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2009-04-07 … currency […] for a long period of time" but the seeds of doubt have been sown. The markets appear baffled by the confused statements emanating from Washington. President Barack Obama told a new conference hours earlier that there was no threat to the reserve status of the dollar. What are we to make of …
2009-03-30 … securities, including its own investments. Objective processes are undermining the longstanding symbiotic relationship between Beijing and Washington, however. The US slump has produced a massive drop in purchases of Chinese goods. Chinese exports plunged 25.7 percent in February, slashing the …
2009-02-28 … Asian countries to "reform" their economies and financial systems, changing what had been a nationalistic, state-led capitalism, to the so-called "Washington consensus" of privatized, free-market capitalism. The accumulation of foreign exchange reserves since then has resulted from their experiences …
2009-02-21 … be far off:- US intelligence chief: World capitalist crisis poses greatest threat In testimony before the Senate Committee on Intelligence Thursday, Washington's new director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, warned that the deepening world capitalist crisis posed the paramount threat to US national …
2009-01-19 … programs, this ordering of priorities -- war and profits over people -- bespeaks the same depraved sensibility that has prevailed for generations in Washington. It is the same old rancid swill in a stylish new container. Anatole Kaletsky writing in The London Times did at least grudgingly admit to being …
2009-01-06 … investors. They pulled $215.7 billion from stock mutual funds in the first 11 months of the year, according to Investment Company Institute, a Washington-based association. That compares with a $91 billion inflow of funds for the same period of 2007. As a result of those withdrawals and market losses, …
2008-12-23 … therefore be safely assumed, given his wealth and influence, to be part of the inner circle of American Zionists that call the shots in New York and Washington. He is therefore not a man working alone; his business was made on electronic trading and advanced computerization, an area where Israel is a world …
2008-12-10 … believed that the Bible provided no model or guidance for civil government; a position that contrasts with the brazenly religious tones of many in Washington and London today and in the recent past. The republican and democratic nature of An Agreement of the People was strongly resisted by the senior …
2008-12-02 … billion; Tokyo plans a stimulus worth 5 trillion yen ($53 billion), though it plans only to submit the extra budget to parliament in the new year; Washington has spent or committed trillions of dollars and is expected to come up with another big package -- some economists believe it may be worth upwards …
2008-11-11 … has lent the money to and against what collateral security. The G20 met, in closed door talks, in Brazil this weekend ahead of the crisis meeting in Washington next weekend (November 15th). There are ever greater calls for coordinated action to address the real world effects of the 'financial crisis' and …
2008-10-28 … political and business leaders seeking to impress upon us that they are working hard to solve the crisis and that the forthcoming meeting "in the Washington area" on November 15th will herald a brave new world. Sarkozy Sarkozy […] went beyond calls by fellow European leaders […] saying governments …
2008-10-28 … to our keyboards,we urge you to take President Bush's sound advice to heart. Bush Calls For Panic The Onion [UK satirical magazine] October 15, 2008 WASHINGTON - In a nationally televised address to the American people Wednesday night, President Bush called upon every man, woman, and child to spiral …
2008-10-13 … looming threat of a world depression provided the backdrop for a meeting of finance ministers from the G7 industrialized countries, who gathered in Washington for emergency talks with US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. After a day of panic selling on …
2009-07-04 … Cuba was quick to identify the US military presence in Honduras as a hub of intrigue against Zelaya and his government. Similar imprecations against Washington's "meddling" in Honduras issued from the mouth of Chavez this week too.
