High Washington - New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 16-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, providing more evidence of a rapidly weakening job market expected to get even worse next year. The government said new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 from a downwardly revised figure of 515,000 in the previous week. That's much higher than Wall Street economists' expectations of 505,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. |
| 4:45 pm | Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq It's the ultimate argument, the final bastion against withdrawal, and over these last years, the Bush administration has made sure it would have plenty of heft. Ironically, its strength lies in the fact that it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi politics, the relative power of Shiites or Sunnis, the influence of Iran, or even the riptides of war. It really doesn't matter what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki or oppositional cleric Muqtada al-Sadr think about it. |
| 3:34 pm | Fence to Carve Up Fragile Border Preserve San Diego, California - Another chapter in U.S.-Mexico border relations is about to close. In the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is completing construction of a 22-kilometre triple fence along the San Diego-Tijuana border. It is being done over the objections of environmental activists living near the border, who are worried both about the toll on wildlife and those seeking entry into the United States. |
| 3:28 pm | Obama to Usher In Major Shift in Trade Policy Washington - The election of Barack Obama has delivered a decisive victory to "fair traders," mainly Democrats and their allies who for years have contended that the free-trade policies of past administrations were recipes for American job losses and environmental degradation. Obama's win marks the first time in modern American history "that a candidate advocating a shift in our trade policies in a decisively pro-worker, pro-consumer, pro-environment direction has been elected president," |
| 3:25 pm | "Conscience Rule" Creates Quandary for Hospitals Bush is expected to sign a rule giving health care workers latitude to deny medications and procedures. Seen as a broadside on abortion it could also put hospitals at odds with state laws ensuring rape victims' access to emergency contraception. Now that Sen. Barack Obama is president-elect, some pro-choice activists don't think it's so dire that President Bush is on the brink of signing a health-policy rule that could restrict access to contraception and abortion. |
| 3:22 pm | "Conscience Rule" Creates Quandary for Hospitals Bush is expected to sign a rule giving health care workers latitude to deny medications and procedures. Seen as a broadside on abortion it could also put hospitals at odds with state laws ensuring rape victims' access to emergency contraception. Now that Sen. |
| 3:18 pm | US Right Stymies Sensitive Medical Research Important US research to reduce HIV infection may have been prevented in recent years because scientists have censored their funding requests in response to political controversy, according to a study published on Tuesday. |