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Here We Go Again: UK Secret Inquests, 2nd Round

BBC reports that the UK government hasn’t given up on pushing for secret inquests:

Ministers are reintroducing measures to hold some inquests in secret on national security grounds.
The new bill covering coroners, murder laws, witness protection and sentencing comes months after the secret inquest plans were dropped in Parliament.
[…]
Under the proposals, the press […]

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The Medvedev Doctrine and American Strategy

The Russian invasion of Georgia and its political consequences leaves the United States in an extremely difficult strategic position. While Russia seems to have plenty of options, the U.S. does not. So can - and will - the Russian reassertion of hegemony in the former Soviet Union and in the world at large be contained?

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