2009-06-30 … deeper political-economic-social integration is underway. In 2004 Cuba and Venezuela organized the regional bloc of socialist states to counter the Washington-led Free Trade Area of the Americas. Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica, and Honduras are also members of ALBA. Significantly, from the vantage of the …
2009-06-26 … during his weekly TV-radio program “Alo, Presidente.” In 2004 Cuba and Venezuela organized the regional bloc of socialist states to counter the Washington-led Free Trade Area of the Americas. Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica, and Honduras are also members of ALBA. Significantly, from the vantage of the …
2009-06-24 … moved from a missile research center in Sanum-dong, Pyongyang to another launch site in Musudan-ri, North Hamgyong province. Analysts in Seoul and Washington speculate that the North might simultaneously launch missiles from both sites. Alternately, the train could be a “smokescreen” to confuse observers. …
2009-06-18 … striking the right balance between the government and the market, for integrating social and environmental factors and demilitarizing the economy. Washington will have to play a special role in this new perestroika, not just because the United States wields great economic, political and military power in …
2009-06-10 … Ling and Lee work for Current TV. Ironically, the San Francisco-based Internet news outlet was co-founded by Al Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice president. Washington, according to the Korea Times story above, does not rule out the possibility of Gore flying to Pyongyang to negotiate their release. Incidentally, …
2009-06-09 … dangerous communist. In view of the Obama White House’s recent overtures of peace and love to KGB assets Raul and Fidel, it can be expected that Washington will not only warmly promote the OAS’s new accommodationist stance on Cuba, but also downplay or quash charges leveled against retired US State …
2009-06-06 … in Geneva. The Kremlin media frankly concedes that the neo-Soviet leadership has no plans whatsoever for slashing its nuclear stockpile as long as Washington's intentions for missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic remain "unclear." Actually, there's no ambiguity with respect to …
2009-06-02 … opines: “Observers expect North Korea to conduct an ICBM test-firing near the middle of this month when the South Korea-U.S. summit takes place in Washington, in a bid to further ratchet up tension on the peninsula and add pressure on U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.” Pictured above: South …
2009-05-27 … of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, and Honduras, and serves as a socialist vehicle to resist the “imperialist” designs of the Washington-led Organization of American States, Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, and the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement. Chavez …
2009-05-16 … national interests of the Russian Federation,” the Soviet strategists can proceed to woo Tokyo away from its well-established military alliance with Washington. Perhaps the Russian president and the Communist Party chairman also discussed the Russian Security Council’s new “Arctic zone” policy, which …
2009-05-15 … organization. In view of US President Barack Hussein Obama’s friendly handshaking session with Chavez at the Summit of the Americas, we fully expect Washington to turn a blind eye to Latin America’s “Red Spread” and the Soviets’ revitalized interest in the region. The governments of Peru, Mexico, Colombia, …
2007-12-09 … they did for Chávez’s re-election last December. There is also evidence that the opposition, funded by national and international corporations and Washington “democracy promotion” grants, mounted an effective disinformation campaign. Let’s deal with these claims one by one. Grandin asserts that the local …
2009-07-03 … years away from having the capability to arm a missile with a nuclear payload. Honolulu is 7,100 kilometers from North Korea. Seattle is 7,900 and Washington 10,700. North Korea has tested its Taepodong-2 twice. The first effort, launched in 2002, failed after 40 seconds, and the second earlier this year …
2009-06-29 … who accused the administration of former US President George W. Bush of backing his removal, said there should be an investigation into whether Washington had a hand in Zelaya’s overthrow. “They will have to get to the bottom of how much of a hand the CIA and other imperial bodies had in this,” he …
2009-06-22 … Very smart — and so threatening in so many ways that it almost makes me pine for the good old days of the Bush era, when dumbness was de rigueur in Washington. Obama realizes that the Iranian students flashing their green-painted peace signs — or is that a “V” for victory? — are fervently patriotic, and, …
2008-12-30 … Do history textbooks around the world present us with the historical facts on this issue? Is it true what the website of the Naval Museum in Washington still asserts, namely that the Treaty of Kanagawa not only secured the provision of fuel for American ships “…but also opened the opportunity for …
2008-02-28 February 28, 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Interest rates and economic stimulus buzz in Washington.- Israeli air strikes on Gaza Strip follow Palestinian rocket attacks.- Ousted Thai PM Thaksin returns from exile.- Pakistan coalition mulls effort …
2008-02-27 … orchestra. The Hankyoreh in South Korea says it is clear that the historic concert in Pyongyang will improve relations between Pyongyang and Washington. The Guardian, however, argues the expectation of change created by high-profile events such as these is often unsustainably high…. More here.
