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The Obama administration plans to announce a new policy on Wednesday to curb the spread of biological weapons, but it will reaffirm the Bush administration’s opposition to an international regimen for verifying stockpiles of anthrax, smallpox and other...
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I remember my first Thanksgiving away from home, as a struggling and uncertain post-graduate student at St. John’s College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1978, gathered not around a table with roast turkey and my family, but around more pints than I can recall...
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Allen McDuffee, t r u t h o u t Report One year after Obama takes office and appoints Hillary Clinton secretary of state, the State Department struggles to determine whether it really wants to separate from the Pentagon. At a December 3 closed briefing...
Tags: Ian Kelly, State Department, Afghanistan, smart power, Department of Defense, foreign service, bush administration, obama administration, Bush, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Karāchi
Statement by the President on the Settlement of Cobell Class-Action Lawsuit on Indian Trust Management “Today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that, at long last, a settlement has been reached in the Cobell class-action...
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The problem is that commentators have taken the date given in Obama's speech as having some sort of truth value rather than being an exercise in public relations. On the one hand the date is a sop to anti-war Democrats and to others who may...
Tags: Obama, Afghan surge, Afghan withdrawal date, Obama Administration, Neoconservatism, Bill Kristol
Executives for mortgage companies and government officials faced an angry congressional committee Tuesday concerning some of the problems with the Obama administration's mortgage-aid program aimed at avoiding foreclosures. Many of the complaints lodged...
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Despite concerns raised by congressional Republicans, the Obama administration might go ahead and move scores of terror suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to the state prison of Illinois in rural Thomson. That's not all!...
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The Obama administration is conducting a workshop on government openness for federal employees behind closed doors Monday, a private training session for freedom-of-information officials to learn about a new U.S. office that settle disputes between the...
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Committee, Gates said that there are “no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out.” Gates also said a US withdrawal would probably take two to three years whenever it begins. Meanwhile, the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley...
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At times the reactions of conservatives are as puzzling and inexplicable as that of liberals. The conservative response to President Obama's West Point speech is a case in point. Instead of saying that we agree with the president on the need to send...
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