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Did Clinton Just Change US Policy on Hezbollah?

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Netanyahu, Saad Hariri, John Brennan, Israel, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, State Department, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

They say talk is cheap, but is it possible that recent comments by Hillary Clinton are signaling a radical change in US foreign policy?

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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

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

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An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk

The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Afghanistan War, Nato, Afghan Election, Tribes, Durand Line, Kabul, Middle East, Taliban, Policy, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Chicago, Afghan Strategy, Un, South Waziristan, Soviet Union, Pentagon, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Troop Levels, Terrorism, Pashtun, Foreign Policy, Kashmir, Insurgency, Al Qaida, State Department, Pashtunwali, Soviet Afghan War, Counterinsurgency, World News

I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...

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Zelaya: US-Brokered Pact For Honduran Crisis Fails

AP | MARTHA MENDOZA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Honduras Talks, Honduras, Zelaya Honduras, State Department, Zelaya, Honduras Plan, World News

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is d...

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Blackwater Still In Business: State Department Fumbles Effort To Oust Them From Iraq

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: State Department Iraq, State Department, Government Contractors Iraq, Blackwater, Dyncorp Iraq, Iraq War, Dyncorp, War in Iraq, Government Contractors, Blackwater Iraq, Politics News

Your tax dollars at work: as part of their effort to stop doing business in Iraq with companies affiliated with the controversial paramilitary contrac...

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President Obama's Credibility on the Line in Honduras

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Honduras Zelaya, Hillary Clinton, Thomas Shannon, Barack Obama, State Department, Foreign Policy, World News

The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?

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Think Tank's Advice To Europe: Stop 'Fetishizing' American Relationship

Spiegel Online | Gregor Peter Schmitz | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Uk, India, Bulgaria, France, Middle East, Obama, Spain, Diplomacy, Dc, Merkel, Nato, White House, Poland, Germany, European Council on Foreign Relations, Czech Republic, Cold War, Think Tank, Us, Israel, Fetishization, Afghanistan, Post American, European Union, Eu, Warburg Prize, Foreign Policy, Trans-Atlantic Economic Council, Wwii, State Department, Eu Usa Summit, Special Relationship, Angela Merkel, Europe, China, Soros, George Soros, World News

The council released a study on Monday called "Toward a Post-American Europe," based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 EU me...

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The Little Coup that Couldn't

Laura Carlsen | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy, Honduras, Human Rights, Latin America, Coup, State Department, Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Hillary Clinton, Tom Shannon, World News

If the agreement brokered this week holds, Honduran society will have turned the ugly precedent of a modern-day military coup d'etat into an example of the strength of nonviolent grassroots resistance.

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The Myth of Collateral Damage: Truth, Consequences and a Challenge to 'Say It Plain'

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Refugees, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Middle East, Iraq, Refugees, State Department, Barack Obama, World News

The Iraqi refugee tragedy continues to unfold. It is time for proactive policy and action, for Americans to make friends of the people we were seeking to help by doing the right things.

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Mapping Congo's Militarized Mines

David Sullivan | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Jim McDermott, Conflict Minerals, Department of Defense, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mining, Defense Authorization Act, Africa, United Nations, Electronics, State Department, War Wire, World News

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 has been making news because of all the things left out of it, including billions of dollars in cuts to expensive weapons systems.

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Basic Truths in Hoh Resignation Letter Were True When He Took His Job

David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Andrew Bacevich, President Obama, Andrew Sullivan, Garrison Keillor, George W. Bush, 9/11, Matthew Hoh, United States, State Department, Hoh Resignation, Barack Obama, Troops, Andrew Exum, Afghanistan War, Politics News, Steve Coll, Rory Stewart, Counterinsurgency, Richard Holbrooke, Michael Semple, Warwire, Military, Washington Post, Afghanistan, Christopher Buckley, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, World News

The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.

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A Modest Proposal: Make the Pentagon Our Very Own Ministry of Culture!

John Brown | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Gates, Cultural Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, State Department, Clowns, World News

The Obama-Biden team announced it would "expand cultural and arts exchanges throughout the world." But these words, despite their honorable intentions, have not resulted in much noticeable action.

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Matthew Hoh Resigns: State Department Official Quits Over Afghan War

Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Abdullah Abdullah, White House, Karzai, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, Afghan War, President Obama, Kabul, Taliban, Afghanistan Troop Levels, Afghanistan War, Obama Decision, Mcchrystal, Marines, Military, War Games, Hoh, State Department, Nato, Matthew Hoh, More Troops, Iraq, Gates, Mullen, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...

