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Kerry's Historic Opportunity on Genocide Policy

Susan Morgan | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur Genocide, Senate Confirmation, Sudan, John Kerry, Genocide, Foreign Policy, Obama's Cabinet, President-Elect Obama, Kerry Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Omar Al-Bashir, Genocide Task Force, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, US Foreign Policy, Susan Rice, Janjaweed Militia, Icc, Dr. Susan Rice, International Criminal Court, World News
Susan Morgan

Written by Eric Cohen and Susan Morgan At last, US rhetoric on genocide may mature into effective policy against genocide. What better place to begi...

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Susan Rice and the United Nations

Henry Miller | Posted 02.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Susan Rice, United Nations, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, President Obama, Home News
Henry Miller

President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of Susan Rice to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations adds an intriguing dimension to his Administration...

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Obama Has Good Taste in Women: Take a Look at His Cabinet

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Hilda Solis, Lisa Jackson EPA, Janet Napolitano, Rick Warren, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

President-Elect Barack Obama is on track to nominate the most women to his cabinet than any other U.S. President in history. While President Bush had...

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Obama's Africa Policy Examined

Council on Foreign Relations | Posted 01.22.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Genocide, Obama Congo, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Africa, Obama Somalia, Obama Africa, Obama Darfur, Bush Africa, Obama Foreign Policy, World News

Shortly after Barack Obama's election, South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper ran a special issue depicting the president-elect as a superhero (Atla...

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Hillary Clinton's High Noon

Sunil Adam | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Edward Kennedy, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Jeb Bush, New York Senate Race, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News
Sunil Adam

If the Democrats send Caroline Kennedy to the Senate, the GOP will have an easier time sending Jeb Bush to keep her company. Talk about heir apparents.

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Will Obama Be Inclusive When it Comes to Security?

Amb. Swanee Hunt | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Susan Rice, Afghanistan, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Amb. Swanee Hunt

We need to do more than protect women -- we need to acknowledge their leadership. That's the basic tenet of "inclusive security."

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Doug Bandow: Obama Should Rethink Humanitarian Intervention

Antiwar.com | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

Read More: Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Humanitarian Intervention Is Wrong, Obama Humanitarian Intervention, Humanitarian Intervention Is Force, antiwar.com, Washington Times, Robert Mugabe, Foreign Policy, Zimbabwe Intervention, Obama Foreign Policy, World News

War seems so simple. Take the tragic case of Zimbabwe, suffering under the odious Robert Mugabe. The economy is collapsing; people are starving; disea...

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AP: Cracks Appear In Obama Foreign Policy Team

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Barack Obama, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Obama Foreign Policy Team, Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, President Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The first sign of cracks in President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy team of rivals emerged on Monday as his choices for secre...

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Restoring America's Global Image: Strengthen the United Nations

Sam Sedaei | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Susan Rice, George W. Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Treaty of Versailles, Hillary Clinton, Unsc, Iaea, China, Barack Obama, UN General Assembly, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

The U.N. is like the Titanic, and just as one cannot turn around the Titanic quickly, reforming the United Nations will also not be easy.

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Should Progressives Be Upset with Obama?

David Corn | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Obama Administration Picks, Susan Rice, Jared Bernstein, Robert Gates, Liberals, Tim Geithner, James Jones, Progressives, Obama Transition, Hillary Clinton, Chris Bowers, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Corn

With these hawkish, Rubin-esque, middle-of-the-road picks, has Obama abandoned the folks who brought him to the dance?

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Was There Good News from Africa in 2008?

Olivier Kamanda | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Susan Rice, Africa, Sudan, United Nations, Mauritius, DRC Violence, Obama, Botswana, Congo, World News
Olivier Kamanda

Headlines from Africa in 2008 recounted brutal riots in Kenya, a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and election-driven chaos in Zimbabwe. But there was also good news.

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This (Old) News Just In... Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Study Group, Iraq War, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Private Contractors, Richard Danzig, Blackwater Iraq, Iraq Occupation, New York Times, Iraq, Residual Force, Barack Obama, Colin Kahl, Anti-War, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq Withdrawal, Obama Iraq, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

Some people seem to just now be waking up to the fact that Obama never had a comprehensive plan to fully end the occupation. Obama never defined "ending the war" as removing all U.S. forces from Iraq.

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Obama's Opening Gambit

Michael Carmichael | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Shimon Peres, Susan Rice, Eric Holder Obama Cabinet, Robert Gates, Ehud Olmert, Brent Scowcroft, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Foreign Policy, World News
Michael Carmichael

The consensus in America is that US foreign policy is broken. To a great extent, Obama's political mandate is predicated on his promises to repair, refurbish and reconfigure American foreign policy.

