http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:10:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hillary Clinton parses the withdraw date issue, at the international conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday in Kabul - length 1:14 Leaders Renew Vows of Support for Afghanistan July 20, 2010 By ALISSA J. RUBIN, RICHARD A. OPPEL, Jr. and MARK LANDLER Pool photo by Paul J. Richards President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan with Secretary of State ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1170 from Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/513251/Russia Country, eastern Europe and northern Asia, formerly the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Area: 6,592,800 sq mi (17,075,400 sq km). Population (2009 est.): 141,852,000. Capital: Moscow. The population is primarily Russian; minorities include Tatars and Ukrainians. Languages: Russian (official), various Turkic ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1133 Post your international travel, or immigration stories under this new section of Balkingpoints.com Follow the posting instructions here, and check the box for B/P Globetrotter under the Categories selection at the right of the posting form. You can include any pictures and video clips you have, and enable or ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/700 San Francisco, CA- Is it foolish to rely on corporations at all?  One economist, Robert Reich, says “Yes”. The scope of the Horizon Deepwater disaster continues to unfold exponentially. Today we offer a round up of the more compelling angles. The daily meetings held by Admiral Thad Allen and others often ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1098 These global paranoids come out of the woodwork at every summit of international leaders now. All the G20's, climate summits like Copenhagen, just like clockwork. I have to say it was more of a self-fulfilling prophecy this time. Most of the protestors are peaceful. Woven in there are always few ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1099 Football fans in South Africa revelled in a long night of celebrations as the final hours ticked down before the 2010 World Cup - length 1:37 http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1095 Here is an ongoing case that shocked me utterly when I heard about it - a college student was arrested and charged with terrorism just because he got into a purely verbal dispute with a faculty member, and the police has kept him in cutody without informing his family. The student's ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1075 I'm not qualified to talk about oil in depth, if you'll pardon the pun, but it seems (to my surprise) that no-one has raised the point yet. To me the oil leak in the Mexican Gulf is one of the most important things that's happened lately, and it puts the ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1060 With the costs of name-brand drugs rising exponentially over the past 20 years and higher premiums and co-pays, US citizens have, to a large extent, been able to count on lower-priced generics, which have always been assumed to be the same as their name-brand equivalents. This ... http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1065 Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at the United Nations - length 20:23 Secretary Clinton press conference - length 14:38 What Say You? How effective can the NPT be for curbing the spread of nuclear weapons worldwide? Log In http://www.balkingpoints.com/balk/archives/1052