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• The foreign policy Obama promised

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 634
  Ezra Klein makes an interesting point regarding the health care plan that will likely emerge from Congress:  that it pretty much matches what Obama the candidate promised in his health care plan (hat tip:   Sullivan ).   I bring this up because when you think about Barack Obamas foreign policy, you come to a ...
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• Lebanon and Syria: Hariri Meets With Assad

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri visited Syria this weekend in an attempt, in his words, to “open new horizons between the two countries.” In turn,  President Assad insisted he is “very attached to sincere relations based on common understanding.” In response, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...
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• Yemen: U.S. Assisted Raids on al-Qaeda

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  The Washington Post reports that the U.S. “provided intelligence and other assistance to Yemeni forces  in attacks Thursday against suspected al-Qaeda targets.”  According to The New York Times , President Obama approved the request for support from the Yemeni government for the raids which killed at ...
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• Copenhagens failure belongs to Obama | Naomi Klein

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The American president has been uniquely placed to lead the world on climate change and squandered every opportunity Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyones fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all ...
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• Iran: Ayatollah Montazeri Funeral Today

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  Over the weekend, one of Iran’s most respected religious scholars and outspoken critics of the regime, Grand Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Montazeri , died in his sleep. As Time Magazine reports, Montazeri “was known as Iran’s defiant cleric , first in challenging the autocratic rule of the Shah, and then later ...
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• Afghan: Cabinet Criticism

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  The Christian Science Monitor reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is defending his cabinet choices from criticism that appointees will do little to solve the country’s problems.  Several of the new ministers have been accused of “wrongdoing, poor performance, and corrupt practices.”  Despite these ...
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• Iraq: Tensions Ease with Iran

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  Iranian troops have reportedly begun to withdraw from a disputed oil well in Iraqi territory that Iran occupied last week (see our post ).  However, according to Iraqi officials, the Iranians have only withdrawn 50 meters and refuse to return to the other side of the border.  Juan Cole believes the standoff ...
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• The Israel Lobby and the Prospects for Middle East Peace

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 559
  Stephen M. Walt speaks at an event at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont, at an even UVM Departments of Political Science, Geography, History, and Middle East Studies and Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel.
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• Putting the Christian back in Realism: A response to Steve Walt

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 615
  
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• Top Ten Wins #2: U.S. Administration Acts Swiftly on Women’s Health and Rights

  
  Akimbo — Authority: 558
  Each year IWHC issues a publication highlighting the “Top Ten Wins for Women’s Health and Rights” for that year. This week on Akimbo, we’ll be unveiling our latest picks for the top ten wins for women’s health and rights of 2009. Click here to view the list from last year. Three early actions by the ...
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• What Happened in Copenhagen?

  
  Stephen M. Walt — Authority: 686
  
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• Is Tony Blair Being Mistreated?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Former prime minister Tony Blair believes he is being treated unfairly by the British media whom he describes as “feral beasts of the media” because of non-ceasing criticism of his actions as leader of the nation during the Iraq war. According to Blair, “it’s not true nobody likes me,” and claims “there ...
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• Wind Down, Wind UP!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  it is relatively easy for political leaders in Washington D.C. to utter remarks about winding down military operations in Iraq while at the same time dispatching 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. There is need to identify which pieces of equipment go where, will the same equipment which has worked in Iraq also be ...
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• HEADLINES FROM THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments. Denmark, Copenhagen Post: “Study Shows Bacteria Elderly Hospital Deaths” I assume they are young bacteria out to get even with their elders. UK, The Independent: “Nursery Worker Jailed Indefinitely” ...
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• POMED Notes: “Saudi Arabia: The New Dynamics”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  The Middle East Institute hosted a lecture by Thomas Lippman entitled “Saudi Arabia: The New Dynamics.” Lippman, who has been traveling to Saudi Arabia for over thirty years, recently returned from a month-long trip to the desert kingdom. While Lippman admitted there have been some “really bad books” written ...
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• This weekend on EA – 19/20 December

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 602
  Iran: Sunday’s news has been dominated by the sudden death of 87 year old Grand Ayatollah Montazeri and how the Regime’s trying to deal with the challenges posed by his death – first by belittling his memory;  then by criticising the cleric. All the latest news is, as always, in our live  weblog .  ...
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• Nobel Peace Prize (2009): President Barack Obama’s Speech Exemplified the Theory of “Might is Right”

  
  A DC Observer — Authority: 112
  I have read the President Barack Obama’s Nobel Lecture that he gave upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Lecture, the President attempted to argue that warcraft can lead to peace. As I have argued before , war and peace are mutually exclusive. Further examination of the speech indicates that the President ...
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• Muslim sub-humans.

  
  Argue With Everyone Political Forums — Authority: 165
  I wonder if they will tattoo numbers on their arms? Yet snivelling American squeal like stuck pigs and make vague threats about nuclear retaliation when someone takes a fucking photo of their captured military personnel.
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• Whats been the most important foreign policy decision of the Obama administrations first year?

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 634
  I see that Steve Walt couldnt resist critiquing Obamas Nobel Peace Prize speech .  At the end of his post, he argues that Obama should be judged by his actions and not his words: I still think we should pay less attention to what he said and focus on what he and his advisors do. In his first year in office, ...
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• Obama’s Nobel Speech Comes Up Short

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 482
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