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andie324

Most Russian Forces Now Out of Ukraine, Kiev Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Europe Political

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  • the bulk of Russian forces had withdrawn from Ukrainian territory,
    • andie324
      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Russian forces have left Ukraine.
  • Mr. Poroshenko appeared to be trying to create a sense of momentum around the peace process, even though a final outcome remains the subject of arduous negotiations. The very law he discussed, for example, has been the source of widely different interpretations.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      The truce between Russia and Ukraine is not set in stone yet. There is still potential for open conflict.
  • She also stressed that the path to solving the Ukraine crisis would be “long and rocky.”
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  • Mr. Poroshenko, who is due to meet with President Obama in Washington on Sept. 18, also said he would introduce a law as early as next week that would grant parts of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk temporary self-rule.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Sections of Ukraine want to be self-ruled as individual states. 
johntraurig2017

My Library - 0 views

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Middle East Interactions Political

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  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
wmaley

The Grand Strategy Obama Needs - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Russia and Ukraine Obama ISIS strategy solution sustainable conflict

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  • his effort this week to seem more muscular relies so much on a military solution that it risks a broader military entanglement.
    • wmaley
      wmaley on 10 Sep 14
       
      history is repeating itself
  • look back to 1956
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  • he Soviet Union invaded Hungary to crush a revolution while Britain and France, seeking to regain the Suez Canal, collaborated with Israel in a war against Egypt.
  • backed away from challenging the Soviet suppression of Hungary, then forced America’s European allies into an ignominious retreat from Egypt.
  • Eisenhower had a larger goal — not upsetting the delicate balance of power in the Cold War. Above all, he sought to avoid greater conflict, especially when he was trying to start arms control talks with Moscow.
    • wmaley
      wmaley on 10 Sep 14
       
      it was better in the long run to think ahead rather than solving the problem temporarily. 
  • American policy today sees the world in fragments
  • Both trace to political fragmentation in weak states living within unsettled borders. That leaves those states prone to internal dissent, and America’s recent minimalist posture has given these brewing troubles room to explode into crises.
  • rallying allies into coalitions that would ultimately share in managing peace and security. Which is where a sound strategy lies.
  • America’s allies will play that game, but only if they are sure we have a strategy and the staying power to see it through.
  • American grand strategy should identify these weak countries before they turn on themselves;
  • Today’s Russian menace and Islamic State horrors are threats to be sure, but largely because Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and other potential targets all contain within them ethnic groups and sects fighting over power and influence.
  • So Mr. Obama’s big challenge is to help weak states reconcile, compromise and unite, and thus deny enemies a chance to start civil wars.
mwhitney2017

Release of iPhone 6 Delayed in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Asia Political

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  • fastest-growing markets
  • delayed
  • Sept. 19, when sales start elsewhere
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  • told China’s three big state-owned mobile service providers
  • did not explain the delay
  • phones had not received approval from Chinese regulators to go on sale
  • iPhone could represent a threat to China’s national security. The accusations were promptly rejected by Apple.
  • caught off-guard by the last-minute change of plans
  • there are some details which are not ready,”
  • China Mobile and China Unicom
  • website carried a statement saying only that the date of the iPhone 6’s availability would “be updated soon.”
  • began selling iPhones through China Mobile
  • Apple’s fastest-growing major market
  • $5.9 billion in greater China from April to June, a 28 percent increase from the same period a year earlier
  • 16 percent
  • Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a back door in any of our products or services,
  • We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will. It’s something we feel very strongly about.
emschaeffer

Why Does Scotland Want Independence? It's Culture vs. Economics - 0 views

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Europe Social Political Economic

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    If you had told someone in 2012 that in just two years the eurozone would remain bonded together but the United Kingdom might not, they would have thought you insane. But here we are. It's been a good three centuries, but now Scotland may want out of the United Kingdom.
maggiemixon

ISIS Fight Raises Fears That Efforts to Curb Iran Will Take a Back Seat - 0 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/world/middleeast/focus-on-isis-stirs-fears-that-efforts-to-curb-iran-will-recede.html

East Political

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parkerwsmith

Australia raises terror alert level to 'high' - CNN.com - 0 views

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australia terror alert level Social Interactions political Economic Cultural

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  • Australia has raised its terror alert level to "high" for the first time since the national alert system was introduced in 2003.
anyabananas

Three get death for China train station attack | Reuters - 1 views

www.reuters.com/...xinjiang-idUSKBN0H70A220140912

Asia Social political

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  • China's leaders have vowed to strike hard at religious militants and separatist groups
    • anyabananas
      anyabananas on 12 Sep 14
       
      The Chinese government is generalizing all of a religious group, but in almost all situations, not everyone can actually be blamed or even associated that are in a particular group. 
  • Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
  • intentional homicide
    • anyabananas
      anyabananas on 12 Sep 14
       
      I thought homicide meant that the person was negligent, and therefore, non intentional. If it is intentional, isn't it murder? Is this just a fancier name? 
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  • Hundreds of people have died in unrest in Xinjiang in the past 18 months or so, the government says.
mgt2011

Rape Culture Is Real | TIME Rape culture --> clothing - 0 views

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  • a culture in which sexual violence is the norm and victims are blamed for their own assaults.
  • Is 1 in 5 American women surviving rape or attempted rape considered a cultural norm? Is 1 in 6 men being abused before the age of 18 a cultural norm?
  • s there anything you would have done differently?”)
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  • wearin
  • wearing
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      mgt2011 on 26 Mar 15
       
      The idea that outfit provokes/ is responsible for boys' actions 
  • “But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don’t despise them nearly as much as we should.”
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 26 Mar 15
       
      We find it harder to place blame on the men we view as helpful to society give excuses to boys a lot 
  • she was asking for it.
  • An analysis by RAINN found that 97% of rapists never spend a single day in jail for their crimes.
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