All Posts Tagged With: "Foreign Policy"

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Revisited

A historian looks at how the President’s control of foreign policy has only increased from the days of Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. There is a long look at the Kennedy Administration which seems pivotal in any understanding of US foreign policy.

2Jan2011 | nemski | Comments Off | Continued
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Neoconservatives rail against Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki

Hah, just kidding. Neocons don’t even know where Eritrea is.
Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for “three or four decades” or longer because they “polarize society.” All forms of media are controlled by the government. At least 10 local journalists remain in prison since their arrests in 2001.
(Link: Parade)
Remember, the Neocon [...]

19Nov2009 | xstryker | 4 comments | Continued
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Time To Lift The Cuban Embargo

It’s been 47 years since the embargo on Cuban goods was put in place by the United States and its been 18 years in a row that the United Nations General Assembly has called for the end of the US embargo. It seem back in April of this year that President Obama was moving in [...]

29Oct2009 | nemski | 8 comments | Continued
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Not So Suddenly Sudan

After months of hard work and analysis, the Obama Administration recently unveiled its Sudan strategy. According to the US State Department, the Sudan strategy will focus on three areas:

A definitive end to conflict, gross human rights abuses, and genocide in Darfur.
Implementation of the North-South CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement) that results in a peaceful post-2011 Sudan, [...]

21Oct2009 | nemski | 4 comments | Continued
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Joe Biden Smacks Down Lieberman AND McCain

When he’s good, he’s good.
Read his WSJ editorial (published today) response to Joe Lieberman’s very public bedwetting from Wednesday. Biden starts:
Sen. Lieberman is right: 9/11 was a pivotal moment. History will judge Mr. Bush’s reaction less for the mistakes he made than for the opportunities he squandered.
And here is the gist of what the [...]

23May2008 | cassandra_m | 26 comments | Continued

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