Senate Foreign Relations Committee

State Department Warns Kerry Of "Serious Substantive Concerns" With Iran Sanctions Bill

The Cable | Josh Rogin | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

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Next week is going to be a big week for Iran sanctions, particularly on Capitol Hill. As administration officials change their tone and talk more abou...

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General David Petraeus Warns Of $10 Billion Per Year Afghan Security Cost

nytimes.com | MARK LANDLER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Security Forces, General Petraeus, Afghanistan, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, David Petraeus, World News

WASHINGTON -- America's involvement in Afghanistan could stretch on for years and cost upward of $10 billion annually just to finance an adequate Afgh...

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Democratic, Republican Lawmakers Raise Concerns Over An Afghan War Escalation

LA Times | Greg Miller | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Karzai, Afghanistan, Economy, Troop Levels, Timeline, Obama, Troop Decisions, War Tax, Jack Reed, Deficit, Dick Lugar, White House, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Spending, Bin Laden, Obey, Levin, World News

The persistent skepticism from the president's own party, along with new doubts raised by Republicans who have generally supported broadening the conf...

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Paying Peter to Kill Paul

Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Private Contractors, Blackwater, Afghanistan, President Obama, Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Contractors, Xe, Taliban, Triple Canopy, Breaking News, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News
Jon Soltz

American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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It's a Runoff, Now What? Parsing the Impacts of the Presidential Rematch in Afghanistan

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Senator John Kerry, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Isaf, President Barack Obama, Afghan-Runoff, Taliban, Pashtun, Al Qaeda, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tajik, Rahm Emanuel, Northern Alliance, Nato, Independent Electoral Commission, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General Stanley McChrystal, Afpak, Kai Eide, Afghan Election Fraud, Afghanistan Karzai Abdullah, Afghanistan Run-Off Election, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.

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Afghan Presidential Election Outcome Won't Be Known Until the Very Last Fake Vote Is Cast

Ben Berkon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Corrupt Election, Abdullah Abdullah, John Kerry, Afghanistan, Ben Berkon, Afghan Presidential Election, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

In international election news, the Afghan presidential election is heating up, and won't be decided until the very last fake vote is cast.

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Kerry Becomes Global Adviser To Obama

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — He's not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama's...

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Giving Aaron Schock a Pass on Honduras and DeMint

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Aaron Schock, Mitch McConnell, Latin America, John Kerry, Jim Demint, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras Coup, Arturo Valenzuela, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Foreign Affairs, Chicago News
Steve Clemons

I suspect that Rep. Schock is going down to check out what is real and what is not in the mess of the Honduras coup and its aftermath -- but Jim DeMint is going down to "meddle."

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Abstract Quality Journalism

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: President Obama, Quality Journalism, Peter K. Cross, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraq, Rick Reyes, Journalism, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Afghan Army, Steven T. Drees, Media News
Norman Solomon

The political rhetoric in Washington is close to 100 percent humanitarian, while the new supplemental infusion of U.S. spending for Afghanistan is 90 percent military.

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Sen. Kyl Puts Hold On State Dept. Nominees

Foreign Policy | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, State Department Nominees, Start Treaty, Senator Kyl, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, John Kyl, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, State Department, Kyl, Harry Reid, Politics News

All State Department nominees are on hold, some Hill and other sources tell The Cable. A congressional source says that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) put a hol...

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Iran Nuclear Assessment May Have Been Tainted By Iranian Intelligence "Ruse"

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - A report on Iran's nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories p...

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Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Embargo, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, National Interest, US Foreign Policy, Raul Castro, Hillary Clinton, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Carl Meacham, Realism, Richard Luar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, World News
Steve Clemons

For US-Cuba policy junkies, Lugar's report is pretty breathtaking in its indictment of decades of American failure in trying to adjust Cuba's national government's behavior via sanctions and an embargo.

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Gore Goes To Capitol Hill For Climate Change Testimony

New York Times | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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Former Vice President Al Gore will make a rare appearance on Capitol Hill next week, when he appears as an expert on climate change before the Senate'...

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Nice Not to Hear Norm Coleman at Hillary Clinton Hearing

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

My first reaction listening to the just one-notch-short-of-a-love-fest hearing was that Norm Coleman's absence has made a huge difference.

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Try President Bashir, But Prepare For The Consequences

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Genocide in Sudan, Human Rights, Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan, United Nations, Foreign Policy, Genocide, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Icc, International Criminal Court, Janjaweed Militia, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama's Cabinet, President-Elect Obama, Senate Confirmation, US Foreign Policy, World News, Chad, Darfur, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

There is no question that Bashir has earned his day in Court. But the world must take Bashir's threats of "more violence and blood in Darfur" seriously and prepare accordingly.

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Kerry's Historic Opportunity on Genocide Policy

Susan Morgan | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Darfur, Susan Rice, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, Genocide, Genocide Prevention Task Force, Hillary Clinton, World News
Susan Morgan

At last, US rhetoric on genocide may mature into effective policy against genocide. What better place to begin than the confirmation hearings to be held Tuesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?

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Joe Biden's CODEL to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Working All the Angles. . .Like He Should!

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

Biden's bipartisan trip of national security heavyweights in the US Senate is an important step in reestablishing some trust and common purpose in US foreign policy across party lines.

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Kerry: Pakistan 'Sincere' In Mumbai Crackdown

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan appears "sincere" in its effort to crack down on a militant group blamed for the Mumbai terrorist attack and has ...

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Sam Stein

Kerry Officially Takes Over Senate Foreign Relations Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

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Sen. John Kerry was officially announced as the next chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday. And his office sends over the followin...

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The Road Ahead

John Kerry | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Obama Global Finance, Climate Change, Global Terror, Obama National Security Team, Al Gore, Foreign Policy, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, World News
John Kerry

The next administration will be asked to undertake the tough work of remaking American foreign policy in the post-George Bush era. It's time we take the full measure of the 21st century threats we face.

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Kerry Expected To Get Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair

Boston Globe | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator John F. Kerry is w...

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Feingold May End Up Chairman Of Senate Foreign Relations

Washington Monthly | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

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Vice President-elect Joe Biden leaves an open chairmanship on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that could end up being filled by one of the most...

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Feingold Could Lead Senate Foreign Relations

The Hill | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Senator, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Senator, Barack Obama's Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Politics News

Vice President-elect Joe Biden leaves an open chairmanship on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that could end up being filled by one of the mos...

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Vetting Joe Biden: My Conversation With His Classmate

Cristina Chang | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Gaffe, Vice President, Beau Biden, Democrat, Hunter Biden, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Amtrak, Joe Biden, Democratic Primaries, Barack Obama, Election, Vetting, Home News
Cristina Chang

When Joe was a teenager his friends laughed at his stated ambition to be president, but they knew he was determined to make a career of helping people.

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