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TDGoddard
TDGoddard posted a blog entry
Obama Lunches with Writers
Before his Afghanistan speech, President Obama had lunch with a group of top political writers at the White House, Politico...
29 minutes ago Political Wire | Topics: Foreign...
 
Steven
Steven posted a blog entry
Obama’s Return To Reality
I guess we’re fresh out of unicorns and rainbows and claims to have improved America’s standing in the world...
8 hours ago qando | Topics: Bruce McQuain, Foreign..., Obama..., Polling
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Pragati December 2009: Where India stands on climate change
The image on the cover of this month’s issue of Pragati is a painting by Azmat Ali that expresses the complexities...
 
Waddie
Waddie posted a blog entry
Obama Afghanistan Speech (Live Video Live Blogging Event)
Now that the POTUS has finally decided to partially accept the advice of his Generals and send troops to Afghanistan, it...
 
flogust
flogust posted a tweet
RT @newsfeeding: Palin Going Rogue on Foreign Policy: Palin's incompetence on foreign affairs is a global threat d... http://bit.ly/6bRixT
 
mico santos
mico santos posted a blog entry
International head of Greenpeace urges Key to Copenhagen
The International Executive Director of Greenpeace International Kumi Naodoo has written personally to Prime Minister John...
 
mico santos
mico santos posted a blog entry
URGENT APPEAL FOR JUSTICE
I received an email from our friends from MIGRANTE AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND urging groups abroad also write to  the...
1 day ago rePress | Topics: Foreign..., News and Current...
 
mico santos
mico santos posted a blog entry
NEW ZEALAND SET TO STAR ON SILVER SCREEN
New Zealand will be the star of a new project that’s offering aspiring film-makers the chance to get their work in front of...
2 days ago rePress | Topics: Foreign..., News and Current...
 
HPB
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Iran Thumbs Its Nose At The Rest Of The World (update)
Well, so far this new policy of “engagement” is paying off handsomely with Iran. Here’s how they unclench their fist:Iran’s government will build 10 new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday, a dramatic expansion of...
 
Curly
Curly posted a blog entry
Rise of the little big man
Little Sarkozy is feeling pretty big now!I don’t know whether to laugh or cry :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ...
 
jpetty
jpetty posted a blog entry
The experience of one Irish family
A comment posted at Pam's House Blend: My mother and her sisters were removed from their mother's home when a parish priest...
 
jpetty
jpetty posted a blog entry
Ireland again roiled by child abuse report
Ireland's Department of Justice released the report of its special Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese...
 
agharass
agharass posted a blog entry
[Sondage] Minarets en Europe, votre avis ?
Le gouvernement suisse s’est opposé à cette interdiction. Il rappelle la tolérance mais il n’oublie pas aussi le...
4 days ago le blog de Agharass | Topics: Foreign..., Pics
 
Curly
Curly posted a blog entry
Does our Foreign policy lead to torture?
Human Rights Watch condemns British role in PakistanWhilst David Miliband the Foreign Secretary and South Shields MP battle...
 
Mideast Y
Mideast Y posted a blog entry
Green Movement supports sanctions on Iran?
I just read a Time article which discussed the Green Movement reaching out to the US for help. Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who...
 
Raven1229
Raven1229 posted a blog entry
Links and Thanksgiving
Pretty soon I’ll be running down to Virginia to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. As usual, this will involve lots of...
 
Jillmz
Jillmz posted a blog entry
As a Student of Realpolitik, Obama’s Catching On Fast: Dziennik, Poland
In the realm of getting the job done – principle be damned – how is President Obama doing? According to columnist...
 
TDGoddard
TDGoddard posted a blog entry
Holbrooke Goes Skiing
Just as President Obama's new Aghanistan policy is set to be unveiled next week, Ben Smith reports Special Envoy Richard...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Now China wants to divide up the sea
Maritime territorialism is a bad idea—but it might signal something worseRory Medcalf, over at the Lowy Interpreter...
 
Jillmz
Jillmz posted a blog entry
Why Rising China Can’t Compete With the ‘American Dream’: La Tribune, France
OBAMA, HU JINTAO AND NEWLY-APPOINTED E.U. PRESIDENT, HERMAN VAN ROMPUYContinuing with our theme tonight about whether the...
 
Tom Usher
Tom Usher posted a blog entry
THE STORY ON RACIST RABBI YITZHAK SHAPIRA CONTINUES
I was immediately compelled by the Holy Spirit to reinforce the calls for peace made by an atheist on Facebook in her argument...
 
MandysRoyalty
MandysRoyalty posted a tweet
RT @foreignoffice: David Miliband's opening statement for the Queen's Speech debate today covering foreign affairs: http://ow.ly/EWgf
 
Jillmz
Jillmz posted a blog entry
Walters should’ve followed up, Palin should have boned up re: Jews “flocking” idea
Somehow I missed Sarah Palin’s proclamation, in an interview with Barbara Walters last week, that Jews are flocking to...
 
