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Syrian Diplomat Forced To Leave William Howard Taft House

The Huffington Post | Michael Grass | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Video, DC Real Estate, Syrian Embassy DC, Syrian Embassy Washington, William Howard Taft, U.S. State Department, Kalorama, Syria Massacre, Syria, State Department, Syrian Revolution, DC News

WASHINGTON -- While the intricacies of international diplomacy might be slow and boring, Tuesday's coordinated action by the State Department to expel...

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Some Additional Thoughts on Chen Guangcheng's Hopeful Departure From China

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Wang Dan, Bob Fu, China, China Human Rights, US State Department, Chen Guangcheng, US-China Relations, Wei Jingsheng, World News

China watchers have differing opinions on China's decision to let activist Chen Guangcheng apply to leave China for the United States, on the trustwor...

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Take a Minute and Stick Up for Whistleblower, Peter Van Buren

Pat LaMarche | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: PETER VAN BUREN, Whistleblowers, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, US State Department, Politics News

Radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry October 16, 1859. His goal was to encourage the slaves to revolt against their masters. ...

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State Department Sex Scandal In Iraq?

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Video, State Department Oral Sex Iraq, US State Department Sex Scandal, US State Department, Oral Sex Iraq, Iraq Whistleblower, US Iraq Scandal, PETER VAN BUREN, State Department Oral Sex Baghdad, Oral Sex, State Department Iraq, State Department Oral Sex, Iraq, We Meant Well, World News

Blogger and foreign service officer Peter Van Buren made potentially damning claims on Wednesday on his blog, We Meant Well, alleging that a high-rank...

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State Dept. Drops Plan To Protect Foreign Exchange Students Despite Abuse Allegations

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and MITCH WEISS | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Boy Scouts, Foreign Students, Girl Scouts, Foreign-Students-US-Studying, Exchange Students, State Department, High School Students, Office of the Inspector General, Foreign Exchange Students, Exchange Visitor Program, High School, Foreign High School Students, US State Department, Students, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Education News

JACKSON, Miss. — Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department abandoned a plan to require...

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First Gay U.S. Ambassador Reflects On Life, Activism And Philanthropy

Windy City Times | Tracy Balm | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Gay Rights, Hormel Foods, Former Ambassador James Hormel, LGBT Rights, Ambassor James Hormel, James Hormel Fit to Serve, James Hormel, U.S. State Department, Fit to Serve, Gay Voices News

James Hormel, born in 1933 in the heart of the Depression, was mostly sheltered from the economic crisis facing the United States. However, despite be...

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A Strategy for Cultural Diplomacy

Philip Seib | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Cultural Diplomacy, US State Department, Hu Jintao Diplomacy, Hu Jintao China, Diplomacy Russia, Ann Stock Diplomacy, World News

At first glance, cultural diplomacy seems a relatively non-threatening way to project identity and influence, but its impact can be profound.

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Keystone XL: A 'Game of Hot Potato'?

Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Energy, Transcanada, Solar, Alternative Energy, Geothermal, Wind, Oil, All Terrain, Keystone XL, U.S. State Department, State Department, Green News

When the State Department moved Thursday to postpone a decision on whether the Keystone XL oil pipeline serves the national interests of the United States environmental groups found much to celebrate. But they also surely know that the dispute over Keystone XL -- a proxy, really, for broader and still unresolved debates over oil, climate change and energy policy in America -- is far from over, not least because the delay was much more about political expediency than it was about environmental due process. In reality, the administration's punt highlights just how far environmentalists still have to go to get the country focused on clean energy policies.

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Islamophobia Network Targets Top Performing American Schools

Michael Shank | Posted 11.26.2011

While I recognize that there are legitimate concerns regarding the use of public funds for these charter schools... it seems that at the heart of this is an undercurrent of phobia about Islamic teaching in America.

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Private Sector Approach at U.S. Aid Agency: Can Tough Measures Aid U.S. Jobs?

Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Innovation, Dfid, Foreign Aid, Federal Bureaucracy, Agricultural Development, US Government, US Congress, Entrepreneurs, Usaid, US State Department, The White House, Business News

In the stock market the smart money knows "if you're going to panic, panic early". The same is true for entrepreneurs when it comes to recognizi...

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Mujahedin Machine vs. The Iranian-American Community

Trita Parsi | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Trita Parsi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Irgc, US State Department, Maryam Rajavi, Barack Obama, Mujahedin-E Khalq, Politics News

The MEK's desperation is showing through. They no longer pretend to be disconnected from their campaigns against other Iranian Americans. Their attacks are posted on their own websites, and the attackers openly declare their dedication and loyalty to the MEK.

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House Dem: Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing Was 'A Zoo'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Abortion, Latin America, US State Department, House GOP, Foreign Affairs, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Budget, Appropriations, Howard Berman, Organization of American States, State Department, Foreign Policy, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, House Democrats, 112th Congress, Gop, Gary Ackerman, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee left for their weekend recess Friday still fuming over a two-day mark-up session that s...

