Senator Barack Obama insists he seeks a new foreign policy for America, but his comments tend to reflect what has been true of the world, not necessarily, what is emerging on the world scene. We believe a modern foreign policy must be centered in confronting modern and emerging issues rather than fighting with tools of [...]
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Celebrating the global success of Indian cinema, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said the soft power of India in some ways can be a very important instrument of foreign policy.
Hannes Artens at the Agonist has a great rundown of the precarious situation in Turkey, which nobody seems to be paying attention to:
The writing is on the wall. In Turkey, a storm is brewing that may plunge the country into its worst political crisis since the turbulent 1970s that were ended by a military coup in 1980. In an unexpectedly unrelenting and confrontational move the Turkish Constituti
Please join the YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN FOREIGN POLICY and Hosts Steven Andronico * Philipp Bleek * Anne Brady * David Burd * Samantha Dredge * Saul Garlick * Fletcher Gill * Rachel Hoff * Katherine Kennedy * Jennie Kim * Tim Lim * Chandler Lockhart * Tom Manatos * Joshua Marcuse * Elena McGovern * Kate Michael * Sean Oh * Victoria Palomo * Sergio Rodriguera * Tom Snedeker * Kristen Soltis * Pamela
Please join the YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN FOREIGN POLICY and Hosts Steven Andronico * Philipp Bleek * Anne Brady * David Burd * Samantha Dredge * Saul Garlick * Fletcher Gill * Rachel Hoff * Katherine Kennedy * Jennie Kim * Tim Lim * Chandler Lockhart * Tom Manatos * Joshua Marcuse * Elena McGovern * Kate Michael * Sean Oh * Victoria Palomo * Sergio Rodriguera * Tom Snedeker * Kristen Soltis * Pamela
A very important episode of the Dutch documentary program “Tegenlicht” about the Israel lobby in the United States of America.
This documentary (Aired April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt’s “The Israel Lobby” article. Featuring interviews with Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian an
Rizwan Ghani May 28, 2008 Pakistan´s PM Yousaf Raza Gillani has talked of building a sustainable relationship with America. Sec. Rice has grudgingly recognized role of winning hearts and minds in Islamabad´s struggle to secure peace in its northern areas. In a parallel development Russian president Medvedev in his statement, Russia-China ties key to global stability has supported
Yesterday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe former JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen joined former LBJ speechwriter Doris Kearns Goodwin for a discussion of the similarities between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy. For those less mindful of their history one could only sense that any such comparisons the two made favorably of Obama with Kennedy would redound [...]
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ABC News has an interesting piece out today detailing Barack Obama's "evolving" foreign policy stances, where he said one thing, then he changed it, then he changed it again.
Lets put some context to the article with relevant video interspersed of Obama's words, stated BY Obama himself.
ABC News:
Barack Obama's original answer seemed crystal clear: l
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For everyone who hasn’t read a book on the subject and wants to know why “terrorists” want to blow us up watch this.
The Dalai Lama (left) in Bejing with
Chairman Mao Zedong in 1954. The
world wants China to participate in
talks on Tibet but the regime calls
the Dalai Lama ‘a terrorist.’
I agree with John McCain and President Bush that not talking to a government is a legitimate foreign policy tactic, but only in certain circumstances… in fact, only in [...]
It's been said over and over again that foreign policy doesn't win elections. That might explain why both parties are so bad at it.
Nonetheless, foreign policy arguments sometimes enter national politics, as they did the other day during the uproar over Bush's appeasement comments.
It was heartening to see Obama strike back at Bush and McCain immediately and with great force. This kind of respon
Senator Barack Obama wasted no time responding to Bush’s attacks on his foreign policy positions. On Thursday, President Bush spoke before the Israeli Parliament and stopped just short of mentioning Obama by name in saying that those who negotiate with terrorists are appeasers. “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious ar
An episode of the Dutch documentary program "Tegenlicht" about the Israel lobby in the USA. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israel Lobby" article. Featuring interviews with Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy. 'Tegenlicht' ('Backlight') is a program from the Dutch VPRO public television.
Влиятельный американский журнал Foreign Policy опубликовал второй по счету рейтинг 100 интеллектуалов современного мира (The Top 100 Public Intellectuals), которые оказывают наибольшее влияние на человечество.
