Foreign Policy

Foreign policy is a phrase used to reference a nation’s political position and guidelines in engaging other sovereign nations throughout the world. In the United States foreign policy is the primary concern for the Secretary of State, who is charged with the responsibility of upholding the nation’s views and interests.

Foreign policy more specifically refers to a political mode of diplomatic engagement. For allies and neutral nations, trade agreements may be discussed and enacted. For hostile or potentially hostile nations, sanctions and embargos may result.

The ultimate goal of any foreign policy must be the preservation of peace and financial markets and the maintenance of international relations through diplomacy.

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• The world’s superbower*

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 137
  The President raised lots of eyebrows earlier this year when he bowed deeply and unexpectedly  to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G20 London economic gathering before kissing his hand. I wrote about the matter at the time. While the legacy media generally ignored the spectacle, conservatives had some fun at ...
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• The Dollar in Distress

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 475
  The Curious Capitalist : The U.S.: export juggernaut (if you dont count oil and China) Heres the kind of interesting stuff you can learn reading this mornings monthly foreign trade report from the Census Bureau: Overall U.S. trade deficit for September: $36.5 billion Trade deficit in petroleum products: $20.5 ...
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• Dahr Jamail on Fort Hood, Iraq and Afghanistan, and soldiers’ resistance

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 556
  Dandelion Saladby Maverick MediaDahr Jamail Interview – Nov. 9, 2009 – Ventura, CA on VimeoNov. 9, 2009 – Ventura, CAInterview with Dahr Jamail, award-winning, independent journalist and author of “Beyond The Green Zone” and his most recent book “The Will To Resist” and website “Mideast Dispatches”. ...
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• Obama Urges Release Of Burma Human Rights Leader

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Barack Obama has decided to attempt a new approach in dealing with leaders of Myanmar. Instead of the Bush tough talking and refusing to meet with anyone from the dictatorship of this unfortunate nation, the president reached out to Burma Prime Minister General Thein Sein while attending the Association of Southeast ...
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• Gates Blocks Release Of Detainee Abuse Photos

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates imposed a ban on the release of any photos that depict abusive treatment of detainees who were under the supervision of American military personnel. According to Gates James Jaffer, of the American Civili Liberties Union, responded by noting the photos were important pieces of ...
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• Why is this man bowing?

  
  Buyer Behaviour — Authority: 429
  Obamas breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same plane as other regimes based on tribal privilege and royal bloodlines. He gives ...
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• HEADLINES IN THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments. UK, The Independent: “Vatican Hosts Aliens” I didn’t know they were hosting Jews and Muslims. Australia, Brisbane Times: “Plan B Won’t Work” These days I would even take Plan Z if it led to jobs. ...
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• On PTSD, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq and Empire – Dahr Jamail

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 590
  An excellent and wide-ranging interview with Dahr Jamail on US foreign policy, interviewed by Cindy Piester. (The only quibble would be that claim that the occupation of Iraq is all about oil and the absence of the mention of the israel Lobby as a critical factor in the invasion.) Run-time 58 minutes. For feedreaders, ...
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• Race Card Played on Obama Bow, with Some BDS Thrown In For Free

  
  Legal Insurrection — Authority: 706
  The Bow controversy will not stop. Jake Tapper at his blog has some comments by an expert on Japanese cultural norms arguing that Obamas close inspection of the Emperors shoes was neither protocol nor culturally appropriate: "The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked ...
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• Extremist Islamic Jihad HighTech Distance Learning: A Formidable Battleground

  
  POLITICAL POLICY — Authority: 125
  Distance learning focuses on technologies and instructional systems designed to deliver education to students who are not physically on site. Teachers and students may communicate at times of their own choosing by exchanging printed or electronic media on-line in real time through e-mails, internet audio and video ...
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• Will Copenhagen Say “Skoal!” to Obama, If He Doesn’t Bring Home an Agreement?

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 556
  For those of you either hoping or fearing that the President would walk away from the Copenhagen summit with a real global warming agreement in his green little hands just remember this is Barack... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• President Obama and Thai Prime Minister Vejjajiva Speak After ASEAN-10 Meeting

  
  White House.gov Photo Gallery Feed — Authority: 803
  
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• An American political tradition in the People’s Republic of China

  
  White House.gov Blog Feed: WhiteHouse.gov Blog — Authority: 794
  Ed. Note: The town hall begins in three and a half hours at 11:45pm EST.  Be sure to tune in at www.whitehouse.gov/live . The town hall meeting is at the core of grassroots American democracy.  It is a tradition that brings together members of a community -- both leaders and ordinary citizens -- to discuss and ...
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• One of These Things is Not Like the Others

  
  RedState — Authority: 814
  Over 90,000 Americans were killed in the Pacific during World War II defending the United States and the world from Japanese aggression.  Thank God many of the survivors passed on before they had to witness the President of the United States bowing low to the Emperor of Japan. To those veterans of the Pacific still ...
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• Sunday Book Review: Hawk and Dove

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 690
  Nicholas Thompsons The Hawk and the Dove is an exceptionally readable dual biography of George Kennan and Paul Nitze. George Kennan is, to some, rather an odd dove; he helped formulate the vision of containment that led to NSC-68 and militarized confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. ...
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• Obama Arrives In Shanghai China Youtube

  
  Obama-Mamas.com — Authority: 477
  President Barack Obama arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on the first leg of his trip to China. He is the first US president to visit China within the first year of taking office. After meeting with Shanghai leaders, Obama will meet with 300 local youth in the afternoon which will include nearly an hour ...
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• Dispatches, Britain and Israel

  
  I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back — Authority: 127
  Tune in to Channel 4 at 8pm this evening, for Peter Obornes investigation of the pro-Israel lobby in the UK.  As unpleasant as some of Israels neighbours and some of her opponents are, the who, what, why and where of this documentary is potentially fascinating.  More on Inside Britains Israel Lobby here. 
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• Chinese T-Shirt Entrepreneurs "ObamaMao"

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 149
  He sold these until authorities made him stop. Maybe wingnuts here would buy them.
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• The Iran Hostage Crisis – 30 Years After

  
  Stopping to smell the roses — Authority: 130
  For 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, 53 Americans were held hostage by militant Iranian students in the U.S. Embassy in Teheran that would soon be part of the American vernacular as the Iran Hostage Crisis. It wasn’t America’s first major policy blunder in the Middle East that allowed the ...
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