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Will China Dump U.S. Debt?
The Chinese government, to which the United States is in debt approximately $1 trillion, is preparing to use its leverage to exact concessions...
Clinton Wants Closer NATO-Russia Ties
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, participating in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on March 5, invited her counterparts to make...
Read moreChavez Wins Referendum, Seizes Rice Processors
After waging a successful campaign to lift term limits in February, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is on a rampage. He recently sent the...
Read moreClinton Meets with Abbas
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) leaders in Ramallah, West Bank, on March 4, including Prime...
Read moreViolence in Mexico
A report released in January by the U.S. Joint Forces Command is warning of the potential for "rapid and sudden collapse" of the...
Read moreU.S. to Send $900 Million to Gaza and PNA
During a Gaza reconstruction conference held at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, on March 2, international donors pledged $4.481...
Read moreEconomics Trumps Human Rights During Clinton China Visit
In her first trip abroad since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton traveled to four Asian countries including China, the world's most populous...
Read moreObama’s Canada Visit Spotlights NAFTA
President Barack Obama made his first visit international trip as president on February 19, as he made a seven-hour visit to Canada’s capital...
Read moreU.S. Commander Predicts Long Afghanistan Stay
Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, predicted on February 18 that the additional 17,000 U.S. troops scheduled to...
Read moreObama’s Afghan Problem
President Barack Obama decided February 16 to send an additional 17,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, as part of his campaign promise to increase...
Read morePakistan Agrees to Taliban Haven in Swat Valley
The government of Pakistan announced on February 16 that it had agreed to accept a system of strict Islamic law, or sharia, in...
Read moreTalking With Iran’s Terror Regime
As Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Khomeini Revolution and the American hostage crisis, U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud...
Read moreBaghdad-Tehran Axis Grows
Less than two weeks after Iraq’s provincial elections, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki welcomed a large high-level delegation from Iran....
Read moreIraq Elections No Victory for U.S.
Provincial council elections in 14 of Iraq’s 18 provinces on January 31 strengthened Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party, a militant Shia Islamic...
Read moreChange Comes to Bolivia
Change is being implemented throughout the month of February in the latest South American country to lurch leftward. Voters in Bolivia approved a...
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