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POLITICS-US/CUBA: Foes of Embargo See Hope in New Congress
A bipartisan coalition of U.S. lawmakers who favour an easing of the nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba say the new Democrat-led Congress offers hope for progress this year.POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Bush Isolates Himself Further
President George W. Bush's decision to escalate U.S. military intervention in Iraq and issue new threats against Syria and Iran appears to have left him politically more isolated than ever.RIGHTS: EU Urged to Fill Global Leadership Void
With Washington's reputation as a leader on human rights gravely damaged by abuses committed in its five-year-old "global war on terror", the European Union (EU) remains the only credible candidate for filling the vacuum, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.POLITICS-US: Hardliner’s Hardliner Led Bush’s Iraq Review
When President George W. Bush's unveils his long-awaited new strategy on Iraq Wednesday night, he will be relying heavily on the counsel of one J.D. Crouch II, perhaps the most hard line - if most obscure - of his hawkish advisers.POLITICS: Latin American Elites More Doubtful of U.S.
Elites in the major countries of Latin America are increasingly bullish about their nations' economies and increasingly alienated from the United States, according to a new survey by Zogby International and released this week by Newsweek magazine.POLITICS-US: Bush's Surge Strategy Faces Heavy Opposition
If, as expected, George W. Bush next week announces his intention to "surge" some 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq to pacify Baghdad and Sunni-dominated al-Anbar province, he may find himself in a tougher fight than he expected even a week ago.POLITICS-SOMALIA: Security Outlook Seen as Fragile
While U.S. officials were euphoric over last month's unexpectedly easy rout by Ethiopia and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of the Islamic Courts Union, scepticism that stability can be restored to the long-suffering African nation remains high.ENVIRONMENT: ExxonMobil Accused of Disinformation on Warming
Like the tobacco industry that for decades denied a link between smoking and lung cancer, ExxonMobil has waged a "sophisticated and successful disinformation campaign" to mislead the public about global warming, according to a major new report by the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).MEDIA-US: Networks’ Foreign News Coverage Focused on Iraq
For the fourth straight year, Iraq dominated foreign affairs coverage by the three major U.S. commercial television network evening news broadcasts during 2006, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.POLITICS-US: If Bush Wants Bipartisan Policy, It’s Out There
If U.S. President George W. Bush is serious about pursuing a foreign policy that can command bipartisan support, the basic elements of one already exists, according to a new analysis of seven comprehensive polls on foreign policy attitudes taken over the past nine months.CHALLENGES 2006-2007: A Bad Year for Empire
For those who believed that the precise and overwhelming demonstration of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iran would "shock and awe" the rest of the world - and particularly Washington's foes and aspiring rivals - into accepting its benevolent hegemony, 2006 was not a good year.POLITICS-US: The Urge to Surge
As official Washington breaks for the two-week Christmas-New Year's hiatus, it knows that the number one issue it will face on its return in early January is the White House's apparent "urge to surge" as many as 50,000 new troops into Iraq for up to two years in a last-ditch effort to claim what President George W. Bush insists on calling "victory".POLITICS-IRAQ: Crisis Group Seeks ‘Clean Break’ in US Strategy
Warning that Iraq faces ''complete disintegration into failed-state chaos,'' the International Crisis Group (ICG) is calling on the United States to make a ''clean break'' in its strategy for both Iraq and the wider Middle East region.POLITICS-US: Neo-Cons Wanted Israel to Attack Syria
Neo-conservative hawks in and outside the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush had hoped that Israel would attack Syria during last summer's Lebanon war, according to a newly published interview with a prominent neo-conservative whose spouse is a top Middle East adviser in Vice President Dick Cheney's office.AFGHANISTAN: Frustration Mounts With Pace of Rebuilding
Five years after the ouster of the Taliban, Afghans remain broadly supportive of their government and the western forces that protect it, but that support appears to be slipping due primarily to frustration with the pace of reconstruction, according to a new survey released here this week.POLITICS-US: Losing Arab Allies’ Hearts and Minds
Attitudes towards the United States reached new lows through most of the Arab world over the past year, according to the findings of a major new survey of five Arab countries released here Thursday by Zogby International and the Arab American Institute (AAI).POLITICS-US: Public Ever More Pessimistic on Iraq War
The findings of a spate of polls taken since last week's release of the Iraq Study Group's (ISG) recommendations for U.S. policy show a sharp drop in public confidence both in President George W. Bush's handling of the war and in the chances that the U.S. will prevail there.POLITICS-US: Public Found Likely to Support Baker Report
With the administration of President George W. Bush under mounting pressure to alter U.S. strategy in Iraq and the Middle East, a new public opinion survey quietly released this week found strong popular support for pursuing new diplomatic avenues as proposed by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG).POLITICS-US: ISG Report Faces Uncertain Future
One day after its official release, the package of 79 recommendations on U.S. Iraq and Middle East policy released Wednesday by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) faced a very uncertain future.POLITICS-US: Baker Group Urges Major Policy Overhaul
Calling the situation in Iraq "grave and deteriorating," the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) Wednesday urged a major overhaul of U.S. policies both in Iraq and the larger Middle East.POLITICS-US: Baker Group Urges Major Policy Overhaul
Calling the situation in Iraq "grave and deteriorating," the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) Wednesday urged a major overhaul of U.S. policies both in Iraq and the larger Middle East.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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