Jillmz
Jillmz posted a blog entry
Obama’s China Trip Announces a ‘World Without Leadership’: Financial Times Deutschland, Germany
Now that we’ve gotten some of the Chinese reaction to president Obama’s trip, it’s time to start sampling the...
 
miamitom
miamitom posted a blog entry
Support for blogger is sought in Spain
The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Congress next Wednesday will debate a motion of support for Cuban blogger Yoani...
 
Jillmz
Jillmz posted a blog entry
The Hidden ‘Arrogance’ Behind Obama’s Royal Bow: Global Geographic Times, China
What is the significance of President Obama’s habit of bowing to foreign royalty? Continuing with our coverage of...
 
Jillmz
Jillmz posted a blog entry
Addiction to Growth is China’s ‘Berlin Wall’: Global Geographic Times, People’s Republic of China
Can President Obama persuade China not to be so dependent on growth, particularly trade-dependent growth? Likening...
 
Curly
Curly posted a blog entry
Top Euro amnesiacs
Van Rumpy Pumpy and Baroness CashTon take top jobs in EUApparently it was not a fudge and she is the best person for the...
 
Erik Hare
Erik Hare posted a tweet
RT @bbcworld Labour peer Baroness Ashton has been selected as the EU's representative of foreign affairs and security http://bit.ly/40GbCr
 
Joe Litobarski
Joe Litobarski posted a tweet
RT @Nosemonkey Ashton for Foreign Affairs guarantees no EU foreign policy; Van Rompuy as Council President means it's utterly powerless.
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Brzezinski & Obama’s bipolar disorder
The world doesn’t become bipolar by wishing that it isZbigniew Brzezinski, like many others who came of age during the...
13 days ago Current Issues | Topics: Foreign..., China, India, Iran
 
jpetty
jpetty posted a blog entry
Priest plans marriage, Irish Catholics applaud
Father Sean McKenna, parish priest at Holy Family Catholic Church in Ballymagriorty, Ireland, told his parishioners that he had...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
What’s R&AW doing in the United States?
India must expand its intelligence capacity in Western countriesUntil US authorities arrested David Coleman Headley/Dawood...
15 days ago Current Issues | Topics: Foreign..., Security, Chicago, India
 
lgstarr
lgstarr posted a blog entry
Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot
So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of...
 
agharass
agharass posted a blog entry
[Sondage] Une guerre pour un Week-End en Afrique ?
T’es fan de ce ballon rempli d’air n’est pas une nouveauté, t’es marocain mais tu vois dans ce match...
15 days ago le blog de Agharass | Topics: A la une, Foreign...
 
agharass
agharass posted a blog entry
Ya Lmissri Rbate Slougia 3afak… !
كشف الداعية المصري الشيخ خالد الجندي أنه اتفق مع المنتخب المصري على...
16 days ago le blog de Agharass | Topics: A la une, Foreign...
 
LooseKannon
LooseKannon posted a blog entry
Jury’s In-NYC Terror Trial Naive and Dangerous
editor’s note: this is a transcript of the LK PodKast that will be up on the site later today.  We wanted to get the...
16 days ago LooseKannon | Topics: Blog, Featured, Foreign..., Politics
 
Mideast Y
Mideast Y posted a blog entry
Palestine: Birth Pains of a Nation
This post includes information drawn from Shlomo Maital who wrote an article entitled The Palestinian (Almost) State.As...
 
Waddie
Waddie posted a blog entry
Obama Bows Again: Japans Emperor This Time
On his trip to Japan, President Obama has thrown protocol out the window once again as he bowed to Japans Emperor Akihito. The...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
The probability of not suspecting David Headley
A 250-fold improvement in obfuscationIn Superfreakonomics, the sequel to their first book, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner...
18 days ago Current Issues | Topics: Foreign...
 
<em>maninhavana</em>
maninhavana posted a blog entry
Former drug czar and former Interests Section chief to testify
The date of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting on Cuba has been changed from Nov. 18 to Nov. 19. Witnesses...
 
Sean Weide
Sean Weide posted a tweet
Foreign affairs, crime and natural disasters are the dominate news topics today. Health care and health issues make up only 4%.
 
Curly
Curly posted a blog entry
Miliband again turns blind eye to human rights
British Indian Ocean Territory “consultation”So the Foreign Secretary and South Shields MP wants to help create a...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Crown Jewel Panic
Joint India-US planning is a must given the asymmetric risks of snatch operationsThe only interesting new thing in Seymour...
 
jpetty
jpetty posted a blog entry
Russian Orthodox Church doesn't want to, and doesn't know how, to talk with women
The Russian Orthodox Church has been in dialog with German Lutherans for 50 years, but now that the Germans have a woman...
 
Robby Cruz
Robby Cruz posted a tweet
BANTAY PINAS: Sec. Hillary Clinton and Foreign Affairs Secretary Albento Romulo going to Goldenberg Mansion
 
agharass
agharass posted a blog entry
BRAQUO avec un Voile, c’est original !
La police marseillaise fait part mercredi 11 novembre d’un braquage dans des conditions rocambolesques. Les braqueurs...
20 days ago le blog de Agharass | Topics: A la une, Foreign...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Ruddying relations
A closer strategic India-Australia relationship—the “how”The Lowy Institute has released an excellent policy...
 
jpetty
jpetty posted a blog entry