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Ron Paul has yet to endorse John McCain for the Republican nomination but over the weekend gave his input on the candidates. Paul was a Republican candidate for president and stayed in the race until John McCain had the number of delegates he needed to seal up the nomination. Paul was asked during debates if he would endorse the Republican candidate no matter who it was. Paul declined to do so on every opportunity. Ron Paul favors Barack Obama’s foreign policy, “But that doesn’t mean that’s an endorsement,” Paul quickly added. Obama’s foreign policy of opening relations with countries that the Bush administration has been “punishing” by cutting ties with is a large aspect of Obama’s popularity. Obama wants to end the war in Iraq and bring our tr
Not content to leave Tom Cruise alone in a self promotional Adwords Campaign, the American Government is buying Adwords units in defense of American Foreign Policy.
The ad (pictured right) reads “Peace & Security, Creating security through improved relations and cooperation” and links through to a page on America.gov with a motto of “Telling America’s Story.” [...]
~Snooper~I was scanning my Reader and ran a across a piece at CNN and saw it again at Memeorandum. Ron Paul, the guy that thinks he is a Constitutionalist because he can say and spell Constitution says that he likes Barack's Foreign Policy. Now, coming from a guy that espouses unconstitutional principles such as government funded health care for everyone, this presidential aspirant known as The Chief Paultard, that statement clarifies for all why this guy just needs to retire into the Great Abyss of Obscurity with the rest of the fruitloop brigades that seem to think they are someone to be taken seriously.The blurb at the CNN piece is fairly short so be sure to go there and read it. The man is certifiably insane. I place him in the same category as Jimmy Carter in quite a few areas, ma
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A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (Paperback)By Ron Paul
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pictured at left: Carter Secretary of State, Cy Vance
My secretary of state can beat up your foreign minister or Do Republican women read fitness magazines?
The news that Jimmy “I’ll Submit” Carter has scheduled a sit-down with Hamas (Carter to Meet Hamas Leader: Jazeera) reminds one of the whole difference in tone between the Carter years [...]
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. The words he used were not McCain’s own. They were in fact taken largely from a 1996 speech by ret. Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer.read more | digg story
Sen. John McCain, 71, touts his foreign policy credentials at every campaign event, and today he delivered a major foreign policy address before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
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John McCain has been portraying himself as the man with experience, after all, he has made more trips to Iraq than any other member of Congress. Senator McCain insists Barack Obama lacks his foreign policy experience and the United States needs someone as president who can make the right decisions when the phone rings at [...]
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC)Volume 5, Number 3, September 2008Call for papers: Media and Foreign PolicyEXTENDED Deadline: Friday 28 March 2008The role of the media in foreign policy-making remains one of the most neglected areas in foreign policy literature. Extensive research on the topic has only been conducted in the US and it has mainly emerged from the field of political communication.This literature suggests that coverage of international politics follows the frames of reference of either the executive branch of the government or reflects wider elite opinion in Washington when the elites disagree on the policy.However, in the absence of sufficient comparative research, it is unclear whether the findings and theories developed in the US have wider relevance i
Greg Craig, a senior foreign policy to Bill Clinton and now an adviser to Barack Obama was interviewed by National Journal and was asked about Hillary Clinton’s claims to experience in foreign policy. During the interview he summed up the limitations to her experience:
The point that I am making is that her claims of the [...]
Barack Obama has responded forcibly to Clinton’s claims of having experience at handling a foreign policy crisis. Many of the points are similar to those noted in previous posts here, such as this one from last Friday. Obama looks at several of the examples given of Clinton’s foreign policy experience and notes, “There is no [...]
None, nada, zip, zero, zilch. The Tribune calls her out on her lies about brokering peace in Northern Ireland and opening borders in Kosovo. Despite her claims, she played no role in either event.read more | digg story
Fortunately, right-wing tanks have been more successful at shifting the political landscape than those in the center or left, in part, because they are far better at attracting funds but more importantly, because American Interests are best served by them. U.S. Foreign Policy is influenced and shaped by a complex array of informal networks and Think Tanks that extend American Power and interests through the design and augmentation of a consensus consistent with, America’s worldview. Collectively they form a foremost source of ideas that are often weighted in the Washington policy making apparatus. In some ways, we may refer to them as both official and unofficial lobby groups and/or professional pressure groups that exert intellectual force on elected officialdom on a variety on issues.
AT THE ABCNEWS DEBATES... FOREIGN POLICY, IS ISSUE OF DEEP PASSION AND HEAVY COMPARISON. "There were times when we gave the world the impression that we were going to ignore what they thought or what they felt," said Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee of President Bush and his foreign policy. Huckabee was forced into defending his earlier remarks about the president, one of which called the president "arrogant". Huckabee even went so far as to attack Gov. Mitt Romney and said the former Massachussetts governor supported a 'timid withdrawal of U.S. troops' from Iraq.As usual McCain came out looking like the winner, at least on the foreign policy side of things, touting his initial calls for more U.S. troop deployment into Iraq, and his critisism of Rumsfeld. McCain even mentioned th
The video above is the most memorable portion of today’s Democratic debate. Des Moines Register Editor Carolyn Washburn asked Barack Obama how he’s going to deliver a break from the past when so many old Clinton foreign policy advisers are now advising him. Hillary received applause by saying, “I wanna hear that.” Obama won the exchange by responding, “Hillary, I’m looking forward to you advising me, as well. I want to gather up talent from everywhere.”
