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Saturday, May 03, 2014

News from The Hill The 18-month battle to get White House Benghazi emails - By Kristina Wong

News from The Hill: The 18-month battle to get White House Benghazi emails By Kristina Wong

It took 18 months for Judicial Watch to unearth the emails on Benghazi that led Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to say he’s forming a special committee to look into the issue.

“This material was not voluntarily disclosed,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told The Hill during a phone interview.

The emails have given new life to Republican attacks on Benghazi. They include a key email from White House official Ben Rhodes outlining “goals” for the talk-show appearances of Susan Rice, who was serving as ambassador to the United Nations at the time.

Read the story here.

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Friday, May 02, 2014

MediaBistro TVNewser: How The Evening Newscasts Reported The New Benghazi Emails

MediaBistro TVNewser: How The Evening Newscasts Reported The New Benghazi Emails

How The Evening Newscasts Reported The New Benghazi Emails (TVNewser)
CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley was the only evening newscast Wednesday night to not cover newly uncovered emails from White House adviser Ben Rhodes, which provided talking points to former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice before her Sunday show interviews several days after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in Sept. 2012. Rhodes' email to Rice advised her to stress that the Benghazi attacks were rooted in a controversial YouTube video, "and not a broader failure of policy."

Mediaite When the new Benghazi information was made public this week, CBS News covered the new details online (with a disclosure that Ben Rhodes is the brother of CBS News president David Rhodes) but not in its CBS Evening News broadcast. Some conservative sites claimed a serious conflict of interest, with the Heritage Network blog and the Washington Free Beacon picking up on the familial connection.

HuffPost According to a network spokesperson, David Rhodes was not involved in editorial discussions on Wednesday about whether CBS Evening News should cover the email. Fox News and other conservative outlets have long claimed that the Benghazi attack hasn't received enough media attention, even as the subject's been hashed out numerous times in White House briefing room and journalists have covered the story consistently.

The Daily Caller ABC World News ran a lengthy segment on the revelations Wednesday, saying the White House was "feeling the heat" and that the "email seems to call into question what the White House said about its role" in deceiving the public about the cause of the Benghazi attacks. Likewise, NBC Nightly News highlighted the new emails Wednesday night.

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

News from The Hill Is Obama pivot to Asia on hold? By Jeremy Herb

Plans for the United States to pivot to Asia are on hold again with Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

It’s just the latest complication in the Obama administration’s plans to rebalance the military toward Asia to counter China.

Read the story here.

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Friday, January 03, 2014

Which countries Americans like … and don’t | Pew Research Center

Which countries Americans like … and don’t | Pew Research Center: "BY BRUCE STOKES

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/30/which-countries-americans-like-and-dont/

The trend among the U.S. public increasingly has been to turn away from international issues and focus on the home front. But while Americans have long been accused of lacking interest in the rest of the world, they have never lacked strong opinions about other countries.

As 2013 wanes, a Pew Research Center survey conducted Oct. 30-Nov. 6 found that Americans have strongly favorable views of some allies and negative opinions about a range of others. Some of this is driven by U.S. partisan politics. And history suggests all such opinions are subject to change.

Topping Americans’ most favored nations list are Canada (81%) and Great Britain " ...Read more: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/30/which-countries-americans-like-and-dont/

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Monday, November 25, 2013

"It's the Power, Stupid: Be it Soft, Hard, or Smart, It's All About Power," A Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christianna N. Leahy McDaniel College

Published on Feb 8, 2013 "It's the Power, Stupid: Be it Soft, Hard, or Smart, It's All About Power"

A Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christianna N. Leahy, Professor of Comparative Politics, Chair, Department of Political Science and International Studies, McDaniel College

The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy in the USA
"Options on the Table": Soft Power, Intercultural Dialogue, and the Future of US Foreign Policy" The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Washington D.C., January 9th - 11th, 2013)

