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12/02/08 Link Love
- U.S. Contractor Confined More Than 1000 Foreign Workers In Windowless Warehouses In Iraq…Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, the Texas firm formerly known as Halliburton, hired the men, who’re from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
- UN Ambassador-nominee Susan Rice: I’m not going to ask John Bolton for advice.…Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama formally named Susan Rice as his nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. After the press conference, Rice spoke to The New Republic’s Dayo Olopade, telling her that she wanted “to call up former holders of the position for advice.” There was one former UN ambassador, however, who Rice said she didn’t want to speak to: John Bolton.
- Mercenaries, Sonic Blasters No Match for Pirates…Sonic blasters and private security teams have been billed as some of the best bets to ward off pirates. But an incident off the coast of Somalia is calling the sound weapons’ — and the guards’ — effectiveness into question.
- US stands by refusal to sign cluster bomb ban
- Ebony’s Person of the Year…Ebony magazine has launched an annual “Person of the Year” issue by choosing as its inaugural honoree President-Elect Barack Obama
- Obama’s birth certificate
- Jeb Bush: GOP Should Set Up “Shadow Government”…Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush’s brother Jeb says the Republican party should not cave to a Democratic majority. Rather, they should set up a “shadow government” to provide a counter-agenda.
- EU to operate ‘all over Kosovo’…The EU’s police and justice mission will start deploying throughout Kosovo on 9 December, including to Serb-controlled areas, EU officials say.
- Somalia: Another CIA-backed coup blows up
- NATO agrees cautious re-warming of Russia ties
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