{"id":2940,"date":"2009-12-31T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:24:28","slug":"the-top-ten-stories-you-might-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2940\/the-top-ten-stories-you-might-have-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Ten Stories You Might Have Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> have compiled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/30\/the_top_10_stories_you_missed_in_2009 \" target=\"_blank\">list of the top ten underreported stories<\/a> from 2009 that could have a major impact on 2010.  They are:<\/p>\n<p>1.\tThe Opening of the Northwest Passage<\/p>\n<p>2.\tGrowing Hostilities between Iraq\u2019s Arab and Kurdish Populations<\/p>\n<p>3.\tAn Intensifying Border Dispute between India and China<\/p>\n<p>4.\tUncle Sam Fueling another Housing Bubble<\/p>\n<p>5.\tPentagon Edges State Department as Primary Nation Builder<\/p>\n<p>6.\tBrazil Helping China Expand Its Naval Capabilities<\/p>\n<p>7.\tSecurity Breaches in U.S. Passport Procedures<\/p>\n<p>8.\tChechen-Related Assassinations<\/p>\n<p>9.\tAmerican Military Involvement in Uganda\u2019s Civil War<\/p>\n<p>10.\tCIA Proposes Its Own ROTC-Style Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Foreign Policy have compiled a list of the top ten underreported stories from 2009 that could have a major impact on 2010. They are: 1. The Opening of the Northwest Passage 2. Growing Hostilities between Iraq\u2019s Arab and Kurdish Populations 3. An Intensifying Border Dispute between India and China 4. Uncle Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}