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Review: A View of American Foreign Policy in Breadth
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr, Doubleday, 320 pages
NYT on Chemical Weapons and War in Syria
By Michael McGehee | NYTX | May 6, 2013
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of weapons moving around or being utilized.” — Obama Threatens Force Against Syria, The New York Times, August 21, 2012
Howard Kurtz’s Belated Comeuppance
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | May 3, 2013
For nearly a quarter century, Howard Kurtz has served as hall monitor for Washington’s conventional wisdom, handing out demerits to independent-minded journalists who don’t abide by the mainstream rules. So, there is some understandable pleasure seeing Kurtz face some accountability in his ouster as bureau chief for Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
U.S., British Defense Chiefs Mull Arming Syrian Insurgents
Stars and Stripes
May 2, 2013
Hagel, British official say Obama ‘rethinking’ arming Syrian rebels
By Chris Carroll
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is rethinking its stance of not arming Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
Obama condemns indefinite detention (and himself)
By Charles Davis | false dichotomy | April 30, 2013
US President Barack Obama today condemned the Guantanamo Bay prison camp run by US President Barack Obama, channeling the moral outrage last heard on the 2008 campaign trail.
Turkish-Kurdish Reconciliation: What Happens After the Fighters Withdraw?
By Hüsnü Mahalli | Al-Akhbar | April 29, 2013
Istanbul – At a press conference attended by nearly a hundred Turkish and foreign reporters, Murat Karayilan, acting leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), announced his group’s plan for reconciliation with the Turkish government.
Biden, Saakashvili Discuss Georgia’s NATO Accession
Civil Georgia
April 27, 2013
Saakashvili Meets Biden
Sociopaths sharing a smile (file photograph)
Tbilisi: President Saakashvili met U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on April 26 at the Sedona Forum, an annual event organized by the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Sedona, Arizona.
