Archive for Category: "Foreign Policy"

September 30, 2010 13:55

Ecuador in chaos -UPDATE: US Embassy warns Americans

Police on strike, airports closed, Americans told to stay inside. Update 10-1: The airport has reopened

September 28, 2010 05:23

A nuclear Chavez?

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Monday that his government is carrying out initial studies into starting a nuclear energy program.

September 27, 2010 06:52

Curb Corruption or Lose the War

Association with the CIA has given some Afghan officials a sense of impunity, which threatens Gen. Petraeus’s hearts-and-minds effort.

September 27, 2010 05:28

Worm hits computers of staff at Iran nuclear plant

A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran’s first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday.

September 27, 2010 04:20

Drug cartels running Mexico?

Greta discusses the violence and the suppression of free press in Mexico. ‘The drug cartels are on the way to taking over Mexico’ says John Bolton.

September 27, 2010 03:58

Chavez foes advance in election

Chavez’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) still won a majority of seats in Sunday’s poll, but will now be unable to pass major legislation unaided.

September 26, 2010 12:27

Strange Coziness with neo-Soviet Russia

What we see before us is Vladimir Putin, dictator of Russia — murderer of journalists, liquidator of newspapers, invader of neighbors, despoiler of democracy — referring openly and “warmly” to the President of the United States as a “like-minded fellow.”

September 23, 2010 06:09

Bolton: Obama ‘divorced from the American people’

Former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton rips Obama’s politicizing of the Afghan war exposed in Woodward’s new book ‘Obama’s Wars’.

September 23, 2010 05:41

Petraeus: U.S. Won’t ‘Rush’ Out of Afghanistan

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan downplayed expectations Wednesday of plans to withdraw American troops from the war-torn country starting next year and described a major policy review ordered by President Obama as little more than a “mid-course assessment.”

September 23, 2010 04:20

Controlling you by limiting choices

Glenn Beck explains how the administration is ‘nudging’ society toward redistribution of wealth and global governance.