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Original Technorati articles tagged “foreign aid”

• 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”

 

• U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to Mali

  
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  At the Mali Donors Conference in Brussels on May 15 the United States announced $32 million in new humanitarian assistance to support Malian refugees in neighboring countries and to the internally displaced. The same day, the U.S. Department of State spokesman said that the Obama administration will request from ...
  5 days ago

• Richard Ebeling Amidst Soviet Crackdown

  
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  This is a photo of Ludwig von Mises’ historian Richard Ebeling  ”near the TV Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, January 13-14, 1991, (Soviet tank and crew member in background) after the Soviet military seized government buildings and communication centers in an attempt to crush the Lithuanian freedom movement. ...
  6 days ago

• Congress Answers Obama Plan With Smaller Food Aid Changes

  
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  After the Obama administration proposed moving the international food aid program out of the Agriculture Department, the Congressional Agriculture Committees took lesser actions.        
  1 week ago

• POMED Notes: “Building a Brighter Future in Syria”

  
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  On Friday, May 17, Freedom House hosted a panel discussion titled “Building a Brighter Future in Syria.” Panelists included Kinda Kanbar , a Syrian journalist; Mohammed Aly Sergie , Senior Editor at Syria Deeply; Omar Hossino , a Syria analyst; and Oubab Khalil , Chief of Staff for the National Coalition of ...
  1 week ago

• Food aid reform is running into trouble in Congress

  
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  One of the attention-grabbing ideas in the White House’s 2014 budget was a big overhaul  of the $1.4 billion U.S. food aid program. Instead of buying food from U.S. farmers and shipping it overseas, some of the money would just be sent directly to poor countries. A woman carries a bag containing rice donated ...
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• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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. ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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