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POLITICS-US: Neo-Cons Move to Preempt Baker Report
To have read the neo-conservative press here over the past month, one would think that former Secretary of State James Baker poses the biggest threat to the United States and Israel since Saddam Hussein.POLITICS-US: Bolton Resigns in New Defeat for Hawks
In a new blow to the dwindling number of hawks in top administration positions, U.S. President George W. Bush Monday accepted the resignation of his ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.RIGHTS-US: Bush Moves to End Anti-ICC Penalties
In a new, if largely unheralded, sign of a growing pragmatism in U.S. foreign policy, President George W. Bush this week waived Congressional restrictions on economic aid for countries that have refused to sign bilateral immunity agreements (BIAs) exempting U.S. citizens from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).POLITICS-US: Bush Seems Determined to Stay the Course
Despite a growing and virtually universal consensus both here and abroad that the United States must engage Syria and Iran if it hopes to stabilise Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush appears determined to ignore Baghdad's two key neighbours as long as possible.SOMALIA: U.S.-Backed U.N. Resolution Risks Wider War
Fearful that Islamist forces are transforming Somalia into a safe haven for al Qaeda, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is pushing a new U.N. Security Council resolution that experts here believe could well spark a wider war in the Horn of Africa.SOMALIA: U.S.-Backed U.N. Resolution Risks Wider War
Fearful that Islamist forces are transforming Somalia into a safe haven for al Qaeda, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is pushing a new U.N. Security Council resolution that experts here believe could well spark a wider war in the Horn of Africa.POLITICS: US Foreign Policy Set to Change Dramatically
The abrupt replacement of Pentagon chief, Donald Rumsfeld, by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Robert Gates, combined with the Democratic sweep in Tuesday's mid-term elections, appears to signal major changes in United States foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East.POLITICS-US: Neo-Con Nadir?
Less than a week from mid-term elections that are expected to bring at least one house of Congress under Democratic control, neo-conservatives, whose foreign policy ideas dominated most of the first half of the administration of U.S. George W. Bush, are having a hard time.POLITICS-US: Neo-Con Nadir?
Less than a week from mid-term elections that are expected to bring at least one house of Congress under Democratic control, neo-conservatives, whose foreign policy ideas dominated most of the first half of the administration of George W. Bush, are having a hard time.POLITICS-US: Hillary Urges Talks with Syria, Iran, North Korea
In a major policy address, Sen. Hillary Clinton Tuesday called for a "sea change" in U.S. foreign policy that would include direct talks with Syria, Iran and North Korea and greater U.S. engagement in promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.POLITICS-US: Jews Give Bush, Republicans Failing Grades
Despite Republican efforts, led by President George W. Bush, to align the party squarely behind the policies of successive right-wing governments in Israel, U.S. Jews are expected to vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates in next week's elections.TRADE: Russia Now Biggest Arms Seller to Developing World
For the first time in the last eight years, Russia surpassed the United States in the value of new arms agreements with developing countries in 2005, with seven billion dollars in sales, or about one quarter of a 30-billion-dollar market last year, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).POLITICS-US: Bush Under Growing Pressure to Engage Syria
While U.S. President George W. Bush appeared this week to reject suggestions that Washington directly engage the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pressure both here and in the region for Washington to work out some accommodation with Damascus is rising.MIDEAST: 50 Years After Suez, U.S. Hegemony Ebbing Fast
As the Middle East prepares to mark the 50th anniversary on Oct. 29 of the Suez Crisis that effectively ended European colonialism, a half century of U.S. hegemony in the region also appears to be coming to an end, according to a growing number of analysts here.ECONOMY-US: Promise of Biofuels Boom Is Overrated, Report Says
Despite an explosion of private investment in the U.S. liquid biofuels industry, taxpayers are contributing around seven billion dollars a year in subsidies which could be better used for other energy- and environment-saving technologies, according to a major new report released here Wednesday.POLITICS-US: Muslim and Arab Americans Ditch Republicans
Increasingly disillusioned with more than five years of the "global war on terror", Arab- and Muslim-American voters are poised to vote heavily Democratic in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections, according to two polls released this week.POLITICS-US: Muslim and Arab Americans Ditch Republicans
Increasingly disillusioned with more than five years of the "global war on terror", Arab- and Muslim-American voters are poised to vote heavily Democratic in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections, according to two polls released this week.IRAQ/U.S.: A Consensus Develops: Leave the Course
While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's continued tenure in office has been the subject of a surge of speculation over the past week, it may be George W. Bush's continued reign - at least over Iraq policy -¬ that appears most endangered at the moment.POLITICS-US: Public Wants “New Approach” on Foreign Policy
More than 70 percent of the U.S. public, including nearly half of self-identified Republicans, say they prefer candidates for Congress in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections who will pursue a "new approach" to U.S. foreign policy, according to a new survey released here Friday by the Programme on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).POLITICS-US: Poll Finds Growing Anxiety About World Affairs
Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the U.S. public has become increasingly anxious about world events and the role that their country is playing in them, according to the latest "Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy" survey released here Wednesday by a non-partisan group, Public Agenda, and Foreign Affairs journal.POLITICS: Iraqi Endgame Approaching, Bush Ready or Not
If Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki were inclined to bet his life on President George W. Bush's latest assurances that there will be no timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, he should probably give it a second thought.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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