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U.S. Decides Not To Bother Extraditing Randy & Evi Quaid

AP | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Quaids Arrest, Santa Barbara, Randy Quaid, Dennis-Quaid-Brother, US State Department, Canada, The-Quaids-Vancouver, Evi Quaid, Los Angeles News

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A California prosecutor says U.S. officials have rejected a request to seek the extradition of actor Randy Quaid and his...

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A State Department That Can

Sean Penn | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Venzuela Sanctions, Iran, U.S. Sanctions, Venezuela, Cisada, U.S. State Department, World News

The American people should call for a moratorium on the CISADA sanctions of Venezuela until a congressional hearing may be convened and strategic benefits evidenced in balance with the historic effects of similar sanctions in other developing and impoverished nations.

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U.S. Orders Nonessential Diplomats To Leave Yemen

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Ahmed Al-Soufi, Britain, Yemen, Middle East Protests, u.s. Diplomats, Hashid, Detroit, Sanaa, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. State Department, Dubai, Christmas Day Bomber, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al Qaeda, World News

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Wednesday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to depart Yemen and urged all Americans there to leave as sec...

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U.S. State Department Orders Some Embassy Staff To Leave Syria

Reuters | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Damascus, Damascus-Syria, Middle East Protests, US Embassy Syria, US State Department, US Embassy, Bashar Assad, Department of State, Syria Protests, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, World News

April 26, 2011 2:16:02 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has ordered some non-essential U.S. embassy offici...

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Q&A With Julian Assange's Biographer

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Julian Assange, Offical Secrets Act, Bradley Manning, Andrew Fowler, Wikileaks, Daniel Ellseberg, US State Department, Books News

The Most Dangerous Man in the World is a new unauthorized biography on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Award winning investigative journalist Andrew Fowler did a Q & A via email.

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Gaddafi's Son Had Internship In U.S. Just Before Libyan Conflict

AP | By DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi toured U.S. ports and military facilities just weeks before he helped lead deadly attacks on...

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Don't Know Melanne Verveer? Why you Should

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Women's History Month, Children, Goldman Sachs 10, Tahirih Justice Center, Women in the World Conference, 10x10, Women's Empowerment, Plan USA, Girl Effect, The Daily Beast, Women, Polaris Project, Joint Women's Leadership Symposium, President Barack Obama, Growing Up Global, Room to Read, Rebecca Project, Global Giving, Sea Service Leadership Association, Facebook, Girl UP, Japan, Haiti, Women for Women International, Girls, Melanne Verveer, Girl Scouts, Armed Services, Three Cups of Tea, Hillary Clinton, 000 Women, Girls Inc., U.S. State Department, Impact News

Women stand at the center of every type of dramatic change occurring in the world today: whether it's coordinating relief in Japan, consolidating democracy in Egypt or running Facebook.

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HALO: Clearing Mines and Saving Lives

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Helen Gray remembers a field of 30,000 mines that ran straight through a village in Mozambique in south east Africa. Some of the homes were on one sid...

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The New Arab World Requires New Public Diplomacy

Philip Seib | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Doha, Al Jazeera Forum, Usaid, U.S. State Department, Public Diplomacy. Arab World, World News

The new dynamics of the Arab world require a meaningful shift in public diplomacy strategy, with less emphasis on advertising and more on service.

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Hillary Clinton's Spokesperson: Bradley Manning's Treatment 'Stupid'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisoner Abuse@Depressing, Human Rights, PJ Crowley, Cablegate, Julian Assange, Hillary Clinton, Bradley Manning, U.S. State Department, Wikileaks, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, World News

Hillary Clinton's spokesman has slammed the Pentagon for its "ridiculous" treatment of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier who is currently detained on ...

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Secretary Clinton and the Information War

Philip Seib | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Jazeera, Hillary Clinton, China, Information War, Public Diplomacy, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar, Papua New Guinea, U.S. State Department, World News

Unlike the United States, China has designed an approach to public diplomacy that is well-funded, imaginative, and fully integrated within its overall foreign policy.

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More Businesses, Consumers Work To Stem Human Trafficking

Mickey Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Old Navy, Gap, Nike, Levi's, Ecpat-USA, Abercrombie & Fitch, Banana Republic, Human Trafficking, U.S. State Department, Best Buy, Slave Labor, Advocacy, Activism, Veterans, Impact News

Companies are not powerless bystanders. Businesses play a crucial role in ensuring slave labor doesn't infect the products we buy. But it can be an uphill battle.

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International Pressure and Human Rights in Afghanistan: The Women's Shelter Case

Ahmad Shuja | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unama, Human Rights, Karl Eikenberry, Afghanistan Women's Shelter, Afghan Women's Network, Karzai, US State Department, World News

The government wants to take over shelters that house women who have suffered abuse and violence, while human rights organizations are trying to prevent the takeover of the only asylums.

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