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Aug 2, 2011

Beware the Guns of August

By Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times

From Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times:  When something really drastic happens in the month of August, European leaders are often caught on the hop.

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NATOSource

Aug 2, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 1

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NATOSource

Aug 2, 2011

NATO throws Gaddafi and his sons another lifeline

By the Editors of the Wall Street Journal

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NATOSource

Aug 1, 2011

Report: Gaddafi threatens assassination of Italy’s Berlusconi

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has sworn to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday. According to the newspaper, Berlusconi learned of the assassination plot through "reliable sources," though the prime minister did not elaborate which sources. Berlusconi said Gaddafi was not referring to his "political death," but […]

NATOSource

Aug 1, 2011

Russia, U.S., Canada to hold second airborne anti-terror exercise

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The Russian Air Force and NORAD, the U.S. and Canadian joint air defense command will hold a second round of anti-terrorism exercises on August 8-11, the Commander in Chief of the Eastern military district, Igor Muginov said on Monday.

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NATOSource

Aug 1, 2011

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to receive 6 new diesel subs

By RIA Novosti

New Atlanticist

Aug 1, 2011

Somalia: Beyond the Famine

By Peter Pham

Today Somalia is not only the world’s most spectacular case of a failed state—it has, after all, been more than twenty years since the benighted land has had anything resembling a central government—but, thanks to the worst drought in six decades, it is what the United Nations refugee agency has described as the “worst humanitarian […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 1, 2011

Slouching Towards a Fiscal Union

By Ben Carliner

It is an old cliché that the European Union only advances in the wake of a crisis. Recently though, it has seemed like every time the EU takes action its response is deemed too little too late.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 1, 2011

India-Israel: BFFs or Fair Weather Friends?

By Shikha Bhatnagar

Earlier this month, India experienced the first significant terrorist attack within its borders since the horrific events of November 26, 2008 (“26/11”). Although no conclusive evidence of perpetrators has been found to date and clues strongly suggest homegrown elements, the news clips, blogospheres, and twitter-universe were abuzz with conjectures on what India’s actions would and […]

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NATOSource

Aug 1, 2011

NATO starts clearing roadblocks in Kosovo

By Nebi Qena, the AP

From Nebi Qena, the AP:  NATO removed roadblocks put up by Serbs in Kosovo’s north, but barricades still remain following a week of violence that left one Kosovo policeman dead, a spokesman for the alliance said Monday. Cpt. Hans Wichter said peacekeepers have removed three roadblocks made of gravel and tree trunks that stopped the […]

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