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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKI5i_ZAW_4[/youtube]
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- Writing in the The New York Review of Books, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells highlight the importance of historical perspective in understanding the financial...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Ayqu3UJQU[/youtube]
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Obama announces new US-Russia nuclear arms reduction treaty
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wGxK1Thco[/youtube]
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- The New Republic's Noam Scheiber has an in-depth profile of President Obama’s under fire right-hand man, Rahm Emanuel, explaining why “laboring as chief of...
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- As the diplomatic temperature continues to rise in the South Atlantic, Simon Jenkins suggests that the Falklands are “the Elgin marbles of diplomacy” and a...
Obama to McCain: “we’re not campaigning anymore, the election’s over”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXUaH5P3js[/youtube]
David Cameron @ TED: Governing in the post-bureaucratic age
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ELnyoso6vI[/youtube]
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Obama reports on security review into failed Christmas terror plot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJ0oMcuJV0[/youtube]
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