2008-02-20 … says the elections could lead to continued political uncertainty in Pakistan, but he also expects new government leaders to seek good relations with Washington. MIDDLE EAST: Palestine Eyes Kosovo A senior aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestine may unilaterally declare itself …
2007-05-08 … say Nicholas Sarkozy is about the best thing to come out of France since french fries, and you can expect him to have a very warm relationship with Washington. Furthermore, his economic plans will do a world of good for the faltering French economy. Still, you should be prepared for him to say a few things …
2009-07-04 … for it at times […] At right is the same Grand Union flag that I posted last year. No, I haven't gone Tory. I'm just fascinated by it. I assume Washington had it flown while in Boston […] Hub Blog made my own journalistic contribution to the Fourth yesterday. I care deeply about the core issue and …
2009-07-03 … such change. Some even go so far as to claim that the Obama administration’s support for Zelaya has been “unambiguous,” adding that “complaints that Washington hasn’t acted fast enough to denounce the Honduran coup are silly and ignorant on the face of them.” Let’s be clear: no one is saying that U.S. …
2009-06-23 … the UK ambassador to the UN, Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Lord Boyce, and the UK's ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, outlines how Bush told Blair he had decided on a start date for the war. We live in an age when such damning information can …
2009-06-10 … state's 5 million registered voters but more than officials predicted. Deeds piled up surprisingly large margins across the state, including in the Washington suburbs of northern Virginia that his opponents call home. Deeds raised only about $3.7 million, far less than his rivals. McAuliffe, who dominated …
2008-10-18 … as VP Candidate In late August McCain chose 46 year-old Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska as his running mate. Compared with Obama’s safe choice of Washington veteran, Joe Biden, this was a bold and possibly rash decision. Palin had been a beauty queen, a mayor of her home town and was known to hold ultra …
2006-11-23 … The west mostly backed Saddam Hussein, the vicious Iraqi dictator, as the lesser evil compared with Islamic revolutionaries who had humiliated Washington and supplied him with arms, including ingredients for the chemical weapons which killed thousands of Iranian soldiers and civilians. Saddam was keen …
2006-11-05 … Any walkaway from the Bush line is going to be covered with a lot of cosmetics to make sure it’s not really a big change.’ Steve Clemons, Washington Political Analyst. Sex: The Republicans have always tried to be the ‘moral’ party, as opposed to the decadent goings on of the Democrats. In 2004 …
2006-10-25 … aide Mathew Rycroft- now ambassador to Saravejo- which recorded the head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, reporting to a Blair and others meeting that Washington was determined to invade and that the intelligence and evidence was being ‘fixed around the policy’. He also reported that the UN did not figure in …
2009-07-02 … Not enough visitors go there, and administrators do not have enough money to keep it up. America doesn’t even have a national World War I monument. Washington, D.C., has a local monument recognizing local Washington soldiers, but it is falling apart and in need of major repairs. Apparently no one wants to …
2009-07-02 … their jobs every month, and record-high home foreclosures are sweeping the nation. But apparently that is not enough for out-of-touch politicians in Washington. Now they want to hit Americans with what the Wall Street Journal is calling possibly the “biggest tax in American history.” If they were …
2009-06-22 … to Edward Abington, Jr., the United States' former consul general in Jerusalem who is now "guiding the Palestinians through the labyrinths of Washington. And his firm is being paid $2.25 million for his expertise." Israel's Unjust Deportation of David Ben-Ariel As a Christian-American member of the …
2005-09-25 … a clear strategy on what to do there, one could end up in a situation of escalation like the one leading up to the Iraq war. Suspicions against Washington after those months undoubtedly plays a significant role. But it is clear that there will have to be taken a broader approach to the entire issue of …
2005-09-23 … be excluded that the global war against warming will start to compete with the global war against terrorism for the attention of decision-makers in Washington. Whether this is right or not, there is likely to be a narrowing of the gap across the Atlantic on the issue. This is among the topics I will …
2005-09-22 … deal with the devil. Pyongyang has immediately stated that it demands access to a light-water reactor before it dismantles its nuclear program. And Washington has said that this is all wrong, and that it has to be the other way around. That will be the conflict when the talks continue, as well as the need …
2007-01-05 … up the recommendation from the Iraq Study Group to launch a major diplomatic initiative to revive a Middle East peace process? Javier Solana is in Washington these days, and he will certainly tell all he is meeting the priority that we Europeans attach to this. This was also the message that Chancellor …
2007-01-01 … agenda in Brussels on Wednesday. I'm coming there from Stockholm, and Gunnilla Carlsson - Minister for Development Assistance - is joining me from Washington where she has been attending the state funeral for former President Ford. And I also expect the Foreign Minister of Norway Jonas Störe to ge there. …
