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...pre-referendum promotional blitz only compounded the advantages Chávez typically enjoys. The president hosts a talk show for about five hours each Sunday broadcast on state media, addressing current events and showcasing copious on-location footage of Chávez’s social-welfare programs in action. In 2006, Chávez refused to renew the broadcasting license for Venezuela’s second largest TV station, which had voiced opposition to Chávez’s policies and may have endorsed a coup against Chávez in April 2002. There are also reports...
...something. Seduced by the fervor of the inauguration and the unprecedented nature of the economic crisis, many of us assumed there would be overwhelming public support for the stimulus package, as indeed there was before the Republicans got in their licks. But we should have learned from the pre-election bailout package that the mere fact that the public is in a panic about economic conditions doesn’t mean that Republicans will easily sign on to remedies that cost unfathomable amounts of money. The October bailout package, indisputably and critically necessary, was opposed by a solid majority...
...without diminishing the already difficult case of the Palestinian Authority, one to which it is more sympathetic. And Russia, which voted for Security Council Resolution 1593, cannot now ignore the arrest warrant simply because it disputes the results of the investigation it authorized. Once the ICC’s pre-trial chamber issues the indictment, the onus falls on the Security Council to act. The Court cannot enforce its own arrest warrants. The council, however, can either choose to defer the prosecution for a year under Article 16 of the Rome Statute, or it can act to enforce...
...Last week, the Times reported the impending indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir by a pre-trial panel at the International Criminal Court. Having received Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo’s application for an arrest warrant in July 2008, the panel will likely issue the warrant within the next two weeks. At the same time, the Kenyan government is deliberating over whether to try suspected perpetrators of last year’s post-election violence or to ask the ICC to open an investigation. Likewise, the Palestinian Authority has asked the ICC to open an investigation into...
...Munich, in a speech so important that Biden read it word for word, without Bidenic huzzahs - he didn't say, for example, "Vladimir Putin, Lord love 'im!" He did say quietly startling things like "We will listen. We will consult." And "We will strive to act preventively, not pre-emptively." And "America will act aggressively against climate change." He offered an unclenched fist to Iran and a willingness to push "the reset button" with Russia. (Read "Europe: No Blank Check for Obama on Global Security...