- World markets have again slumped as the specter of Greek default returns and fears that default would tip a shaky global economy back into a recession. Meanwhile, NPR reports on China's efforts to lower their yearly GDP growth and engineer a soft landing.
- In Lybia, the residents of Sirte are fleeing the city after the NTC gave a 48 hour suspension in fighting, before they restart their offensive to take Qaddafi's hometown.
- In Bahrain, where a popular uprising was swiftly and violently put down with help from Saudi Arabia, the fallout continues as thirty six people have been given sentences between 15 and 25 years.
- In Istanbul, some Syrian dissidents announced the creation of a formal opposition council to coordinate activities against the Syrian government.
- U.S.-Pakistan relations, where do we go from here? And is that someplace we haven't been before?
Domestic
- There are reports that changes to the tax code may be a bridge too far for the deficit supercommittee, while there are reports that Congress is looking at undoing the trigger they put in place to make the supercommittee's work meaningful.
- File under obvious: Congressional budget dithering hurts the economy.
- The professional Tea Party raises stacks of cash, while local chapters struggle, potentially turning the Tea Party into that which they despise.
- A new Supreme Court session opens and divisive issues fill the docket.
- I'm no Rick Perry fan, but I have an issue when more column inches is spent covering the name of his family's hunting camp instead of his tacit support to send U.S. Marines into Mexico to stop drug trafficking.
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