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Time Mag: "Obama's New World Order"

TIME | Karen Tumulty and Mark Thompson | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Susan Rice, Jim Jones, Obama's New World Order, President Obama, Obama Cabinet, Obama Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, World News

It was hard to miss the message that Barack Obama was sending with the powerful tableau lined up behind him onstage in Chicago. "I assembled this team...

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Women of Color in an Obama Era

Tara L. Conley | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Susan Rice, Women of Color, Economy, Janet Napolitano, Brave New Films, Tara L Conley, Hillary Clinton, Race, Barack Obama, Working Class, Women of Color Policy Network, Gender, Politics News
Tara L. Conley

I can't help but wonder how Obama's power as President will address the myriad of low wage-(or no wage)-earning, care-taking, health-insurance-lacking, poverty-stricken women of color in the US.

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Obama Shatters Glass Ceilings with His Dream Team

Michelle Kraus | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Rice, Obama Transition, Glass Ceiling, Wal-Mart Stampede, William Jefferson Clinton, Madeline Albright, Senator Clinton, Barack Obama, Governor Janet Napolitano, President Bush Regrets, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

By goodness, check out all those notable women: there's Hillary, there's Janet, there's Susan, and even room for Madeline and her brilliance.

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Obama's UN Envoy Got Iraq War Wrong

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Rice Un Ambassador, Susan Rice Un, Susan Rice, Obama Transition, Susan Rice Iraq War, Obama National Security Team, Obama Un Ambassador, Dr. Susan E. Rice, Politics News

The Nation reports that President-elect Obama's UN ambassador is another staffer who got the Iraq war wrong: On the outside chance that anyone thoug...

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Petite Power! Obama Vertically-Challenges His Cabinet Picks (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Slideshow, Susan Rice, Robert Gates, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, Hillary Clinton, How Tall Is Susan Rice, Petite Power, Susan Rice How Tall, Obama's Cabinet Picks, How Tall Is Robert Gates, Robert Gates, How Tall, Style News

Fun fact: if elected, John McCain, at 5'7", would have been the shortest president to hold office in over one hundred years (President William McKinle...

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Can Obama's Big Tent Team of Friends and Rivals Really Deliver Change?

Christine Pelosi | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Rice, Robert Gates, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Jim Jones, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

While many are skeptical that former rivals can actually work together to achieve change, 66 million Americans vested Barack Obama with the responsibility to try.

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Obama's Foreign Policy: It Depends What You Mean by "Pragmatic"

Scott Malcomson | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, China, Barack Obama, James Jones, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Politics News
Scott Malcomson

What alarms me slightly about the new team is that its China experience is so thin. From Jones to Susan Rice to Clinton to Steinberg and Gates, there are glimmers of China experience, but not much.

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Colin Powell for Middle East Envoy -- Dennis Ross for US Ambassador to Israel?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dennis Ross, James Woolsey, Thomas Donilon, Colin Powell, Bob Gates, Palestine, Chuck Hagel, Hamas, Middle East Peace Process, Robert Satloff, Jim Jones, Barack Obama, Warren Christopher, Iran, Richard Armitage, Susan Rice, James Steinberg, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Gregory Craig, Richard Lugar, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Colin Powell could be the person asked to do the broad negotiating and arm twisting to achieve the Obama administration's foreign policy objectives with Iran and in Arab-Israel peace negotiations.

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Susan Rice, UN Ambassador

HuffPost/Various | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Foreign Affairs, Susan Rice Barack Obama, Susan Rice, United Nations, Susan Rice Un Ambassador, Susan Rice United Nations Ambassador, Ambassador Susan Rice, Susan Rice Un, Susan Rice United Nations, Susan Rice Us Ambassador to the Un, Un Susan Rice, Susan Rice Obama Advisor, Eric Holder, Ambassador Rice, Politics News

Check back for updates ***Update 12/1, 11 AM*** At a news conference today, Obama introduced his picks of retired Marine Gen. James Jones as Whit...

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Seth Colter Walls

Obama Foreign Policy Aide: McCain Is Out Of GOP Mainstream On Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Withdrawal, John McCain, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Nouri Al Maliki, Politics News

Barack Obama's chief foreign policy adviser Susan Rice just strolled past past the Huffington Post office inside media pavilion number 5 here at the D...

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Seth Colter Walls

Richard Clarke: "Quick Draw John" McCain Wanted War Before Bush Did

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Susan Rice, Rudy Giuliani, Richard Clarke, Barack Obama, Politics News

The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain both held conference calls Wednesday afternoon to hammer each other on national security. McCain's mess...

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Obama Adviser: McCain May Have Made Georgia Situation Worse

Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Crisis Georgia, Obama Georgia, Obama Adviser Rice, Barack Obama, Susan Rice, McCain Georgia, Mccain Crisis Georgia, John McCain, McCain Russia, Georgia Situation, Politics News

Barack Obama adviser Susan Rice said on Hardball last night that John McCain's belligerent response to the Russian actions in Georgia "may or may not ...

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