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The Rundown - December 14


News & views on RFE/RL's broadcast region

Sunday Talk Shows
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The analysis of Shields & Brooks
# Fareed Zakaria has Paul Krugman and Bjorn Lomborg
# "Meet the Press" discusses the U.S. economy
# George Stephanopolous interviews Larry Summers

Afghanistan
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The "New York Times" editorializes on Europe's role in Afghanistan
# Nick Horne doesn't like the idea of a high representative in Afghanistan
# Anna Nemtsova & Owen Matthews on avoiding the fate of the Soviet Union

Iran
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Dana Goldstein on the role of women in Iranian opposition
# Michael Slackman on defiling pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
# "The Guardian reports as well
# Josh Rogin on the State Dept. memo to the Senate on sanctions

Russia
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Samantha Shields reports on Russian influence in Abkhazia
# "The Guardian" editorializes on Russia-NATO relations
# Jamison Firestone on the case of Sergei Magnitsky

Iraq
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The "New York Times" reports on Iraq's oil field auctions
# Russia's LUKOil acquired rights to one of the largest oil fields

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
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Jackson Diehl on Obama's foreign policy
# Leslie Gelb praises Obama's Nobel speech
# Laura Rozen & Ben Smith grade Obama's national security team
# Der Spiegel interviews Paul Volcker
# Con Coughlin on U.S.-UK relations
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
# Embassy Row from the "Washington Times"

-- Zach Peterson

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Written by RFE/RL editors and correspondents, Transmission serves up news, comment, and the odd silly dictator story. While our primary concern is with foreign policy, Transmission is also a place for the ideas -- some serious, some irreverent -- that bubble up from our bureaus. The name recognizes RFE/RL's role as a surrogate broadcaster to places without free media. You can write us at transmission+rferl.org

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