2009-06-16 … the US today and there was really very little to report either way. But Yahoo took matters into its own hands: The full text of the article follows: WASHINGTON (AP […] Construction of new homes jumped in May by the largest amount in three months, an encouraging sign that the nation's deep housing recession …
2009-05-29 … disposable (hedge funds, for example) in order to free up the funds to provide his dream of socialized medicine, he'll do it. There are no rules in Washington. The messiah will do whatever he wants. And if anyone objects, he can merely defend himself by countering that "Bush did it and the Republicans …
2008-12-14 … the end of 2011. Air Force One landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington. In a sign of security gains in this war zone, Mr. Bush received a formal arrival ceremony — a flourish absent in his three earlier trips. Referring …
2009-06-24 … He admitted that it will take Germany years to meet EU budget rules. MERKEL FACES DIFFICULT TALKS IN DC […] Chancellor Merkel is traveling to Washington this week to discuss the financial crisis and climate change with Barack Obama -- 2 issues where Germany and the US are deeply divided […] In the …
2009-06-19 … challenged Let's fret about our own tyrants Congresswoman vows not to complete Census Only explosives can explain WTC destruction Washington is unable to call all the shots ...The ending of America's financial-military empire […] ECONOMY Obama reform officially establishes banking …
2009-06-18 … as real enemy ...Ahmadinejad won, so get over it Iran accuses US of "intolerable" meddling ...Iran: Riots orchestrated by enemies ...Flashback: Washington's covert war inside Iran ...Flashback: Hersh reveals covert US ops in Iran ...Flashback: More covert war against Iran BBC caught in mass public …
2009-06-14 … […] Asked by the liberal Haaretz newspaper whether the Jewish state was looking at a "head-on collision" with the US if it doesn't comply with Washington's demands, Carter said "Yes […] A TEST OF FRIENDSHIP […] Picking up the gauntlet thrown down by Obama. NETANYAHU SPEECH TO INJECT ZIONIST …
2009-06-13 … that the ruling establishment in Washington is pursuing a consensus policy that will involve even greater war crimes against the Afghan people, as Washington continues its attempt to assert hegemony in Central Asia by military means. AFGHANISTAN'S DESTINY […] Afghanistan's destiny is deeply linked with …
2008-04-01 According to CNN…. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Karl Rove dismissed Hillary Clinton’s Michigan primary win Wednesday, telling a group of Republican party leaders that her victory showed …
2009-06-11 … in the Irish parliament. WORLD EVENTS CHALLENGE US ASSUMPTIONS […] Three recent developments in the Muslim Middle East and Central Asia challenge Washington's conventional assumptions about Pakistan, the Taliban, Lebanon and Iran. WRIGHT: "THEM JEWS" KEEPING HIM FROM OBAMA […] Controversial Chicago …
2009-05-27 … called for the creation of a separate Palestinian state in a vote that comes one week before a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington to meet with Barack Obama […] The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said Obama is determination to vigorously pursue "a comprehensive peace …
2009-05-26 … all possible measures against Iran ...Barak in US next week for Iran talks Mullen insists Iran wants nukes ...Could have nuke in 1 year ...Washington's pipe dream France opens military base in Persian Gulf […] HOUSE OF ISRAEL Obama betrays the liberals ...Obama's democratic authoritarianism …
2009-05-06 … · HOT Lanes construction already is providing local jobs and economic stimulus – pumping 11,800 jobs and $2.7 billion into the Metropolitan Washington economy between 2008 and 2013 · For Fairfax County, where most of the HOT Lanes construction will occur, construction will generate personal …
2008-11-11 … these races considerably. Terry McAuliffe has deep pockets and a wide range of connections both in the business community and across the Potomac in Washington – a connection that plays well with many Northern Virginia voters. He is personal friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Many political insiders …
2007-04-25 … Import and Export Corporation, told AFP. The Zibo Chemet Equipment Company (China), another company that is targeted by the sanctions announced by Washington on Monday, also denied any involvement. "We used to have a little business with Iran and Syria, but no more now," said an official surnamed Wang, …
2009-07-07 … that brought with it. This, of course, is to judge with 20/20 hindsite. Some kind of involvement in Vietnam was widely accepted as a policy in Washington orthodoxy in the early 60's. But as MacNamara discovered and had to endure, historical judgments are made this way, they can be harsh indeed, and …
2009-06-30 … of the Organization of American States had worked for weeks to try to avert any moves to overthrow President Zelaya, said senior U.S. officials. Washington's ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, sought to facilitate a dialogue between the president's office, the Honduran parliament and the military. …
2009-06-12 … it will likely take a back seat to more pressing economic and social issues. Thus, while the results will have consequences for the United States, Washington should not fall prey to solipsism by reading them simplistically as a referendum on bilateral relations. Cross-posted at Conventional Folly UPDATE: …
2008-11-24 … suit, a departure from her usual red or orange wardrobe. But when leaders of the world’s 20 largest developed and developing economies convened in Washington this month to tackle the world financial crisis, participants could not help noticing how Angela Merkel faded into the crowd of her largely male …
2009-06-30 … Lisa Andrews went out to see how the local population was responding to the passage of the Energy bill in the House. Andrews also talks to the Washington politicians, but let’s just glide right by them. Local farmer Hart Hudson said Friday, “I am not in favor of anything that will increase the cost of …
