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Want to spruce up your tired old concept? Put a 2.0 on it!

Today, Luke Bozier, a former Labour Party web guru who recently defected to the Tories, has an op-ed up at the Huffington Pos t recommending " intervention 2.0 " as an international strategy for responding to the bloodshed in Syria. Here's...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2012 9:42 AM by FP Passport

Guest blog: Why globalization isn't working

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 So it turns out that Columbus was right all along. The world isn't flat. That's essentially what the G-20 was trying to tell President Obama in Seoul last week. As I predicted...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 10:25 AM by FP Passport

Soros: China has better functioning government than U.S.

If nothing else, Glenn Beck probably has his top story set for tonight's show: "There is a really remarkable, rapid shift of power and influence from the United States to China," Mr. Soros said, likening the U.S.'s decline to that of...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 8:35 AM by FP Passport

The Saudi succession battle spills into the press

A number of smart people have spent considerable energy on the question of what will happen after Egypt's 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak finally passes on to that great pyramid in the sky. But it may actually be Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 2:08 PM by FP Passport

Currency wars and conventional wisdom

Yesterday I received one of those "Q and A" e-mails that think tanks use to promote their views from the Carnegie Endowment yesterday. The first question was: "What is the danger that a currency war could break out?" Obviously the...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 1:00 PM by FP Passport

Bank of America shuts down Angolan embassy's checking account

This seems embarassing : The Angolan Embassy here canceled tonight's celebration planned to mark the country's 35th independence anniversary, following a decision by Bank of America to close the embassy's checking accounts. [...] The Angolan...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 1:46 PM by FP Passport

Beijing Air: 'Crazy Bad'

The U.S. embassy in Beijing has an air-quality monitoring station that tracks the level of certain pollutants in China's notoriously smoggy capital -- and then broadcasts results via Twitter. Most tweets from the sober-minded scientists behind @BeijingAir...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 9:14 AM by FP Passport

Putin praises Soviet-era spying

FP's newest contributor , Vladimir Putin, has made stregnthening Russia's defenses a ceterpiece of his reelection campaign. To that effect, during a recent interview, he praised Soviet-era spying in the United States: "You know, when the...

Published Wed, Feb 22 2012 3:20 PM by FP Passport

'I get to give the answers I want': Foreign-policy highlights from the Arizona debate

Last night's debate in Arizona featured the usual rhetoric in the economy, more conversation than usual about contraception, and more evidence for the theory that Ron Paul is essentially running as a blocking tight-end for Mitt Romney at this point...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2012 7:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012

Morning Brief: 'Friends of Syria' meet in Tunis

'Friends of Syria' meet in Tunis Top news: Diplomats and officials from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States are gathering in Tunis for the so-called "friends of Syria" meeting, meant to increase pressure on the Syrian government...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2012 5:37 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: UN debate on Syria shifts to humanitarian aid

UN debate on Syria shifts to humanitarian aid Top story: Following two vetoes by Russia and China of U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning the Syrian regime's crackdown, France and the United States are now drafting a resolution to provide...

Published Wed, Feb 29 2012 5:18 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

European unemployment: grim and grimmer

Eurostat has just released January unemployment numbers for the 17 Eurozone countries and its not a pretty sight . The overall joblessness rate for the eurozone was 10.7 percent in January, up slightly from December. Spain continues to have the highest...

Published Thu, Mar 01 2012 9:19 AM by FP Passport

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: An Ohio Tipping Point?

Nail-biter in Michigan Mitt Romney easily won the Arizona primary on Tuesday and eked out a victory against a surging Rick Santorum in Michigan, where Romney was born and his father was a popular governor. While Santorum cast the close contest as a victory...

Published Fri, Mar 02 2012 3:15 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama

Who's congratulating Putin?

For the most part, the reactions from other world leaders to Vladimir Putin's election win are breaking down about how you'd expect them to. The U.S. State Department issued a lukewarm statement congratulating "the Russian people on the completion...

Published Mon, Mar 05 2012 3:21 PM by FP Passport

Romney fuzzy on presidential 'first trip' etiquette

Romney gets his pander on at AIPAC: As President, peace will be my solemn goal. A peace based not on empty assurances, but on true security and defensible borders. This will require American strength, and a demonstration of our resolve. That’s why, as...

Published Tue, Mar 06 2012 2:47 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election Poster 4