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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News
Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News
Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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A Nobel Prayer

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, President Obama, Abuse, Henry Kissinger, Sacrifice, United States, Prophecy, Pray, Bill Kristol, Gandhi, Weapons, Rush Limbaugh, Commitment, Desmond Tutu, Presidency, Peace, Prayer, America, Foreign Policy, Muslim, Nelson Mandela, Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Prize, Conflict, Martin Luther King Jr., Military, New York Times, Worldview, Israeli, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.

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WTF? Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize?

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Henry Kissinger, Obama Guantanamo, Politics News
Dave Lindorff

One can only hope (ah, that intoxicating word!) that President Obama will take his award seriously, and will use his new status as official man of peace to actually bring peace.

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He Should Have Turned It Down

Jesse Berney | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Nobel Peace Prize, Henry Kissinger, Presidency, Barack Obama, President Obama, World News
Jesse Berney

Barack Obama's presidency is 17 days younger than my daughter, and she just figured out how to put Cheerios into her mouth. The Norwegian Nobel Committee made a grave mistake.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Alfred Nobel, Al Gore, Willy Brandt, Henry Kissinger, Russnow, Blackberry, Twitter, Iraq, Facebook, Woodrow Wilson, Cnn, Muslim, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Russnow, Iraq War, Jimmy Carter, Youtube, League of Nations, Afghanistan, Obama Nobel, Barack Obama Nobel, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, World News
Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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Former Sec. of State George Shultz: Quote Me - End the US-Cuba Embargo

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: George Shultz, Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Henry Kissinger, Cuba Travel Ban, Center for Democracy in the Americas, Sam Nunn, Cuba, William Perry, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News
Steve Clemons

Former Reagan Administration Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State George Shultz thinks that the US embargo against Cuba should "simply be lifted."

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Afghanistan, Movie Critic, Pentagon Papers, Counterinsurgency, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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From Stand-Up Comic to Stand-Up Guy: The Long, Strange Trip of Al Franken

John Eskow | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Snl, Alan Franken, Al Franken Senate, Al Franken Comedian, Saturday Night Live, Henry Kissinger, Kbr Rape Case, Jamie Lee Jones, Politics News
John Eskow

It's been a tremendous journey from Saturday Night Live to the Senate floor, from dissing Kissinger to defending veterans, from Gilda Radner to Jamie Lee Jones.

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Exclusive: President Jose Ramos-Horta On East Timor, Genocide, & Why President Clinton Is "One Of My Favorite Politicians In The World"

Sabine Heller | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, East Timor, Henry Kissinger, Indonesia, Jose Ramos-Horta, Nancy Pelosi, Suharto, Richard Kern, World News
Sabine Heller

In an interview, East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta discusses life after an assassination attempt, hypocrisy and what it means to forgive.

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Senator Edward Kennedy Made Human Rights Part of US Foreign Policy

Aryeh Neier | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Augusto Pinochet, Senate, Human Rights, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, Ted Kennedy, World News
Aryeh Neier

Kennedy reacted strongly to reports of the great cruelties that accompanied the coup in which General Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile.

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The Bomb at 64: Let's Retire It

William Hartung | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, John F. Kennedy, Anti-Nuclear Summit, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, Hiroshima Anniversary, Obama Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
William Hartung

Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.

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Honduras: Term Limits When Governments Benefit People

Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Dominican Republic, Chile, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Henry Kissinger, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Military Fascism, Us-Policy-in-Latin-America, Manuel Zelaya Honduras, Post-Cold-War, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavism, Coup D'etat, Secretary Clinton, Anti-Castroites Miami, United Nations Development Programme, Cia, Oscar Arias, Richard Nixon, US Embassy, State-Department-Human-Rights-Report, Guatemala, Lyndon Johnson, Salvador-Allende, Undp, World News
Nelson P. Valdes

Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.

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Clinton Consulted With Republicans, Neocons On Big Foreign Policy Speech

The Plum Line | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, Henry Kissinger, Liberals, Clinton, Joseph Nye, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Brent Scowcroft, Neoconservatism, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Schultz, Center for American Progress, Foreign Policy, Jim Jones, Paul Farmer, State Department, John Podesta, Francis Fukuyama, Neocons, Strobe Talbott, Robert Gates, Foreign Policy Advisers, Hillary Clinton, Richard Lugar, Politics News

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...

