Tag: Foreign Policy
A Look Back on the Chen Guangcheng Crisis
There are a couple of important lessons regarding the Chen Guangcheng crisis of last week. The first is an understanding of the dissident’s problems and the second is a foreign policy lesson which Mitt Romney failed.
The Saga of Political Dissidents
We haven’t written at all about the escape of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, his rescue, his return and, now, change of heart, but I have a simple question for you all. If the roles were reversed, would the US goverment stand for China helping/interfering with US political dissident Bradley Manning?
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.
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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