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Zachary Fillingham - Sep 02, 10
September 2nd, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - Ten election workers have been killed by a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan on the eve of a visit by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Zachary Fillingham - Sep 01, 10
September 1st, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - The killing of four Israeli settlers near Hebron on the eve of a new round of peace talks in Washington has shifted the likeliness of forward progress in the peace process from ‘not likely’ to ‘not going to happen.’
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 31, 10
August 31, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - Just hours before an official end to US combat operations in Iraq, President Nouri Maliki used a major speech to declare that Iraq is now independent and its security forces are up to the task of keeping order.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 25, 10
August 25th, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - Grim figures out of the housing market in the United States emerged yesterday. According to the National Association of Realtors, sales of existing homes dropped 27.2 percent in July to reach their lowest level in ten years.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 24, 10
August 24th, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor) - Al-Shabab’s latest attack displays a level of planning and execution that doesn’t bode well for the AU-backed transitional government in Mogadishu.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 20, 10
August 19th, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - An explosion in China’s restive Xinjiang province has once again raised fears of a repeat of last July’s violent riots.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 19, 10
August 19th, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - The last US combat brigade has crossed over from Iraq into Kuwait, but many questions still remain over the role of troops left behind and the stability of the Iraqi government going forward.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 18, 10
August 18th (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - The US Department of Defense has submitted its annual report on Chinese military power to Congress. While the report proved enough to elicit a fiery response from the Chinese government, it can be taken as evidence that the Pentagon wants to play down the ‘China threat’ for the time being.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 17, 10
August 16th (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - Japan received two pieces of bad news this month: its quarterly GDP grew at the tepid rate of 0.1 percent, and it has been overtaken by China as the second largest economy in the world.
Zachary Fillingham - Aug 13, 10
August 13th (Geopoliticalmonitor) - A weak euro has allowed Germany to post its highest quarterly growth since unification.