2009-06-15 Well, actually, he came from the west, so this isn’t a case of a Washington tenderfoot having to adapt to the rough-and-ready ways of our cowboy politicians out west – not that we don’t enjoy the cliche-laden image of it …
2008-07-25 … poll on government spending, and the results were exactly the opposite of what most politicians have been saying for years. Voters are fed up with Washington’s out-of-control spending. Politicians aren’t representing the will of the people when they bring home the bacon. They are really representing the …
2005-09-25 Within about two hours time there will be a march against the Iraq War in Washington. The number of people involved may, or may not, be important. The worldwide march held to protest the invasion of Iraq, seemed to me to be a …
2009-06-29 … about to go further toward neoliberalism than even the IMF proposed. And they justify it by referring to the need to break the sanctions imposed by Washington. This policy is obviously designed not to enrich the poor or sustain them in the long term, or strengthen their bargaining power as workers, but …
2007-07-16 … Wrong! Learn what could happen when the United States is hit by another terrorist attack by Islamic extremists that creates an extreme response by Washington in The Final Presidential Executive Order at http://www.swissconfederationinstitute.org/swisspreserve14.htm This is a fictional case study from a …
2009-07-07 … on Wall Street. And if you noticed, that's exactly what the politicians do. Could it be that they're trying to divert our attention away from Washington's own responsibility for the debacle? John Steele Gordon pretty much agrees: Wall Street is not an institution, it's a collection of individuals, …
2009-06-25 … European Communist states that took an independent position from the USSR, as Yugoslavia started doing early on in the Cold War, would have served Washington's immediate purposes just as well as democratization. Kagan isn't restricting his imagination to postmodern reconstruction of the last six years: …
2005-11-23 I missed the Dayton anniversary celebrationens in Washington yesterday. Previous commitments in Athens – where weather is as bad as you get – had to be honoured. It was all built up as a very major thing to …
2005-11-21 … doesn’t automatically solve anything. There is even a risk that it lulls the leaders of Bosnia into a sense of complacency. In parallel, talks in Washington are likely to result in a limited agreement on limited constitutional changes. That’s also a good step, although one that in itself does not address …
2009-06-09 You know, when the Democrats shot themselves in the foot in 1994, things were never this chaotic: WASHINGTON (CNN […] Newt Gingrich was the keynote speaker at Monday night's fundraising dinner for the Senate and House Republican campaign committees, but it …
2009-03-27 … seriousness ` Rome eventually understood that its imperial frontiers ex- ceeded its resources and pulled back. This realization has yet to dawn on Washington […] http://www.counterpunch.org/ ` Click […] 3 ASIA […] THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) …
2009-06-27 … the federal fiscal year which starts October 1st. Risch votes against energy bill, joins western caucus For a U.S. Senator brand new to the game in Washington, Idaho’s James Risch (right) has surprised some here in Idaho by jumping on the pro-nuclear cause with determined vigor. He signed on with a dozen …
2009-06-09 … another $100 billion to the red ink, which has to be monetized, thus causing inflation, higher interest rates, and a weaker dollar. The red ink that Washington is generating is a far greater threat to Americans than any foreign “enemies.” The hubris is extraordinary. A bankrupt government that has to send …
2009-06-19 … they'd have display ads in the Atlanta Constitution by sundown. On the other hand, maybe they should save their money and instead book flights to Washington to lobby Congress to not use the NRC's budget to de facto throttle the future of the nuclear renaissance […] Idaho Samizdat ~ …
2008-01-06 … tried to force Obama's hand by making him define the word "change" in the context of current US policies in the world and political conditions in Washington rather than a vacuum. In regard to what "change" really means to Americans, Michael Kinsley makes some great points today in Ny Times: The appeal of …
2007-05-17 First of all to one of my favorite politicians of all time, who is in Washington now for his last visit to the White House as the UK Prime Minister, Prime Minister Tony Blair. With Mr Blair leaving, America will sure lose its …
2006-04-04 … was based on the sort of ruthless calculation that had once given him unchallenged dominance of House Republicans and their wealthy friends in Washington's lobbying community: he realized he might lose in this November's election. DeLay got a scare in a Republican primary last month, and a recent poll …
2006-03-31 Virgin Mary tombstones full of drugs Thursday, March 30, 2006; Posted: 10:08 p.m. EST (03:08 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP […] Federal agents on Thursday said they had broken up a ring of drug smugglers who used tombstones featuring the Virgin Mary to move hundreds …
2006-03-28 … replacement, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to pre-empt the president. Bolten is widely experienced in Washington, both on Capitol Hill as well as at the White House, where he was deputy chief of staff before becoming director of the Office of Management and …
2009-02-22 … to discuss the world economy with President Obama. On 1 April world leaders will meet in London for the G20 Summit to continue the work begun in Washington last year."
