Saturday, September 8, 2012

Power & politics

  • Power & Politics Ballot Box Question

    Learn more about our new interactive features for Power & Politics and how you can take part in the political conversation -- live and on-screen -- here.

    www.cbc.ca

  • First families add political star power to Obama visit

    IOWA CITY, IA. - Iowa City was a couples retreat for the first families of American politics on Friday. President Barack Obama was accompanied during his rally on the University of Iowa campus by Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and ...

    www.desmoinesregister.com

  • Voto Latino: Rosario Dawson Talks People Power and Politics

    Getty Images. Rosario, who helped found the group in 2004, played coy about who she was going to vote for in the next election. Instead, she told AJ all about Voto Latino's policy forum and people, power and politics theme this year. Watch the interview!

    www.extratv.com

  • Ex-police chief in China political scandal charged with defection, power abuse ...

    BEIJING - A former police chief whose flight to a U.S. consulate set off China's biggest political scandal in years has been charged with crimes including defection and bribe taking, possibly indicating the turbulent affair is moving closer to a ...

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • Unlikely coalition could still keep PQ from power

    The Parti Quebecois is hardly a novelty in provincial politics and its core philosophy, beyond formal sovereignty which is not currently popular, is not to change the approach of the past 40 years.

    cnews.canoe.ca

  • DNC's show of power: Reviewing the political theater of the party's convention

    Did you happen to notice how, in his masterly mix of reciting and extemporizing, global statesman and Yale Law School graduate Bill Clinton repeatedly inserted the language of back-porch authority into his convention speech?

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • In Politics, Surrender to the Higher Power of Your Choice

    But that's understandable - they'd already invoked their higher power in the much-discussed video asserting, "the government is the only thing that we all belong to.

    reason.com

  • Gary Doer at both US political conventions, glad-handing party power brokers

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Gary Doer has been on the ground at both the Democratic and Republican conventions over the past two weeks, "flying the Canadian flag" to a barrage of the biggest power brokers in the United States. "All the people who are going to be ...

    www.edmontonjournal.com

  • Security certificates process has evolved, ex-CSIS official says

    In an exclusive interview with host Evan Solomon on CBC News Network's Power and Politics, Ray Boisvert, former assistant director of intelligence for CSIS, said intense scrutiny and various legal challenges have fine-tuned the rarely used process.

    www.cbc.ca

  • Sell power assets: AIG

    THE Queensland Government has again been urged to sell off its power assets as it attempts to get the state's budget under control.

    www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au

  • David Cameron's day of power and danger

    But as successive political memoirs have revealed, this image of imperial power is often a mirage. Stubborn cabinet ministers dig in, as may be the case with Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary.

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Memo tells of politics, power for lottery deal

    As a federal grand jury weighs evidence that key figures in D.C. business and politics manipulated the city's lottery contract because of political considerations, the international gambling firm that won the $38 million-a-year deal in 2008 and again ...

    www.washingtontimes.com

  • The Nanos Number: The PQ's slim victory

    Nik Nanos digs beneath the numbers with CBC News Network's Power & Politics host Evan Solomon to get at the political, economic and social forces that shape our lives.

    www.cbc.ca

  • Russia rebuffs Clinton on Syria, Iran penalties

    Russia on Saturday soundly rejected U.S. calls for increased pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to relinquish power.

    seattletimes.com

  • Review: An uneasy marriage of power and politics

    The nation's first iconic moment with the Clintons came in the 1992 "60 Minutes" interview the couple granted after the Jennifer Flowers scandal broke, throwing Bill Clinton's campaign for president on the ropes.

    www.chron.com

  • Power, Politics and Powerful Information

    Over the last few months, Ecuador has granted asylum to two oppenents of political hegemony. In July, President Rafael Correa accepted a request by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who is seeking refuge from allegations of sexual assault in Sweden.

    www.democraticunderground.com

  • Playboy death new wrinkle in China's power shuffle

    BEIJING - China's hopes for a smooth, once-a-decade political transition have been shaken by a lurid new scandal involving the death of a senior official's son who crashed during what may have been sex games in a speeding Ferrari.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Astronaut Hadfield recalls Neil Armstrong's inspiration

    (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press). "It was huge. It was everything that would absorb the dreams of any nine-year old kid around the world - including this one growing up in Canada," Hadfield said in an interview with CBC News Network's Power and Politics.

    www.cbc.ca

  • Ex-police chief in China political scandal charged with defection, power abuse ...

    FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2008 file photo, then Chonqing city police chief Wang Lijun speaks during a press conference in Chongqing, southwestern China.

    www.greenfieldreporter.com

  • The Problem With Obama's "Smart Power" Overseas

    True, his reliance on "smart power"—a euphemism for giving the Pentagon a stake in all things global—has been a smart move politically at home. It has largely prevented the Republicans from playing the national security card in this election year ...

    www.motherjones.com

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