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U.S. Embassy In Baghdad Has "Multiple" Construction Flaws: Report

McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Charles Williams, Army Maj. Gen. Charles Williams, State Department, Iraq War, US Embassy Baghdad, War Wire, Baghdad, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, US Embassy Iraq, World News

WASHINGTON -- The $736 million new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which American diplomats have occupied for 18 months, contains "multiple significant const...

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State's Human Rights Guy Needs to Man Up Fast

Jeff Ballinger | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Usaid, Workers, Unions, Public Diplomacy, State Department, President Obama, Politics News

Now that Michael Posner has been officially installed as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, it's about time we get started down the road to righting a whole slew of global wrongs.

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Hillary Is Still the Best President That Wasn't

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gallup Poll, Democratic Party, State Department, Obama, Presidential Experience, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, 2012, Politics News

Millions still have a deep respect, admiration, and appreciation for her tireless work as a women's rights advocate, her fight for health care reform, civil rights, and international diplomacy.

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Obama Administration To Unveil New Sudan Policy

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Sudan, Hillary Clinton, Khartoum, Darfur, State Department, World News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to roll out a new policy toward Sudan with an eye toward engaging the government in Khartoum but als...

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Matt Damon Narrates Video Against World Hunger

Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Hunger, Secretary of State, Poverty, World Hunger, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, Matt Damon, World Food Day, State Department, Impact News

The U.S. State Department released a video narrated by Matt Damon in late September to YouTube, describing the world food crisis and how global climat...

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Specter of Forced Repatriation

Allan Gerson | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Pmoi, Camp Ashraf, Mek, Geneva Conventions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojahedin-E-Khalq, Condoleezza Rice, Martin Indyk, Dell Dailey, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, State Department, Mohammed Khatami, World News

The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.

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Madeleine Albright: Stop Creating More Terrorists in Afghanistan

Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Al Qaeda, Serbia, National Security, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, United Nations, Afghanistan Army, Afghanistan, Christian Science Monitor, Global Viewpoint Network, State Department, Nathan Gardels, Madeleine Albright, Politics News

The last time the Democrats ran a war, it was "Madeleine's war," when we bombed Serbia. Albright, the former secretary of state, weighs in on Obama's deliberations on Afghanistan.

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Twittering the G20 Iranian Style

Leslie Harris | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Civil Liberties, Iran, Center for Democracy and Technology, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, State Department, Federal Government of the United States, Free Speech, United State, U.S. Government, Twitter, New York, Pittsburgh, Technology News

In the wake of protests last week at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the police arrested a self-professed anarchist for using Twitter to coordinate communications among G20 summit protesters.

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US, Cuba Held Unannounced Talks

AP | MATTHEW LEE and PAUL HAVEN | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Bisa WIlliams, US-Cuba Relations, Western Hemisphere Affairs, President Obama, Cold War, American Foreign Policy, Havana, Cuba, State Department, World News

NEW YORK — A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officia...

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GAO Report: State Department Language Skills Are Dangerously Insufficient

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gao Report, Foreign Service Officers Language Skills, Homeland Security, State Department Language Skills, State Department GAO Report, GAO Report Language Skills, Government Accountability Office, Daniel Akaka Homeland Security, State Department, GAO Report State Department Language Skills, Politics News

About a third of Foreign Service officers in jobs that require language skills don't have the proficiency required to do their jobs, hurting America's...

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Brutal Destruction Of Iraq's Archaeological Sites Continues (SLIDESHOW)

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Thomas E. Ricks, Pentagon, Major James Cogbill, Camp Alpha, Donald Rumsfeld, National Museum in Baghdad, Diane Tucker, State Department, War Crimes, Maryam Mussa, Iraq War, Clemens Reichel, Middle East, Great Mosque of Samarra, Department of Defense, Rumsfeld Doctrine, Ebay, Looted-Iraq-Artifacts, Iraq, Malwiya Tower, Babylon, Plundered Antiquities, Antiquity Thefts, Mesopotamia, Cradle of Civilization Looted, Ancient Sites Damaged, Hague Convention, National Gallery of Art, Obama Foreign Policy, Iraqi Refugees, Sumeria, Foreign Policy, Iraq Museum Database Project, Slideshow, Archaeology, War Wire, Iraq Archaeology, Diane Tucker Iraq, Archaeologist, United Nations, World News

A brutal plundering of this rich cultural heritage has been taking place in broad daylight ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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Honduran Tensions Rise As Curfew Enforced

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Zelaya, Honduras, Central America, Demonstration, Roberto Micheletti, Foreign Affairs, Tegucigalpa, State Department, Latin America, World News

While the the demonstrations are not violent as of now, police helicopters have started circling the area and the loud bangs of fireworks are punctuating the shouts.

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