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• Iraqi Government Cracks a Window onto Its Workings, via YouTube

  
  techPresident — Authority: 657
  Weve been covering in some detail the U.S. State Departments efforts to foster new conversations and smooth some of lifes more difficult transactions using technology, from promoting digital violence tracking in Mexico to encouraging social networking in Pakistan to setting up mobile banking in Afghanistan. Some of ...
  10 hours ago

• Hillary 2012: A Vice Presidential Odyssey [Head Of State]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  The latest rumor coming out of Washington is that Hillary Clinton is in the running to take the VP slot in 2012, displacing Joe Biden and setting her up for another Presidential run in 2016. While its being billed as a "reward" for her work at the State Department , one wonders if it isnt because moving ...
  11 hours ago

• Video- David Letterman: State Dinner Top Ten

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  
  12 hours ago

• Smith-Mundt Symposium: A Discourse to Shape Americas Discourse

  
  MountainRunner — Authority: 122
  Below is the report on the Smith-Mundt Symposium of January 13, 2009. Subtitled “A Discourse to Shape America’s Discourse”, it was a frank and open discussion across a diverse group of stakeholders, practitioners, and observers from Congress, the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, and outside ...
  20 hours ago

• Obama Administration Won’t Sign Land Mine Ban

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  The administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday.
  21 hours ago

• Video- President Obama Toasts Prime Minister Singh of India

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  What. A. Dress.
  22 hours ago

• Video- First Lady Michelle Obama Discusses State and Official Visits

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  Some more background on the food and settings here.
  1 day ago

• Obamas Afghanistan decision: Tune in next week

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 817
  President Obama held his ninth meeting Monday night in the situation room with his War Council, a two-hour session to review the options in Afghanistan. This time, the assembled foreign-policy and military experts even included the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry , an outspoken critic of the Hamid ...
  1 day ago

• Welcome ceremony for Manmohan Singh shifted indoors due to rain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): The White House welcome ceremony for Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur has been shifted indoors due to continuous rains here. The gun salute has also been cancelled.The welcome ceremony has been shifted from the South Lawn to the East Room inside the White House. ...
  1 day ago

• Hunter accused of threatening Michigan DNR officers

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  ROSCOMMON - A member of a Roscommon County hunting club is accused of threatening state Department of Natural Resources investigators posing as hunters.
  1 day ago

• Obama Goes to the Mattresses

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  The ugliness surrounding the pushing out of White House Counsel Gregory Craig was months in the making, but culminated on the day on which the White House announced that the Justice Department would be prosecuting Guantanamo prisoners on U.S. soil, the very project Craig was supposedly brought into the administration ...
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• Love of the Land: Absurd US position on Jerusalem isn’t constructive

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Absurd US position on Jerusalem isn’t constructive FresnoZionism.org 21 November 09 Here’s a perfect example of the misleading use of the settlement issue, from a Palestinian source. Ma’an News tells us that, According to the [Israel channel 10] report, the US administration ...
  2 days ago

• Smith-Mundt Act: Facts, Myths and Recommendations

  
  MountainRunner — Authority: 122
  The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 is the authorizing legislation for Americas public diplomacy and strategic communication. This three-page information sheet addresses confusion surrounding the Act and makes recommendations that are fundamental to any improvement to US public diplomacy and strategic communication. It is ...
  2 days ago

• Clinton Suggests Iraq Election Date ‘Might Slip’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  Just over the wires : Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding out the possibility that Iraq’s national election could be delayed beyond January because of a dispute over the allocation of seats in parliament. Clinton told reporters at the State Department Monday that U.S. officials are involved in ...
  2 days ago

• Persona non grata at immigration? Can you get off the list

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 144
  Even if youre not a terrorist or anything akin to one, you too can spend extra time getting through customs. Ask as many times as you want, youll never be told what you might have done. Youre guilty until proven innocent.
  2 days ago

• Espionage Conspiracy: Myers Couple Pleads Guilty

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 482
  Image by Kaptain Kobold via FlickrThe Department of Justice announced on November 20 that a former State Department Official and his wife have pleaded guilty in a 30-year espionage conspiracy: A former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their roles in a ...
  2 days ago

• Security concerns regarding Pakistan to be expressed at US-India meet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, Nov.23 (ANI): The US can expect some plain speaking from the Indian delegation regarding Pakistan and the blanket cheque that the super power seems to be giving India’s South Asian neighbour. Sources said that India will express its concerns regarding the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in view ...
  3 days ago

• US couple plead guilty to spying for Cuba over 30 years

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years have pleaded guilty, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said. Walter Myers, 72, a former State Department official with top-secret security clearance, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and ...
  3 days ago

• Robert Greenwald praiases “The Nation” magaziner on “We’re Funding The Taliban” story

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  h/t Down with Tyranny and YouTube You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
  4 days ago

• Israel Matzav: Brazil about to follow Venezuela and State Department has nothing to say?

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Brazil about to follow Venezuela and State Department has nothing to say? This is from a State Department briefing : QUESTION : Ahmadinejad is going to be visiting Brazil in a couple of days. Is the fact that a friendly government like that welcoming Ahmadinejad – does that tend to dilute ...
  4 days ago

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