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Background on UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists Arctic & Antarctic

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EU urges action to exploit Arctic oil and gas
Nov 20 2008 23:07
European Union policymakers have called for a concerted international effort to exploit the Arctic’s oil and gas resources […]

WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, convicted last month on federal ethics charges, lost his bid for a seventh term as final ballots were counted on Tuesday. More
18 November
Beyond Joe Six-Pack
Brink Lindsey of the Cato Institute and David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute diagnose what’s ailing the Republican party.
Hagel, Unrestrained, […]

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The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla Dick Cavett on “the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High”
11 November
Palin Defends Herself in Fox Interview
In her first national television interview since the election, Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a lengthy post-mortem of the presidential campaign, criticizing the media, her campaign handlers and the aides […]

CIA: Isolated bin Laden loses control over al-Qaida
As a result of his focus on his own survival and security in the remote borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden is increasingly cut off from the daily operations of al-Qaida, CIA Director Michael Hayden reports. Also home to most of the […]

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Myanmar News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
An aerial view of a town in the southern Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar that was devastated by the cyclone More Photos
Junta launches […]

This is a very important issue. It happens that in the case of this election, we share the ‘elite, liberal’ media bias, but were the media leaning towards fundamentalist right-wing Republican philosophy, we would be the first to complain. We owe it to ourselves as intelligent human beings to carefully review both sides of every […]

 
Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question
TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.
1 November
Georgia’s Battered Face in a Separatist Republic
For 18 months, […]

U.S. Presidential Campaign: Candidates & Issues ; The evolving bailout plan ; The world after the (bailout) vote
The economy: what went wrong and what’s next?II John McCain: Economic Stimulus Plan     Barack Obama: The Economy

Demise of Reaganomics poses grave intellectual challenge to Republicans
The big, existential problem for Republicans – one which will consume it even if […]

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John McCain on […]

See also: Candidates and Issues
The Economist) … Merely by becoming president, he [Obama] would dispel many of the myths built up about America: it would be far harder for the spreaders of hate in the Islamic world to denounce the Great Satan if it were led by a black man whose middle name is Hussein; […]