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• The Obama team: How to screw things up royally

  
  The Best Defense — Authority: 637
  So U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (nee General) Eikenberry doesnt want to give Afghan President Karzai a blank check? No one does. But anyone payingattention knows that Eikenberry and Karzai have been like oil and water sinceEikenberry was the top American general in Afghanistan. I think it was a badmove to put him ...
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• Military Regime Hosts a Party for John Bolton

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Mark Leon Goldberg reports that John Bolton, the Bush administration’s former ambassador to the United Nations, has a new book out. It’s called ConUNdrum — har har — and apparently continues Bolton’s quest to shave several more floors from the U.N.’s Turtle Bay offices . But what’s more interesting, ...
  8 hours ago

• “U.S. Public Diplomacy toward Iran: Structures, Actors, and Policy Communities” By Foad Izadi

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 148
  This dissertation is an in-depth study of the structures, actors, and policy communities associated with U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Since 2006, the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million for its Iran-related public diplomacy via State Department democracy promotion programs, National Endowment for ...
  13 hours ago

• Will Obama find time to shoot hoops in Tokyo?

  
  Raw Japan — Authority: 490
  U.S. President Barack Obama will have his work cut out during his 24-hour stay in Japan from Friday as he and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama try to soothe concerns that the decades-old alliance is fraying as the two countries adapt to China’s rise .  Other U.S. presidents have also had rough agendas in Tokyo, ...
  14 hours ago

• Taliban / Sipah-e-Sahaba kill Iran consulate official in Peshawar

  
  Let us build Pakistan — Authority: 484
  Group responsible : The jihadi and sectarian alliance between Sipah-e-Sahaba and Taliban (who usually operate under various banners such as Jundollah, Lashkar-e-Jhangavi etc). Motives: To damage the inter-sectarian harmony in Pakistan To terrorize the Shia Muslim minority in Pakistan To terrorize Pakistani ...
  18 hours ago

• If War Breaks Out, Venezuela’s ‘Fifth Column’ Will Have to Be Confronted: El Universal, Venezuela

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 730
  Hold on to your hats! As if there wasn’t enough conflict occurring at the present time, the war of words between Colombia and Venezuela seems to be escalating – along with the paranoia. And just as Washington has won permission to open seven military bases in Colombia. This somewhat hair-raising article from ...
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• First, You Need to Stop the Leaks

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 481
  This is disgraceful. Can’t the Obama Administration do anything without leaks? The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government demonstrates that it is ...
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• Why is Richard Holbrooke going to Russia?

  
  The Cable — Authority: 699
  Richard Holbrooke , the Obama administrations special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is headed to Russia soon, just as the National Security Council is conducting "emergency measures" to deal with problems surrounding a new U.S.-Russian agreement to transit lethal materials through Russian space to supply U.S. ...
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• Camille Paglia’s Schizophrenic Thought Salad on Salon

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 625
  I’d cackle at this column on Salon.com if it weren’t so seriously pathetic. Ms. Paglia begins… Pelosi’s victory for women Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess, but her gritty maneuvering shows her mettle…. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scored a giant gain for feminism last weekend. In ...
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• Take Down This Wall

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  With the twentieth anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall yesterday, I have been reflecting a lot on divides.  I was lucky enough to spend a year working in Germany, from August 1988 to May 1989, in Cologne for the year between college and law school.  And, although it killed me not to get back on a ...
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• Lebanon Forms Government of National Unity

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Lebanon has formed a new government of “national accord”, which will include majority leader and prime minister designate Saad Hariri and also representatives of Hezbollah, the militia group seen as a terrorist threat by Israel, and which was the target of an Israeli bombing campaign in 2006. The UN Security ...
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• Routine Abuse of Domestic Workers Alleged in Lebanon

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  This report alleges widespread routine abuse of foreign-born domestic workers in Lebanon. Domestic workers are excluded from Lebanese labor regulations and does not monitor treatment in the home. It is reportedly common for employers of foreign domestic workers to illegally seize their passports upon arrival and ...
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• Saudi Blockades Yemen’s Coast

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 504
  What happened to Mr. Sovereignty, the President Saleh? The Saudis are shelling the North Yemen and apparently have take up residence in Yemen’s territorial waters. I guess as long as they are on his side, Saleh will let the Saudi forces fight his war and go where ever they want to go. Some think the rebels may ...
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• US Wimps Out on Honduras, Tries to Fix Problem They Created

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 450
  So, the cut a deal between the President of Honduras, and the leaders of the coup that ousted him. Its a fairly simple deal, a power sharing arrangement, but then the coup leaders decide that they cant hold a vote to approve this until after the elections , meaning that they will be in complete control of the ...
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• CUSTOMER DIPLOMACY

  
  Hal Alpiar's Blog — Authority: 125
  Blow the sale or                                                  hold your tongue?                                                                                          ...
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• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Aid in War-torn Congo: Video Report

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  This video is a report from Doctors without Borders (MSF) on their ongoing efforts to deliver much-needed medical aid to civilian populations across the war-torn Democratic Republican of Congo. MSF got into delivering aid to the DR Congo after the ethnic clashes in Rwanda that turned into the brutal Rwandan genocide. ...
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• MSF Says DR Congo Military Killed Civilians at Vaccination Clinics

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as far as to allege it was “used” as a means of luring large numbers of civilians to 7 different locations where Congolese ...
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• A Disappointing Year With Obama

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  By William Pfaff Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 10, 2009 Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems ...
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• Deal or No Deal Talks Must Continue

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 577
  The rigmarole surrounding the supposed failure of negotiations with Iran is causing the media and government to lose sight of what is really important: talking with Iran. Talking is, in and of itself, a confidence building measure. It allows for the growth of familiarity between the parties, and, therefore, greater ...
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• Irans Moves Reveal Leadership Rift

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 590
  One month after the U.S. launched a great diplomatic experiment by talking directly with Iran, the pressure of the effort is opening up some stress fractures. Some small fractures are showing up in the wall of solidarity the U.S. and its partners have tried to show in confronting Iran over its nuclear program -- ...
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