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UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY ON MILITARY REGIMES

Unfortunately, military regimes are no better and usually worse than the civilian regimes they replace. They are authoritarian, repressive and decidedly undemocratic. They are not accountable to the public; they r…
Bio Security and Barack Obama

Legislation intended to help prevent an attack with biological weapons failed to clear a key Senate committee today, mainly because the Obama administration has not told Congress what it wants in the bill. Senate Homelan…
UNITED STATES SMART POWER AND CHINA

WHEN Hillary Clinton said in January that America should exercise “smart power”, Chinese officials and commentators pricked up their ears. Here was a neat way of describing, some of them said, what China too was try…
Dictator should present himself to the International Criminal Court

President Barack Obama will renew far-reaching economic sanctions on Sudan this month, underscoring his administration's pledge to use both carrots and sticks to induce cooperation from Khartoum on key security issues…
United States Will Not Recognize Election

The Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) praised six senior Members of the U.S. Congress for their open letter to the Honduran Congress reminding Honduran authorities that without political progress in ending the c…
Why Barack Obama will FAIL

How can Obama possibly live up to his Nobel? By using it to strike a deal in the Middle East The Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively--a triumph of hope over inexperience--threatens to become a central metaphor…
Obama Biden Foreign Policy Wavering

Want to know how to deal with a momentous issue of war or grand strategy? You could do a lot worse than check out what Vice-President Joe Biden thinks - and plump for the opposite. Mr Biden was chosen as Barack…
One World One Central Bank

When the finance ministers and central bankers of the world's 20 largest economies gather(ed) in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24, they (could) congratulate themselves for averting a 1930s-type meltdown. But nothing the G-20 has d…
United States GPOI FIJI Sanctions Live and Kicking

Phnom Penh - The United States has reaffirmed its backing of Cambodia to host an annual multilateral exercise next year to train peacekeepers for UN and regional peace support operations, according to Cambodia's defence…
Barack Obama Joe Biden Free Fiji from Fear and Want

We had followed Barack Obama’s election campaign trail with much enthusiasm seeing that this was going to be an unstoppable train of Change for America and for the first time it put the greatest country on earth in the…