Fareed notices signs of a fascinating global pattern emerging. Does the whole world seem to be shifting in one direction politically?

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What's Shaking Up the World's Largest City? 9,000 suspects. 4,800 arrests. $200,000,000 in assets seized. ¼ of the city's police force devoted to the crackdown. What in the world is happening in Chongqing, China?

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The death of nine American soldiers in July 2008 during an attack by the Taliban on their outpost in the remote village of Wanat in Eastern Afghanistan is getting another look by the U.S. military. The battle has been described as the "Blackhawk Down" of the Afghan war and is seen by many as a microcosm of the problems the coalition forces are facing there.
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Start-up Nation: The story of Israel's Economic Miracle by
Dan Senor



The book addresses the question of how Israel -- a nation of just 7 million people, which has been at war almost constantly since its creation -- became the world's capital of starts ups. Israel produces more of them than Japan, China or India, and in the book, Senor tells fascinating stories of innovative ideas and huge gambles that have paid off for Israeli entrepreneurs.

Matthew Hoh's resignation letter in protest of the war in Afghanistan has put him in the media spotlight. In his letter he states that he has lost confidence in the current strategy, not "how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end."

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Matthew Hoh, the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, gives Fareed one of his first interviews since resigning. Plus, we have a superb discussion on the economy with two great minds -- Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and Robert Schiller, the economist who accurately predicted the financial crisis and the stock market collapse of 2000.

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A star-studded panel of historians discusses Obama's first year in office and the political climate in America. Plus, as Hamid Karzai gets another term as President of Afghanistan, we get the view from across the border: Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf on Karzai, corruption, and the prospects for peace in Afghanistan.

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In his new book The Post-American World, journalist and author Fareed Zakaria argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time.

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