2008-12-09 … policy settings. The EU's institutions have under ECOFIN direction given first priority to mitigating the financial sector crisis. Following the G20 Washington agreement and statement of tasks for building a new global financial & economic stability architecture around the IMF (for a new Bretton Woods …
2009-07-06 … currency one day, wants the matter discussed at this week's G8 summit in Italy, officials say. But in remarks that appeared intended to reassure Washington, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told reporters in Rome: "The U.S. dollar is still the most important and major reserve currency of the day, …
2009-07-01 … ban on U.S. chicken is "unfortunate," says Tony Corbo, legislative representative at Food and Water Watch, a nonprofit consumer group based in Washington. But "this is really about public health." Chinese chicken has been a longstanding issue between the U.S. and Beijing. In April 2006, the USDA …
2009-05-24 … stature in international politics, the rest of the world is still "Waiting for Godot" (the US) like in the famous play by Samuel Beckett. Has Washington's attention gone to presumably heftier matters like keeping America afloat? The diplomats spoke at a lunch hosted by the National Foreign Trade …
2009-07-08 … attempt at returning to his homeland on July 8, but not through the “regular” entry points. Zelaya, he explained, will attend a press conference in Washington on Tuesday to announce his plans after a possible meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a leftist whose husband Bill, the former …
2009-07-03 … end of her political career. Whatever else she is, she's ambitious -- not to mention full of herself -- and she's certainly looking beyond Juneau to Washington. What I think is that she's come to believe all the right-wing talk about how great and wonderful she is -- from the likes of Bill Kristol, as well …
2009-02-18 … nation's PM: swissinfo: Who is the more important partner for Kosovo: the European Union or the United States? H.T.: Relations between Pristina and Washington are excellent. I am proud to be the head of the most pro-American country in the world. But Kosovo is part of the European family – we want to …
2009-04-14 … pirate creates the first test of the Obama Administration’s post-Gitmo policy towards detained combatants. The federal courts in New York and Washington are both fighting to put the surviving pirate on trial, with Kenyan courts remaining an option. The rise of piracy in the waters off the coast of …
2009-01-19 … of his dream. From the perspective of a person who did not vote for Barack Obama, I hope that the next administration will bring a new civility to Washington, where people can debate ideas based on their merits and not make things personal. I appreciate the efforts the president-elect has made to forge …
2009-06-26 … advice about a choice of cheese. But I soon realized the question was larger than that. It was: what can I do about the way things are going in Washington […] I replied], We must make Obama do the right things. Email, write, and phone the White House. Do the same with your members of Congress. Round …
2009-06-27 … its highest level in 26 years. It's expected to climb to 9.6% when the June numbers are released next Thursday. "All year long, Democrats here in Washington have made plenty of promises about putting Americans back to work, but I think the question is: Where are the jobs?" he said. "We all remember the …
2009-04-03 … ground forces, they have been more enthusiastic about increasing humanitarian and development assistance to the beleaguered government in Kabul. In Washington, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the United States would ask its allies for more civilian help, …
2009-06-21 … standing in the eyes of the world,” Miliband said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Iran anew to conduct a complete and transparent recount. In Washington on Saturday, President Barack Obama urged Iranian authorities to halt “all violent and unjust actions against its own people.” He said the United …
2009-05-26 … of Washington’s unequivocal commitment to defense on the long-divided peninsula, where some two million troops face off. There is little more Washington can do to deter the ostracized North, punished for years by international sanctions and so poor it relies on aid to feed its 23 million people. …
2009-04-27 … of stealthy work to weaponize nuclear materials. He cited Syria, where inspectors last June found “significant” uranium traces at a spot alleged by Washington to have been a nascent plutonium-producing reactor before Israel bombed the target to rubble in 2007. Syria denies the accusations but has also …
2009-06-03 … does not include Israel but shortly before departing for Saudi Arabia, Mr Obama had a meeting with Israel’s defence minister, Ehud Barak, in Washington. The president is reported to have used the meeting to reiterate that the US intends to be tough with Israel on the question of settlement building …
