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• in Politics
  Egypt May Lose U.S. Funding After Election
  If Egypt's new leaders follow through with their campaign rhetoric, then Egypt's foreign aid will be cut.
  by stephengfm / on Dec 14, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  50% Cut in Foreign Aid Pays for Double Gas Mileage
  The only corporations to object to it thus far are: Daimler AG, and Volkswagen AG.
  by stephengfm / on Nov 17, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “foreign aid”

 

• Bolivia Protects Itself By Kicking Out USAID

  
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  (The image above of U.S. imperialism is from the website Feral Scholar .) Bolivias president, Evo Morales, is doing something that will probably shock most Americans. He is kicking a U.S. government agency (USAID) out of that country . Morales claims the agency is trying to undermine his government. He called the ...
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• Wall Street Journal Publishes Food for Peace Retort

  
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  Responding to my piece last week – in tomorrow’s Letters to the Editor in the Wall Street Journal - Food for Peace is an international aid program that has been successful domestically and abroad since its inception in 1954 (“ How ‘Food for Peace’ Hurts Foreign Farmers”  by James Bovard, op-ed, April ...
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• Sen. Menendez Proposes “Syrian Stabilization Act”

  
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  Photo Credit: George Ourfalian/Reuters Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced legislation that would significantly increase the U.S.’s involvement in the Syrian conflict. The Syria Stabilization Act of 2013 has five components: the authority to provide weapons, training, and non-lethal supplies to armed ...
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• The limits of American power, a historical perspective

  
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  By Christopher Nichols Just when, where, why, and how should American power be used? Current assumptions about the near omnipresence—though far from omnipotence—of US power, its influence and its reach are now shaky. Yet these same assumptions coexist alongside widely shared views that such power could and ...
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• The White House Disinformation Campaign On Libya

  
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  This is worse than Watergate. “What did the President know and when did he know it?”, after all, this time people died! An Incriminating Timeline : New evidence shows there were security threats in Benghazi, Libya, in the months prior to the deadly September 11, 2012, attack that killed U.S. Ambassador ...
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• Benghazi Whistleblower Says Obama and Clinton “Deliberately” Left Americans To Die

  
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  Our Nations best left to die by these two radical ideologues, all to provide cover for their traitorous acts and protect there political careers. Meanwhile American continues with it’s slow death as the global jihad is run from the oval office. Retired Navy SEAL Billy Allmon is coming forward with a scorching ...
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• Dutch Disease

  
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  The term “Dutch disease” originates from a crisis in the Netherlands in the 1960s that resulted from discoveries of vast natural gas deposits in the North Sea. The new found wealth caused the Dutch guilder to rise, making exports of all non-oil products less competitive on the world market.Today the term is used ...
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• Senior business leaders call on Canberra to keep its promises on foreign aid.. (audio)

  
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  Fiona Ellis-Jones heard why, from Macquarie Group chairman Simon McKeown
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• Myanmars Educators Reach Out to the World

  
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  As Myanmar embarks on improving its higher education system, the possibility of assistance from foreign universities and scholars has become a central focus.        
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• Queen’s speech 2013: The 0.7% worry, no fuss

  
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  An extremely short blog post. Based on a…tweet! Ivan Lewis ‏@IvanLewis_MP Leaving 0.7 bill out of Queens speech shows Camerons weakness + lurch to right. + yet another eg of @nick_clegg’s impotence.#brokenpromise Again, I’ve no political affiliation. Nevertheless, I wonder what’s the great fuss over ...
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• Global Anti-Poverty Targets Tepid

  
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  In his latest installment of global development wonkery for Business Week, our New America Fellow Charles Kenny (whom we share with the Center for Global Development) eloquently argues that the World Bank and IMF’s latest calls to all but rid the world of “extreme poverty” by 2030 are – to put it nicely – ...
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• Brazil in Africa

  
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  According to the press , Brazil is negotiating an agreement with Mozambique to finance the construction of the Moamba Major dam to provide drinking water for Maputo. It is expected to cost U.S. $500 million. The Bank of Brazil has funded an environmental impact study for the project. With a population approaching two ...
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• MP3 of Scott Horton Show Interview on Food for Peace

  
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  Scott Horton and I had fun yesterday discussing the twisted history of U.S. foreign aid on his radio show . The show was spurred by yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article on Food for Peace , but farm subsidies took a thrashing across the board. There was also enough time to kick the stuffing out of ethanol. ...
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• Aid, dependency and illusory goodwill

  
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  The above map shows the GDP distribution in Africa in 2012. The darker the colour, the richer the country relatively. Africa is still the poorest continent by some distance so even the darker shaded countries are not exactly doing well on a global scale. The UKs decision to end aid to South Africa looks sensible on ...
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• Ottawa to Syrian rebels: fund yourselves

  
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  John Kerry believes it’s a good idea to fund Syrian rebels despite the blurry lines among Syrian reformers, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda fighters.  Canada disagrees.  Overlooked this insightful piece from the Globe & Mail last month, which lays out the reasons for Canada’s position. Hat tip to ...
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• UK direct aid to South Africa is to end, Justine Greening has announced. Now its time to lift the ring-fence

  
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  Justine Greening, the International Development secretary, has announced that direct UK aid to South Africa – which is currently worth £19 million – will end in 2013. At a conference of African ministers and business leaders in London, she laid out her reasons: "South Africa has made enormous progress over the ...
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• The Great Green Wall of Africa

  
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  This is a guest post by Kyle Benjamin Schneps; a dual master’s degree candidate at Columbia University specializing in international security policy and global health initiatives. He is currently completing a graduate internship with the Africa Studies program at Council on Foreign Relations. In February 2011, ...
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• Cash for Karzai in suitcases, backpacks, and grocery bags

  
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  Good old Uncle Moneybags is back, but this time his sacks are filled with American money for distribution to cronies and warlords.  From the Wall Street Journal yesterday: Karzai Confirms Accepting CIA Cash Monthly for 10 Years By JUHANA ROSSI in Helsinki and YAROSLAV TROFIMOV in Kabul Afghan President ...
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• My WSJ piece: “Food for Peace” Hurts Foreign Farmers

  
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  Wall Street Journal  April 30, 2013 [alternative  WSJ link - not blocked by paywall] How ‘Food for Peace’ Hurts Foreign Farmers For a half-century the program has done more to feed special interests than help the hungry . By JAMES BOVARD The United States government is the world’s largest food ...
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• UN Security Council Unanimously Authorizes UN Mission in Mali

  
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  On April 25, the Security Council approved a UN “peacekeeping” force of 12,600 for Mali. They asked the UN Secretary General to appoint a Special Representative for Mali, and called on member states to provide troops, police, and the necessary equipment. It also authorized the secretary general to approve ...
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