NATO Wrapups: How the City Stayed Relatively Calm
Comparing Seattle’s disastrous 1999 WTO riots with this weekend’s relatively peaceful NATO protests: what lessons can be learned about the boundaries between protesters and police?
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Where Was Rahm During NATO Weekend?
Until late yesterday afternoon, when he summed up the success of the NATO summit in a press conference at the Office of Emergency Management, Rahm Emanuel was mostly missing from headlines. Instead, it was his Ravenswood house in the spotlight—after demonstrators protested outside the apparently unoccupied residence on Saturday, and news spread of a plot to firebomb it with a Molotov cocktail…
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Chicago NATO Summit: Climbing Down the Mountain of Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The summit ends with a plan to bring the U.S. and its NATO allies out of Afghanistan for the good of both countries, and for what Afghanistan needs to do to make that happen. But Pakistan and its supply routes present a challenge not only to the logistics of withdrawal, but the long-term stability of the region.
NATO Summit, Domestic Politics Edition: Barack Obama on Cory Booker, Bain Capital, and Mitt Romney
The president fields a question on the Newark mayor and campaign surrogate’s suggestion that attacks on private equity are “nauseating”: “when you’re President, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits.”
Chicago NATO Protests: Why They're Protesting
Answering the question that’s on the mind of Chicago commuters and office workers: What do all these people in the streets want, and when do they want it?
Chicago NATO Summit: No Plan to Intervene In Syria, On Pace for Afghan Funding
The UN secretary general discusses buying unarmed drones for Smart Defense, NATO’s stance on Syria, the new European missile defense system, and funding the Afghan security forces in a time of austerity.
Chicago NATO Summit: Dispatches from McCormick Place
AndersFogh Rasmussen talks “security in the age of austerity” and his confidence that Francois Hollande’s desire to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan won’t be a problem; Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai talk Afghanistan 2014-2024.
[Photos] NATO Protests Day Two: What an Eight-Hour March Looks Like
A rally for the “NATO 3” turns into an impromptu march, leading protesters and police on a day-long, miles-long journey through the Loop, South Loop, and West Loop, resulting in six arrests and a protester being struck by a CPD van.
Chicago NATO Protests: The Tearing Down of the NATO Banner, and an Arrestee on WTTW
Video shows how the NATO banner on Michigan was torn down as the protest march briefly made it up Michigan Avenue; a protester talks to Chicago Tonight about detention and the police