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Joe Klein: Obama Needs To Get Tougher On Domestic Agenda

TIME | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Klein, Time, Henry Kissinger, Alternative Energy, Domestic Agenda, Economy, Regulatory Reform, Domestic Policy, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Obama, Health Care, Barac Obama, Politics News

Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of thes...

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Kissinger: "Obama Is Like A Chess Player"

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kissinger Obama, Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger Obama, Kissinger Barack Obama, Politics News

In a long interview with Germany's Der Spiegel, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger compared President Obama to a chess player making an opening...

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Top 8 Famous Refugees (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Madam Albright, Slideshow, Henry Kissinger, Anne Frank, M.I.A., Gloria Estefan, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Refugees, Albert Einstein, World Refugee Day, Famous Refugees, Famous World Refugees Huffington, Famous Refuggee, World News

June 20th was World Refugee Day. Here's our list of some of the most famous refugees ever. Know of other famous refugees? Leave your suggestions i...

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The "Just Say NO-Bama Campaign" Part 2: Diplomacy is Neither Timid Nor an Apology

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: John McCain, Twitter, Hungary, Kimberly-Krautter, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Iranian Riots, Diplomacy, Mike Pence, Apology, Saber Rattling, Julie-Menin, Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Middle East, Poland, Solidarity, Iranian Elections, Timid, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, World News
Kimberly Krautter

Iranians have not asked for U.S. or other Western support other than a desire that our media continue to report their story.

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Kissinger: Obama Is Handling The Situation In Iran Well

Think Progress | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Iran, Kissinger Iran, Henry Kissinger, Obama Iran Election, Kissinger, Kissinger Obama, Kissinger Obama Iran, Politics News

In an interview with CNN yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized President Obama's approach to the turmoil in Iran, saying that he shouldn't be ...

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Henry Kissinger Describes Brooke Astor's Decline

AP | SAMUEL MAULL | Posted 06.21.2009 | Local

Read More: Henry Kissinger, Brooke Astor, Brooke Astor Trial, New York, Local News

NEW YORK — Television personality Barbara Walters and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger testified Thursday that in her final years socia...

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Charity Is Dead

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Claire Williams, Henry Kissinger, Charity, Earth Day, New Radicals, Speaker's Corner, Giving, The Giving Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

Does Speaker's Corner still exist in London's Hyde Park? When I was a teenager in the early 70s, our family lived in Europe, and seeing a young man at...

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Khmer Rouge Defendent: US Policies Enabled Cambodian Genocide

News 24 | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Pol Pot, Foreign Affairs, Genocide, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge Regime, Us-Policies, Advocacy, War Crimes, World News

The man accused of serving as the Khmer Rouge's chief torturer testified on Monday that US policies in the 1970s contributed to the brutal regime's ri...

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Obama's Rugged Week

William Bradley | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Economic Crisis, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Tim Geithner, Hamid Karzai, Aig, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Paul Krugman, Leon Panetta, Wall Street, Hillary Clinton, Dmitri Medvedev, Henry Kissinger, Gary Hart, Chuck Hagel, James Baker, Politics News
William Bradley

Is Geithner's plan another bailout to Wall Street? Or is it needed pragmatism to work with a deeply troubled, farcically entitled though still necessary private financial sector?

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Joshua Cooper Ramo: Surprise! Global Financial Crisis Could Turn China Into A Superpower

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Cabinet, China Tibet Crackdown, China Products, World Economy, Henry Kissinger, Time Magazine, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, President Obama, 9/11, Banking Crisis, University of Michigan, Bill Browder, Richard Nisbett, Diane Tucker, Hermitage Fund, China Economy, China Human Rights, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Global Financial Crisis, China, The Atlantic, Age of the Unthinkable, Chinese Financial Crisis, American Superpower, Superpower, Investment Banks, Leveraged Buyout, Subprime Mortgage Market, Stock Market, Free Market, New York/New York, Books, World News
Diane Tucker

The Chinese banking system has been through so much stress during the last few decades, they are in a much better position than the U.S. to deal with the global financial crisis, says Joshua Cooper Ramo.

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