2009-06-16 Obama Seeks Dictatorial Powers “To Seize Key Companies” June 16th, 2009 Posted By Pat Dollard. LA Times: Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration this week will propose the most significant new regulation of the financial industry since the Great Depression, …
2009-06-16 … Dr. Coburn said. “Rather than growing our economy, the overall impact of stimulus spending may prove to be harmful to our economy. For example, Washington’s efforts to ‘stimulate’ the economy are increasing utility costs, repairing bridges nobody uses, building tunnels for turtles, and renovating …
2009-06-16 … The boyish, articulate Beck is a dogmatic defender of the Constitution, which he believes is being perverted by both political parties in Washington. His top priority is to “take our country back.” His patriotic enthusiasm is intoxicating, and his show is a hit around the country. Last Friday on …
2009-07-03 … said U.S.-backed peace talks with Israel cannot resume until all settlement activity has ceased on captured land the Palestinians want for a state. Washington has also called for a total halt to settlement building in the West Bank, a demand that has opened the most serious rift in U.S.-Israeli relations …
2009-07-02 … to govern Jerusalem instead of Israel. The Center for American Progress (CAP), headquartered just three blocks from the White House in Washington, is regarded as one of the most influential think tanks in the city, if not the most influential. “CAP has been an incubator for liberal thought and …
2009-07-02 … that in a political dynamic there must be give and take. Wexler bewailed that while the US demands on Israel were highlighted in the Israeli press, Washington's demands on the Arab world were not gaining similar attention. According to Wexler, the Obama administration was making "equal, if not greater, …
2009-06-30 After long meeting in Washington between defense minister, US Mideast envoy, two fail to agree on settlement freeze. Issue to be debated again when Mitchell meets PM Netanyahu in …
2009-06-30 … time PA diplomat Saeb Erekat told the BBC that the Palestinians are currently in a position of strength compared to Israel, thanks to the pressure Washington is putting on the Netanyahu government. (Only self-respect and determination to achieve the Jewish National Goal can bring back strength to Israel …
2009-07-08 … for EU membership. The latest decision comes against the background of what appears to be a concerted push by the new Obama administration in Washington to deal with “unfinished business” in the Balkans, i.e. to put an end to the provisional Dayton agreement by centralising Bosnia-Herzegovina. Dayton …
2009-07-07 … architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, died early this morning at age 93. Family members said McNamara died at his home in Northwest Washington. They did not give a cause of death. McNamara was secretary of defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. In that …
2009-07-05 … design back in the late 1960s. Instead it was consigned to the halls of aircraft museums. Much like the Lunar Module from Apollo 11 that now sits in Washington’s Smithsonian museum, gathering dust, as a reminder of an era which passed decades ago. Of course, the enthusiasm for space travel was far greater …
2007-12-09 … America into pulling their chestnuts out of the Mideast fire. Israel, according to intercepted conversations by the Pentagon (and now circulating in Washington) is prepared to fight to the last American life. And those who mourn the young American dead and mangled soldiers in Iraq do not need to look at the …
2007-12-09 Washington’s New Imperial Strategy In Venezuela by Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com First used in Serbia in 2000, Washington has now perfected a new imperial strategy to maintain its supremacy around the globe. Whereas military invasions and installing dictatorships have …
2008-05-30 … fought not in Germany but in the United States to the Brandenburg Gate.” Steg said that “no German (chancellor) candidate would think of using (Washington’s) National Mall or Red Square in Moscow for rallies, because it would be considered inappropriate.” Angela Merkel reportedly found Obama’s plan to …
2009-06-25 … the most part be simply ignored or put on the back burner. Japan and India are, basically, the losers in the Great Game as it is being played out in Washington. The new Ambassadors to both countries? Political rewards for the faithful. The new Ambassador to India is, to quote, an "obscure former Congressman …
2009-06-24 … Business Daily, Forbes, Business Week, The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal or any other number of publications that actually cover Washington for business, rather than for someone relatively unknown to ask a pre-arranged question, points to the role that the Press will play for the Obama …
2008-12-25 … about trade, which he has since done nothing to dispel. And to add into the mix trade distorting policies are beginning to abound Politicians from Washington to Beijing are being pressed to help troubled industries, regardless of the consequences for trade. A bail-out of Detroit’s carmakers, whatever its …