Texas Congressman Ron Paul told a full house at the Carson Nugget on Tuesday he believes Americans are finally seeing the nation needs to repair its foreign policy and begin restoring Constitutional liberties.read more | digg storyLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
The Israel Lobby, Israel’s role in the US occupation of Iraq … and its threats against Iran, they are all carefully explained by John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy in this audiocast from CHIASMOS.
A must listen for anyone interested in the Middle East and what is behind the current conflicts. It is roughly 1′30″, about 50-50 lecture and Q&As.
Go to: “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”
I've posted a letter at RedState, challenging someone there to represent the prevailing viewpoint in a real, substantive debate over the merits of Ron Paul's proposed foreign policy of non-intervention.I've posed the following assertion to start things off:It is in our best interests as a nation to remove our troops as soon as possible from Iraq and to implement a foreign policy which does not employ our military forces except when there is clear and present danger of imminent attack or Congress has found sufficient justification to make a declaration of war.Let's see how it goes.
Since I'm a "Walk softly and carry a big stick." kind of guy I have to admit this has a certain appeal to me.From the Union Leader:It is not we non-interventionists who are isolationsists. The real isolationists are those who impose sanctions and embargoes on countries and peoples across the globe because they disagree with the internal and foreign policies of their leaders. The real isolationists are those who choose to use force overseas to promote democracy, rather than seek change through diplomacy, engagement, and by setting a positive example. I do not believe that ideas have an expiration date, or that their value can be gauged by their novelty. The test for new and old is that of wisdom and experience, or as the editors wrote "historical reality," which argues passionately now against the course of anti-Constitutional interventionism.A Paul administration would see Americans engaged overseas like never before, in business and cultural activities. But a Paul administration woul
As if Richard Dawkins wasn't controversial enough, he has now been quoted as saying,When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told -- religious Jews anyway -- than atheists and [yet they] more or less monopolize American foreign policy as far as many people can see.Not surprisingly, this is quickly becoming a hot topic throughout the blogosphere. The outrage has began, anti-Semitism has been suggested, and I predict Dawkins will be called a Nazi by the middle of next week.Tags: Richard Dawkins, Jewish lobby, America, atheist
On August 23, 2007, Barack Obama appeared on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. The question of his experience on foreign policy was asked. In the opening of the show there was a piece that Jon did called “Billions and Billions” that perfectly described our past foreign policy blunders in the Middle East and why this “experience” maybe useless. Stewart started out with a news piece announcing that the United States was going to sell $20 billion dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia to the royal family. Stewart stated that it was ok though because “a full 20 percent of the 9/11 hijackers were NOT from there”.Stewart also pointed out that Saudi Arabia sponsored Hamas in the past by holding a telethon for them. This would cause a problem with Israel but the White House announced that they would increase aid to Israel by 25 percent, nearly 30 billion dollars. “Oh billions of dollars, is there no dispute you can’t solve.” Stewart said.He was quick to also point out
Here is an advanced appraisal of how the surge has gone in Iraq and just how much this is Bush’s war.
The source, Foreign Policy, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the experts polled on May 23 to June 26 included former government officials in senior positions including secretary of state, White House national security adviser and top military commanders. Reported by Reuters in an article entitled U.S. foreign policy experts oppose surge
• 53% of the experts polled by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress said they now oppose Bush’s troop build-up
• that is a 22% point jump since the strategy was announced early this year
• two-thirds of conservatives saying it has been ineffective or made things worse in Iraq.
• seven of 10 experts supported the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq. Experts have increasingly cited the war as the root cause of what they believe to be U.S. failure to win in its war on terro
Too many politicians have no sense of shame; they will do or say anything to win votes.
Sen. Barack Obama is a breath of fresh air; he speaks from his heart and as a result sometimes he makes comments that aren’t crystal clear.
Obama has been ruthlessly attacked by Republicans and even by his Democratic presidential rivals for some [...]
