Foreign Policy
Some Trade Restrictions on Cuba to Be Lifted
The U.S. Congress has moved to lift some of the punitive economic measures the United States takes against Cuba. President Obama supports a...
The G20 Push to “Supersize” the IMF
The big push to “supersize” and transform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System has been developing in elite...
Read moreAgenda Behind Brown’s “Global New Deal”
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has been working tirelessly for months to promote world financial and economic governance under the pretext of...
Read moreObama’s “Transitional Force” for Iraq
“Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” President Barack Obama...
Read moreObama Bows to EU Demands on Stimulus
Caving in to pressure from the European Union, President Barack Obama signaled this week that he wanted “Buy American” provisions struck from the...
Read moreObama’s Interview with Al Arabiya
On the morning of Tuesday, January 27, President Barack Obama gave an interview with Al Arabiya, an Arab news network based out of...
Read moreUN Official Wants to Prosecute Bush, Rumsfeld for Torture
The UN's "Special Rapporteur on Torture," Manfred Nowak, in a message recorded on January 20 for broadcast that evening on Germany's ZDF television,...
Read moreExpect More Foreign War Under Obama
The Obama administration plans to increase overall troop commitments abroad this year, according to the Washington Post. The Obama administration has reportedly signed...
Read moreJoe Biden’s Trip to the Middle East
Vice President-elect Joseph Biden arrived in Baghdad on January 12 for an unannounced visit. It was part of a three-nation Asian tour for...
Read moreMore Covert War Against Iran
The United States has escalated its covert war against Iran, the New York Times reported on January 10. The article reported that the...
Read moreKissinger, Putin, and the “New World Order”
Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, has declared that "you don't ever want a crisis to go to waste." As reported...
Read moreBush Says Saddam Hussein Was Not Connected to 9/11
Addressing the Saban Forum on December 5, President George W. Bush stated: "It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein...
Read moreRice Consoles Indians, Admonishes Pakistanis
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, India, on December 3, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Pakistan must act "fully and transparently"...
Read moreObama’s Choice of Hillary Clinton Signals He’s Not Anti-War
The one aspect of the Obama campaign that was arguably laudable and comparatively better than the McCain campaign was Obama's skepticism of the...
Read moreObama Adviser Brzezinski’s Off-the-record Speech to British Elites
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama on matters of national security and foreign policy, was the featured speaker at Chatham...
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