Archive for Category: "Foreign Policy"

November 1, 2010 11:56

UK PM urges Arab world to ‘cut out terrorist cancer’

The Arab world needs to “cut out the terrorist cancer” that lurks in the region in the wake of the renewed threat from the al-Qaeda parcel bomb plot, David Cameron told MPs.

November 1, 2010 05:11

US to step up military operations in Yemen

Is Obama starting a new war?

October 29, 2010 06:47

All Quiet on the Black-Ops Front

I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?

October 27, 2010 05:28

Mexico’s Calderon: US consumption fuels drug war

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fueling violence in Mexico.

October 26, 2010 09:01

Chavez Orders Expropriation of Owens-Illinois

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday ordered the expropriation of U.S.-based glass maker Owens-Illinois Inc.’s unit in the South American country.

October 25, 2010 05:41

Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan makes weird global warming claims says Sen. Inhofe.

For some, global warming is the sinister cause of every problem plaguing the world-even the conflict between India and Pakistan.

October 25, 2010 05:01

Karzai confirms cash payments from Iran

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has acknowledged that his office has received cash from Iran, but insists it was part of a “transparent” process. I wonder if he defines ‘transparency’ the way Obama does.

October 21, 2010 09:34

U.S.-Led Forces Chase Taliban From Kandahar

A military offensive in southern Afghanistan is chasing the Taliban out of their stronghold in Kandahar province, the Afghan president’s half brother said.

October 21, 2010 05:24

A Nuclear Chavez Gets Obama’s OK

Not since the days of Jimmy Carter have we seen as craven a U.S. response to a provocation as Chavez’s plan for two 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors 1,400 miles from our shores.

October 21, 2010 04:54

Spending Review: Osborne defends ‘fairness’ of cuts

He said “the path to economic ruin” lay ahead if the deficit was not tackled. Seems like we’ve been hearing that a lot on this side of the Atlantic.