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Covert Twitter Ops: Israel's Latest (Mis)Adventure in Digital Diplomacy

There's a new front in the social media wars: Israeli university campuses. In cooperation with Israel's national student union, Haaretz reported today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office is planning to create "covert units"...

Published Tue, Aug 13 2013 4:30 PM by FP Passport

The New Cocaine War: Peru Overtakes Colombia as World's Top Coca Grower

With the declaration by the United Nations on Thursday that Colombia has reduced its coca crop by 25 percent, meaning Peru has likely passed the country as the world's largest cultivator of coca, Colombians can breathe a sigh of relief. Ravaged by...

Published Fri, Aug 09 2013 2:40 PM by FP Passport

Rising Water Levels Solve Another Geopolitical Problem

We all know climate change is supposed to create more human conflict , but what about the problems it's solving? Xinhua reports on an elegant solution to a long-simmering Sino-Russian border dispute: In the next 10 days, the water level around Heixiazi...

Published Wed, Aug 07 2013 8:46 AM by FP Passport

What other countries think of the United States

A few weeks ago, I blogged about what the United States thinks of other countries -- its rather cruel view of Afghanistan being one of the less fortunate things about that Pew Poll. Today, Andrew Kohut, the head of the fantastically useful Pew Research...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 2:20 PM by FP Passport

Indian analyst: Mullah Baradar arrest is another ISI deception

The most interesting, and least verifiable theory I've seen about the capture of Taliban leader Mullah Baradar comes via B. Raman , a former top analyst with Indian intelligence. Perhaps not surprisingly, Raman think Pakistan is up to no good, and...

Published Sun, Feb 21 2010 6:51 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Pakistan

What's the U.S. policy on Coups D'Etat?

The Obama adminsitration's quick condemnation of last year's coup in Honduras and repeated (though ultimately unsuccessful) demands that leftist President Manuel Zelaya be reinstated, seemed to be an indication that the United States would no...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 10:34 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, State Department

Michael Hastings, 1980-2013

We're learning tonight that Michael Hastings -- the 33-year-old journalist whose 2010 Rolling Stone profile of a remarkably unguarded Gen. Stanley McChrystal cost the top commander in Afghanistan his job -- died in a tragic car crash on Tuesday morning...

Published Tue, Jun 18 2013 7:20 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Dalai Lama to meet with Obama as Beijing grumbles

Dalai Lama to meet with Obama as Beijing grumbles Top story: After weeks of anticipation and amid growing tension between the United States and China, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama today at the White...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 5:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Upcoming: the trial of China's richest man

Chinese entrepreneur Huang Guangyu's rise from street vendor to chairman of Gome, the leading consumer electronics retail chain in China, had all the hallmarks of the classic rags-to-riches tale of modern China -- until it all came tumbling down....

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 7:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: China

No, really, cancel Haiti's debt

Over at the Center for Global Development's blog, David Roodman argues that calls to cancel Haiti's debt (currently around $1.25 billion) are misguided. The question is whether to go further than debt service suspension, to drop Haiti's debt...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 1:35 PM by FP Passport

WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'

Last week, I interviewed Alex Gibney, director of the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks . Gibney told me he found it ironic that Julian Assange and supporters like Oliver Stone were attacking his film without having seen it. "The...

Published Fri, May 24 2013 2:49 PM by FP Passport

Berlusconi's latest assault on free speech

Italy has now essentially banned talk shows on state broadcaster RAI from commenting on politics ahead of regional elections: The ruling PDL Party's majority on the parliamentary watchdog that oversees public broadcaster RAI forced through rules that...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 12:22 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Media

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