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Liz Cheney: chicken, hawk, or both?

I've been enjoying the public back-and-forth between Rachel Maddow, host of the eponymous MSNBC show, and Liz Cheney, daughter of the former vice president and founder of Keep America Safe , a hawkish PAC. In the past weeks and months, Cheney has...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 2:34 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media

New German government wants U.S. nukes out

Reuters has printed excerpts from the coalition agreement between German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle 's free democrats, which includes the following paragraph: we will strive within (NATO...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 2:04 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Nukes

Rich Germans ask for higher taxes

They're the kind of citizens any cash-starved government could want: a group of wealthy Germans have launched a petition this week calling for higher taxes on wealthy Germans . The group claims that Germany could raise €100 billion if the richest...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2009 1:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Germany

Gitmo prisoners to Georgia?

Eurasianet's Molly Corso reports that Tblisi and Washington are in talks over Georgia accepting detainees from Guantanamo Bay: Georgian National Security Council Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili stated that negotiations about a prisoner transfer are "ongoing...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 11:17 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Georgia, Caucasus

Morning Brief: Washington prepares for Hu visit

Washington prepares for Hu visit Top story : Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in the United States today for a state visit that will be a crucial barometer of the U.S-Chinese relationship. U.S. officials are signaling that President Barack Obama will...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 5:19 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Baby Doc arrested. But will he be tried for all his crimes?

In the span of a mere 48 hours, Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has returned to the troubled island from exile in Paris and been arrested in Port au Prince. France24 reported this afternoon that he had been indicted...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 1:53 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Obama administration to move forward with military tribunals at Gitmo

Obama administration to move forward with military tribunals at Gitmo Top story: The Obama administration is planning to lift the ban on new military tribunal cases against detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The order amounts to...

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 5:34 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

China's friendly press coverage of Hu-Obama summit

The small army of television camera crews assembled outside the White House yesterday for the historic joint press conference with U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao included several cameras for China Central Television (CCTV...

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 3:45 PM by FP Passport

Ivory Coast: Speaking loudly, with a big stick

Across the board, the rhetoric on the Ivory Coast is escalating. The West African economic community, ECOWAS, says it is set to intervene militarily to unseat should-be-outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo. African Union mediator and Kenyan Prime Minister...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 10:48 AM by FP Passport

Bob Barr joins Baby Doc legal team

CNN is reporting that former Georgia congressman and recent Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr is on the legal team helping former Haitian leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in his effort to recover millions of dollars in assets...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 8:07 AM by FP Passport

U.N. to deliver food aid by text message

We've reached a very strange point in human history when it is assumed that people who don't have access to food will have working cell phones: In a test project targeting 1,000 Iraqi refugee families, the United Nations agency will send a 22...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 7:19 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Food/Agriculture, Iraq

Morning Brief: Uneasy Ceasefire in Ukraine

Uneasy Ceasefire in Ukraine Ukraine: Opposition leaders negotiated an uneasy ceasefire with President Viktor Yanukoich on Thursday, ahead of a second round of talks to end the unrest that has roiled the capital since late November. The two-month-old demonstrations...

Published Fri, Jan 24 2014 5:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Japan and China Pick an Un-Davos-like Fight at Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland — Sparks are flying between Chinese and Japanese officials in this snowy Swiss town -- and not the kind that this business matchmaking soiree is meant to kindle. The two Asian powers have set aside the conference's normal air of...

Published Fri, Jan 24 2014 4:34 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Japan, Diplomacy, East Asia, China, Davos2014

Sorry We're Not Sorry: Japan TV Exec Revives Comfort Women Debate

Japanese officials have apologized at least 54 times for the country's historical aggression against its Asian neighbors during World War II. And, almost without fail, these acts of contrition are effectively negated by revisionist statements from...

Published Mon, Jan 27 2014 12:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Japan, Human Rights, East Asia, Women, Military, Germany

State of the Union: The Promises Obama Did(n't) Keep

If, like me, you sat down on Monday to read all of President Obama's State of the Union addresses delivered since he took office in early 2009, you'd be forgiven for thinking that foreign policy has served as something of a footnote during his...

Published Tue, Jan 28 2014 1:48 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Politics, Obama Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Congress

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Liz Cheney: chicken, hawk, or both?

New German government wants U.S. nukes out

Rich Germans ask for higher taxes

Gitmo prisoners to Georgia?

Morning Brief: Washington prepares for Hu visit

Baby Doc arrested. But will he be tried for all his crimes?

Morning Brief: Obama administration to move forward with military tribunals at Gitmo

China's friendly press coverage of Hu-Obama summit

Ivory Coast: Speaking loudly, with a big stick

Bob Barr joins Baby Doc legal team

U.N. to deliver food aid by text message

Morning Brief: Uneasy Ceasefire in Ukraine

Japan and China Pick an Un-Davos-like Fight at Davos

Sorry We're Not Sorry: Japan TV Exec Revives Comfort Women Debate

State of the Union: The Promises Obama Did(n't) Keep