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

US rescinds July 4 invites for Iran diplomats

US toughens stand; rescinds July 4 invites for Iran's diplomats Hindustan Times

Iran Envoys Disinvited From July 4 Festivities Washington Post

US rescinds July 4 invites for Iran diplomats The Associated Press

US rescinds July 4 invitations to Iran diplomats AFP

Analysis: Obama balances realism, idealism as Iran simmers CNN

The presidential election cycle Jamaica Gleaner

US says hot dog diplomacy still on with Iran

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMtZsaQT4cTxcgA51WrpiUS6cWGg

June 23, 2009

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters…

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Obama Preparing Congress For Clash With Netanyahu

OBAMA PREPARING CONGRESS FOR CLASH WITH NETANYAHU. By Dana Goldstein

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has a fascinating report on the administration's attempts, via talks with Democratic legislators, to preempt the influence of the right-wing Netanyahu government here in the U.S.

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American supporters of the Netanyahu position are already pressing their case, as Elliott Abrams, a former deputy national security adviser under President Bush, does today in a Washington Post op-ed. So far, there is good evidence that Obama will have a stiff(er) spine when dealing with conservative Israel supporters who seem to have no qualms about the reactionary positions of the country's new government. In Istanbul Monday, the president stated,

Read the entire post here: OBAMA PREPARING CONGRESS FOR CLASH WITH NETANYAHU.

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Clinton gift gaffe in Russia

‘Overcharge’: Clinton Gift Gaffe Sends Wrong ‘Reset Button’ Message to Russia

March 6, 2009

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/861250

An assistant shows the block with a red button marked "reset" in English an...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a 'reset button,' however the Russian-language label had the wrong word, and read 'overcharged' instead of 'reset.' (March 6)

For much more information, click here.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9ca28ad2530b0d0029e1304762eca18f.8c1&show_article=1

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=292513

http://clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/861250?wpid=1904

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SNL Makes Fun of Treasury Secretary Geithner's Desperation to Solve Banking Crisis
03-8-2009 8:46 am

Ohio School Receives 700 Applications For One Open Janitorial Job
03-8-2009 8:30 am

SNL Sketch Examines Electrode Rush Limbaugh Implanted in Michael Steele's Head
03-8-2009 7:14 am

Rahm Emanuel's Anger Issues Inspire SNL Dream of 'The Rock Obama'
03-8-2009 0:53 am

NY Daily News Video on Miley Cyrus Event Includes Creepy Interview With 'Fan'
03-8-2009 0:48 am

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Monday, November 03, 2008

U.S.-India Nuclear Chickens Coming Home to Roost by Robin Walker

U.S.-India Nuclear Chickens Coming Home to Roost by Robin Walker

http://www.allourmight.com/?p=210

October 27th, 2008 by Jim Arkedis

The following is the latest in our series from fellows in the Truman National Security Project. Robin Walker writes:

The recently-completed U.S.-India civilian nuclear deal put a major crack in the nonproliferation dam of the non-proliferation treaty (NPT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). That’s in addition to the the announcement last week that China will build two nuclear reactors in Pakistan. The next president will have to move quickly to prevent the complete destruction of the existing nonproliferation regime and a potentially rapid spread of nuclear weapons that could follow.

Under the U.S.-India deal, the United States agreed to provide nuclear fuel for India and enable U.S. firms to sell nuclear it technology. In exchange, India will allow international inspectors and IAEA safeguards at their civilian (but not military) nuclear sites.

The deal is controversial because it would give India—a non-signer of the NPT like neighbor Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel—the de facto rights of a nuclear weapons state under the NPT, which bans nuclear trade with non-signers and non-nuclear countries.

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Options for the next president include:

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Read the rest of Mr. Walker’s column here: U.S.-India Nuclear Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Robin Walker is a South Asia and nonproliferation expert . The views expressed here are his own.

The views and ideas expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the Progressive Policy Institute, nor the management staff of AllOurMight.com.

http://www.allourmight.com/?p=210

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