Ron Paul recently appeared on the Mike Gallagher radio show, during which Mr. Gallagher asked him whether he thought most of his support was coming from those who believe the assertion that 9/11 was a government conspiracy. It's an absurd claim that Paul has never come close to making, so the latent insinuation embedded in the question is very strange. Paul isn't accusing anyone of wanting attacks to happen or of actually "staging" them. What he has said in essence is that there is a propensity for politicians and military leaders to see what they want to see and to capitalize on incidents - real or perceived - after the fact to ratchet up to larger goals. Giuliani didn't stage 9-11 but "America's Mayor" has certainly taken advantage of it to the fullest extent.I was among those who, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, found some currency in the idea that we should go into Iraq if they had a bomb and could be dealing with al-Qaeda. Neither turned out to be true, and senior official
Tucker Carlson talks to Ron Paul on the issues dealing with foreign policy. Carlson gets Ron Paul’s views on the war in Iraq and Al Qaeda. Specifically dealing with how he feels about President Bush’s comments that Al Qaeda will “fill the void” if the US troops were to pull out of Iraq.
Shillong, June 16 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday took India’s foreign policy to the people by calling for evolving a mechanism in which civil society is involved in framing foreign policies for strengthening bilateral and regional ties, especially to boost India’s ‘Look East’ policy.
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Foreign Policy in Focus: Fixing IraqExcerpt:" Between revenue from oil exports and foreign aid, over $100 billion has been pledged to Iraq’s “relief and reconstruction” in the last four years. Yet there is precious little to show for it. About half of this amount is Iraq’s own money. The United States has allocated a total of $38.28 billion in aid as of the end of 2006, but only $12 billion has been spent on civilian reconstruction with most it going to the Iraqi army and police. Other donors have pledged just over $15 billion, but most of this has not been delivered because of the chaos and violence in the country.The amount of money spent on reconstruction is not at all trifling. It is equal or greater than the money in inflation-adjusted dollars spent by the United States on restoring post-Nazi Europe under the Marshall plan. There are, of course, clear differences between the Iraqi and German experience, as there was less violence and the Europeans were allowed to plan thei
At a speech on foreign policy Mitt Romney blasted Nancy Pelosi for her trip to Syria saying “And then the Speaker of the House helped dignify a state sponsor of terror,” among other things.
He also stands behind the president on his Iraq war policy, which I like, but his campaign seems to be floundering and I don’t think he will be able to regain momentum. If he ever really had momentum.
He could surprise though, he did raise allot of money so there has to be support out there for him.
It seems as though his flip flopping is going to catch up with him, and this hunting fiasco might hurt him, but I do like his stance on national defense.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria seems to have started a chain of non-State Department officials directly engaging in foreign policy. Gov. Bill Richardson (D) has just gone to North Korea to claim the remains of American soliders from the Korean War (backed by the Bush administration unlike Pelosi's visit). Newt Gingrinch (R), former Speaker of the House, calls Pelosi's and Richardson's visit to these foreign nations dangerous. Breaking with tradition of letting the President's administration handle the foreign diplomacy, he says these leaders have begun to create their own foreign policy agenda for personal gain. While nothing bars them from engaging in talks with other nations, it certainly can demonstrate a divided US government, a sign of weakness to other foreign nations.Do you
In a slap in the face of President Bush's "I'm too good to talk to you" foreign policy stance, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is heading to Syria next week to visit with President Basher al-Assad. The White House doesn't want her to go, and is "discouraging the visit," but Pelosi will go anyway.While I'm not a big fan of Syria, specifically because of their support for Hamas, Hezbollah and how they like to screw with the Lebanese government, diplomacy does not hurt. President Bush's "no diplomacy foreign policy" has not gotten us anywhere except on the rest of the world's shit list, so what can it hurt if Pelosi tries this?It is, by the way, encouraged by the Iraq Study Group that we do talk to some of the powers in the region, including Syria and Iran, to put together a solution in Iraq, and if we've learned anything from Iraq, it's that bombing everyone who disagrees with us back to the stone age doesn't bring about change, despite the fact that it may seem like the easy solution. Blo
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It's a bit too corny for my tastes. It's a video about a group called the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism that conducted a live poll about whether people thought Harper's government had been "naughty" or "nice".
I was proud to serve my country as a Paramedic in The United States Air Force during the first Gulf War.I am proud today of each and every service member serving in the United States Armed Forces.As a civilian now, it is my duty to use my voice to speak out with other veterans against putting soldiers in harms way as a means to an unjust end.America's sons and daughters as well as untold numbers of Iraqis have died and are dying right now as a direct result of our trusting an administration that has cleaned out the treasury and handed over the cash to their preferred corporate partners who then failed to deliver anything of substance to stabilize Iraq when the opportunity was there to do so.I believe those who have given their lives for their country would expect us to honor them by exercising our duty as Americans to question the motives and the actions of the power that asked of them the ultimate sacrifice. These soldiers deserve to have those of us who are free to speak and act cha
