International Politics

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Reason February 2005	Soundbite: Torture and Defeat An interview with Seymour Hersh on his new book, Chain of Command in which Hersh draws on his extensive contacts in the intelligence community to paint a disturbing picture of a war managed both immorally and ineptly.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Kyoto Ratified After a decade of negotiations, the Kyoto global climate change treaty is set to go into effect Feb. 16, but may remain relatively ineffectual on a global scale.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005	Uniting Business to Fight Fakes Vivendi's Jean-Rene Fourtou, former International Chamber of Commerce head, talks about a new coordinated counteroffensive against counterfeiting.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005	New Balance: The Cost of Copies The sneaker producer has been fighting to stop a former supplier in China from making counterfeit shoes for domestic sales and export to Europe, Japan, and Australia.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Tim Shorrock	U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005	A Chilly Reception For Guest Workers in South Korea Will Korea relax limits on the foreign labor it so desperately needs?
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Frederik Balfour	Fakes! The global counterfeit business is out of control, targeting everything from computer chips to life-saving medicines. Pick any product from any well-known brand, and chances are there's a counterfeit version of it out there. It's so bad that even China may need to crack down.
Smithsonian February 2005 Paul Raffaele	Uganda: The Horror In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed: A dispatch from the world's 'largest neglected humanitarian emergency'.
Smithsonian February 2005 Pamela Constable	Assignment Afghanistan From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation's struggle to be reborn.
Smithsonian February 2005 Carey Winfrey	Editor's Note - Trouble Spots Two writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan.
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