Sign in
NetworkOfCare.org
August 2013 - Foreign Policy Public Health Blog
Blog Help
Foreign Policy Public Health Blog
Home
Syndication
RSS for Posts
Atom
RSS for Comments
Recent Posts
Japan Finally Got Inflation. Nobody Is Happy About It.
The Panama Canal Is Running Dry
The Davos Paradox
What Gulf States Want in Gaza
What’s the Deal With Javier Milei?
Tags
Africa
China
Culture
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Economics
Egypt
Election 2012
Europe
Fun Stuff
Human Rights
Iran
Israel/Palestine
Latin America
Media
Middle East
Military
Morning Brief
North America
Obama Administration
Passport
Politics
Russia
Terrorism
U.S. Foreign Policy
View more
Archives
January 2024 (33)
December 2014 (7)
November 2014 (34)
October 2014 (50)
September 2014 (47)
August 2014 (42)
July 2014 (48)
June 2014 (131)
May 2014 (212)
April 2014 (61)
March 2014 (65)
February 2014 (63)
January 2014 (91)
December 2013 (87)
November 2013 (93)
October 2013 (95)
September 2013 (65)
August 2013 (93)
July 2013 (120)
June 2013 (124)
May 2013 (174)
April 2013 (185)
March 2013 (154)
February 2013 (101)
January 2013 (88)
December 2012 (86)
November 2012 (113)
October 2012 (125)
September 2012 (127)
August 2012 (131)
July 2012 (124)
June 2012 (81)
May 2012 (81)
April 2012 (99)
March 2012 (113)
February 2012 (87)
January 2012 (86)
December 2011 (77)
November 2011 (77)
October 2011 (87)
September 2011 (86)
August 2011 (68)
July 2011 (135)
June 2011 (140)
May 2011 (110)
April 2011 (93)
March 2011 (101)
February 2011 (115)
January 2011 (117)
December 2010 (96)
November 2010 (112)
October 2010 (105)
September 2010 (111)
August 2010 (143)
July 2010 (125)
June 2010 (162)
May 2010 (112)
April 2010 (139)
March 2010 (162)
February 2010 (153)
January 2010 (169)
December 2009 (132)
November 2009 (120)
October 2009 (112)
June 2007 (20)
April 2007 (25)
Sort by:
Most Recent
|
Most Viewed
|
Most Commented
You Can Now Buy Saddam Hussein's Rifle Online
The rifle above belonged to a brutal dictator who gassed to death thousands of his own citizens and had the gall to erect a giant arch modeled after his own fists. Now it can be yours for an estimated $7,500 to $15,000. The Rock Island Auction Company...
Published
Fri, Aug 30 2013 8:00 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Middle East
,
Iraq
Morning Brief: In Stinging Defeat for Cameron, Parliament Rejects British Participation in Syria Strike
In Stinging Defeat for Cameron, Parliament Rejects British Participation in Syria Strike Top news: By a vote of 285 to 272, the British House of Commons defeated a preliminary measure for authorizing a military intervention in Syria, a shocking defeat...
Published
Fri, Aug 30 2013 5:59 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Morning Brief
5 Takeaways from the Government's Super-Secret 'Black Budget'
Few documents have been more closely held by the U.S. intelligence community, but now the "black budget" -- the detailed breakdown of how American spies spend their money -- has largely been made public. Courtesy of NSA leaker Edward Snowden...
Published
Thu, Aug 29 2013 1:06 PM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
NSA
How I Smuggled 'Porn' Out of North Korea
On Wednesday, the occasionally reliable South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that a dozen performers, including Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend, were executed for making sex tapes, some of which "have apparently gone on sale in China,"...
Published
Thu, Aug 29 2013 10:40 AM
by
FP Passport
Assad's 11-Year-Old Son Could Be the Newest Soldier in Syria's Propaganda War
"I just want them to attack sooo much, because I want them to make this huge mistake of beginning something that they don't know the end of it." Those just may be the words of Bashar al-Assad's 11-year-old son, Hafez. A Facebook account...
Published
Thu, Aug 29 2013 8:03 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Syria
Morning Brief: Britain to Wait on U.N. Report Ahead of Syria Strikes
Britain to Wait on U.N. Report Ahead of Syria Strikes Top news: Momentum toward a military strike against Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria appeared to slow on Wednesday, as the Obama administration hit a number of unexpected obstacles. In Britain...
Published
Thu, Aug 29 2013 6:14 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Morning Brief
Would Martin Luther King Have Supported a Syrian Intervention?
In January of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., en route to Jamaica for a vacation, picked up a copy of Ramparts magazine and sat down to read a story about the plight of Vietnam's children. According to his assistant, Bernard Lee, King froze as he saw...
Published
Wed, Aug 28 2013 5:30 PM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Syria
Morning Brief: UK Goes to Security Council for Syria Resolution
UK Goes to Security Council for Syria Resolution Top news: As Western nations grindingly move toward taking military action against Syria, Britain said it will present a resolution to the Security Council that would authorize "necessary measures...
Published
Wed, Aug 28 2013 6:02 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Morning Brief
Is Syria Anything Like Kosovo?
As President Obama considers military strikes against Syria -- and how to square them with international law -- his advisors are reportedly looking at the 1999 NATO air war in Kosovo as a precedent. There's only one minor problem: The Kosovo war was...
Published
Wed, Aug 28 2013 5:00 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Obama Administration
,
U.S. Foreign Policy
,
Syria
Syrian Hacker Collective Knocks Out the New York Times
With the United States moving closer to military strikes in Syria, the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking collective, isn't content on the sidelines. On Tuesday, the group appeared to hit the New York Times' website and managed to redirect...
Published
Tue, Aug 27 2013 3:47 PM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Syria
Morning Brief: White House Considering Limited Military Action in Syria
White House Considering Limited Military Action in Syria Top news: President Barack Obama is weighing limited military action in Syria, following revelations that Bashar al-Assad's regime almost certainly deployed chemical weapons against civilians...
Published
Tue, Aug 27 2013 5:57 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Morning Brief
Did John Kerry Just Make the Case for Military Action in Syria?
If the bombs start falling on Damascus, Monday afternoon will be cited as the moment when the Obama administration laid out the moral case for military action in Syria. In a stern statement , Secretary of State John Kerry presented the White House's...
Published
Mon, Aug 26 2013 2:00 PM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Syria
How the Media Got the Bo Xilai Trial Wrong
On July 25, after months of silence about Bo Xilai, the disgraced Chinese politician who hadn't been seen in public since his sacking in March 2012, China's official Xinhua news agency ran a two-sentence story stating that Bo had been indicted...
Published
Mon, Aug 26 2013 11:30 AM
by
FP Passport
Morning Brief: U.S. Considers Military Action After Syrian Chemical Weapons Strike
U.S. Considers Military Action After Syrian Chemical Weapons Strike Top news: With casualties mounting in Syria's civil war and consistent reports of a major chemical weapons attack in Syria, President Obama huddled with his military advisers over...
Published
Mon, Aug 26 2013 5:52 AM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
Morning Brief
U.S. Suspends Aid Over Human Rights Abuses by Police ... in St. Lucia
The United States has cut off foreign aid because of a string of alleged killings by police. Just not in Egypt. The State Department confirmed Thursday that it has suspended assistance to the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia because of 12 killings...
Published
Fri, Aug 23 2013 5:00 PM
by
FP Passport
Filed under:
North America
,
Human Rights
,
North Africa
,
Egypt
1
2
3
4
5
Next >
...
Last »