2008-11-24 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Barack Obama’s “team of rivals” is turning into a collection well known to the Jewish community, which should comfort those who expressed …
2008-11-24 … join a rogues’ gallery of former U.S. allies whose interests outside the battlefield brought deep embarrassment and domestic political turmoil to Washington. In 1944, the invading U.S. Army handed the reins of power in Sicily to local “anti-fascists” who were in fact Mafia leaders. During the next half …
2008-11-24 … approved,” said J.D. Foster, a former staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers who is now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. “The other areas are quite a bit larger.” The Fed’s rescue attempts began last December with the creation of the Term Auction Facility to allow …
2006-10-31 weapons reportedly missing in Iraq POSTED: 1522 GMT (2322 HKT), October 30, 2006 “11/29/2006″; WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of weapons the United States has provided Iraqi security forces cannot be accounted for, and spare parts and repair manuals are …
2006-10-19 WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2006 — President Bush said in a one-on-one interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that a newspaper column comparing the current …
2005-09-17 … in the images of men shaving their beards and women dropping the burka to bask in the glow of freedom for the first time in more than a decade. Washington received European approval for its measured and successful execution of the war. The underestimation of U.S. capability and planning was quickly …
2009-04-02 … now.” Gingrich’s Wikipedia page already posts his religion as Roman Catholic. Writer Michael Novak and Cardinal McCarrick, the retired cardinal of Washington, were in attendance at Café Milano. Becoming Catholic isn’t simple. “It’s harder than becoming a Lutheran or a Methodist,” said Weber. “You go …
2009-02-21 … in the Senate and 41 in the House of Representatives, according to a newly released report by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Washington. Some of Jesuit alumni are new to Congress and a few are high-ranking members, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., House Minority …
2009-07-04 … hardline president lashed out anew at the United States and President Barack Obama on Saturday, accusing him of interference and suggesting that Washington’s stance on Iran’s postelection turmoil could imperil Obama’s aim of improving relations. “We are surprised at Mr. Obama,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said …
2007-02-01 … Thank you. Take that Boston. Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke praised Boston authorities for sharing their knowledge quickly with Washington officials and the public. "Hoaxes are a tremendous burden on local law enforcement and counter-terrorism resources and there's absolutely no place …
2009-07-08 … - from the US, and not the "sovereign" Iraqi government - to attack Iran. The fact remains that Bibi's government does not need a green light from Washington to attack Iran - regardless of the White House and the Office of the Vice President having to go into frantic turbo-spin mode about "tonal …
2009-06-23 … high-level rifts. “No one is very sure where it will go next,” said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington. But she says: “They have forced the regime to take a step back.” Despite that, the likelihood that Iran’s clergy-ruled system will undergo a …
2009-07-04 … in the use of civil disobedience destabilization techniques to bring down foreign governments. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington-Wall Street insiders’ group that brings together corporate CEOs and lawyers, scholars, and government and military officials to recommend foreign …
2009-03-16 … or Canvas. The group is funded in part by the International Republican Institute, which many describe as the international arm of the GOP, and Washington-based Freedom House, which receives most of its funding from the U.S. government” (12) and is interlocked with the CIA. (13) The other reason a …
2008-10-13 … in Belarus, train election monitors to discredit Belarus’s elections, and back civil society organizations opposed to the Lukashenko government. [2] Washington pledged nearly $12 million to Belarusian antigovernment forces to fight the March 2006 presidential election. [3] The opposition candidate, …
2008-09-30 … of his charges against US foreign policy targets in his longer articles, or has ever shown the slightest hint of scepticism regarding the charges Washington has levelled against “outposts of tyranny.” Instead, Zunes freely apes State Department rhetoric, defending from the left fundamental State …
2008-09-04 … military budget from $30 million to $1 billion per year, under its US-aligned president, Mikhail Saakashvili, relying on deep infusions of aid from Washington. [3] A country of only 8 million, Georgia had sent 2,000 troops to help US forces occupy Iraq, the third largest occupation force in the oil-rich …
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