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Archive for Category: "Foreign Policy"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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’.
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.”
Controlling you by limiting choices
Glenn Beck explains how the administration is ‘nudging’ society toward redistribution of wealth and global governance.