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POLITICS-US: Realists Rule?
Is realism finally, definitively, back in the driver's seat of U.S. foreign policy?POLITICS-US: Has the “Tipping Point” on Iraq Been Reached?
Has the U.S. public lost so much confidence in the George W. Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war that its current strategy - to the extent one actually exists - is unsustainable?POLITICS-US: Has the “Tipping Point” on Iraq Been Reached?
Has the U.S. public lost so much confidence in the George W. Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war that its current strategy - to the extent one actually exists - is unsustainable?POLITICS-US: Reviving the "Radical Centre"
As U.S. President George W. Bush announced the unprecedented "recess appointment" of ultra-nationalist John Bolton as his next ambassador to the United Nations, a group of diplomatic heavyweights was preparing to launch a bipartisan coalition to promote a return to a more moderate and multilateral foreign policy.POLITICS-US: Group Slams the "Iron Triangle" of Food Aid
U.S. food aid is inefficient, wasteful and designed in most cases to benefit domestic constituencies, particularly U.S.-based agribusiness firms, shipping companies and some non-governmental organisations (NGOs), more than needy people in developing countries, according to a new report released this week by the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).POLITICS-US: Experts Urge More Attention to "Nation-Building"
In light of its continuing travails in Iraq, the U.S. government, particularly the Department of Defence, must place "nation-building" on a par with war-fighting as a top priority in protecting national security, according to a major new report released here Wednesday by a bipartisan task force chaired by two former national security advisers.HEALTH: Activists See CAFTA as Gift to Big Pharma
With the U.S. House of Representatives due to vote this week on the fate of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), international health activists are warning that the intellectual property provisions included in the pact could spell death for hundreds of thousands of poor people.U.S.: Civil War Spectre Spurs New Iraq Exit Plans
Growing pessimism about averting civil war in Iraq, as well as mounting concerns that the U.S. military presence there may itself be fuelling the insurgency and Islamist extremism worldwide, has spurred a spate of new calls for the United States to withdraw its 140,000 troops sooner rather than later.POLITICS-US: Civil War Spectre Spurs New Iraq Exit Plans
Growing pessimism about averting civil war in Iraq, as well as mounting concerns that the U.S. military presence there may itself be fuelling the insurgency and Islamist extremism worldwide, has spurred a spate of new calls for the United States to withdraw its 140,000 troops sooner rather than later.POLITICS-US/KOREA: Much at Stake on Eve of Six-Party Talks
Is U.S. President George W. Bush at last ready to deal with the third charter member of his "Axis of Evil," thus giving up his dreams of "regime change" in North Korea?POLITICS-US: Iraq Seen as Weakening Terror War
A plurality of the U.S. public now believes that Iraq war has undermined U.S. prospects for victory in the larger war on terrorism, but a majority still believe that Washington should not yet begin withdrawing its troops, according to major new poll released here Thursday shortly after Britain reported four new bombing incidents in London.POLITICS: Iran Sits Pretty in World’s Hottest Region
Despite the best efforts of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to make Iran an international pariah, the Islamic Republic keeps wracking up one diplomatic victory after another.POLITICS-U.S.: Upgraded Ties with India Roil Strategic Waters
This week's agreement by U.S. President George W. Bush to sell advanced nuclear technology to India confirms a major policy shift with global as well as regional implications, according to experts here.POLITICS-US: Upgraded Ties with India Roil Strategic Waters
This week's agreement by U.S. President George W. Bush to sell advanced nuclear technology to India, coming three weeks after the signing of a 10-year bilateral defence agreement that makes New Delhi eligible to buy sophisticated U.S. military equipment, confirms a major policy shift with global as well as regional implications, according to experts here.POLITICS-US: "PlameGate" Is Hardly a Summer Squall
While to people living outside the Washington "Beltway," the current affair over the disclosure by top White House officials of the identity of a covert intelligence officer may seem somewhat esoteric, the stakes could not be higher.POLITICS-US: Welcome to RightWorld
It's always difficult to play defence and offence at the same time, but when the geo-political ground is shifting beneath one's feet and damaging leaks are spurting out of the White House and Downing Street plumbing like Fourth of July fireworks, it's more difficult than usual.POLITICS-US: Welcome to RightWorld
It's always difficult to play defence and offence at the same time, but when the geo-political ground is shifting beneath one's feet and damaging leaks are spurting out of the White House and Downing Street plumbing like Fourth of July fireworks, it's more difficult than usual.POLITICS-LATIN AMERICA: Democracy, Hemispheric Ties Faltering
While Latin America has been enjoying its best economic performance in years, its democratic institutions and ties to the United States are faltering, according to a new report by the Inter-American Dialogue (IAD), a Washington-based think tank.POLITICS: "Islamic Extremism" Alienates Most in Muslim World
Concerns about "Islamic extremism" and disapproval over violence motivated by it are growing in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries, according to a major new survey that also found declining support for Osama bin Laden in most of the Islamic world, with the exception of Jordan and Pakistan.POLITICS-US: "Bush’s Brain" Besieged
Battered by sagging poll numbers, new doubts in the aftermath of the London bombings about the effectiveness of its war on terrorism, and no let-up in the bad news out of Iraq, the White House has found itself this week embroiled in yet another controversy, one that threatens the credibility, if not the tenure, of the man widely known as Pres. George W. Bush's "brain."MEDIA-US: Michael Jackson Easily Trumps Darfur on Nightly News
U.S. broadcast media are failing to provide even minimal coverage of the ongoing crisis - some say genocide - in Darfur, Sudan, according to a new report, which concludes that media fixation with celebrity, as well as the Iraq war, is crowding out news of important events that deserve global attention 10 years after the genocide in Rwanda.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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