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The Rundown - January 4


News & views on RFE/RL's broadcast region

Sunday Talk Shows
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The analysis of Shields & Brooks
# "Face the Nation" discusses health care and Yemen
# "Meet the Press" discusses terrorism and national security
# "This Week" discusses the politics of terrorism

Iran
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"Deutsche Welle" is the latest target of Iranian jamming efforts
# Hamid Dabashi on Iran's younger and smarter revolutionaries
# Timothy Geraghty on Iran's hand in international terror
# Gary Sick on Obama's use of leaks to frame his Iran strategy
# The U.S. will take advantage on unrest in Iran in a push for new sanctions

Afghanistan/Pakistan
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The UN mission in Afghanistan is criticizing the rejection of most of Karzai's cabinet
# Tunku Varadarajan thinks the U.S. must focus on Pakistan
# Masha Hamilton on the practice of selling of Afghan women to marriage

Of Interest
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The man killed for trying to attack a Danish cartoonist may have targeted Hillary Clinton
# The U.S. and UK have closed their embassies in Yemen
# Russia has cut oil supplies to Belarus
# Jose Luis Zapatero and Herman Von Rompuy think the Lisbon Treaty makes Europe stronger
# The "Washington Post" editorializes on freedom of speech in Egypt
# E.J. Dionne on how democrats can avoid being routed in the 2010 midterm elections

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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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