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Obama is focusing too much on the bad stuff

Everyone's weighing in on Barack Obama's first year, and I suppose I can't resist -- with the caveat that it's far too early to judge his presidency, etc., etc. I'm worried, frankly, but perhaps not for the same reasons as some other...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 10:47 AM by FP Passport
What do Richard Perle and Smokey the Bear have in common?

At a New America Foundation event today, featuring some of America's grandest grand strategists , Richard Perle proved willing to play with fire metaphors. It all began when Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Walter Russell Mead described...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 1:07 PM by FP Passport
Colombia: Maybe Chavez just saw Santa

Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva can hold his own in a trash-talking battle with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez -- no mean feat: Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane and...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 8:32 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America
China: We just gave Cambodia $1.2 billion because we're nice

China is denying that the $1.2 billion in aid that Vice President Xi Jinping pledged during a visit to Cambodia yesterday had anything to do with the fact that just hours earlier, the country deported 20 Uighur asylum speakers -- a move that Xi praised...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 7:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, China, Foreign Aid, Southeast Asia
Market for carbon permits not warming

I'm seeing a lot of spin out there from environmental advocates and supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama about last weekend's climate-change denouement in Copenhagen. The gist of their argument is that the summit may not have been a smash...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 7:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Global Warming
Morning Brief: The Copenhagen backlash begins

The Copenhagen backlash begins Top Story: Just days after countries agreed to a face-saving agreement at the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, accusations have begun to fly about who was responsible for the disappointing conference. Brazilian President...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 6:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief
Hopenhagen, RIP

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Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 5:03 PM by FP Passport
Mexico City legalizes gay marriage

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Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 3:05 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America, Mexico
Has Clinton been reading her FP?

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Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 2:51 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Foreign Policy magazine
Al Qaeda apparently not very good at drug smuggling

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Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 9:06 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Drugs & Crime
Morning Brief: Thousands protest Iranian regime at Grand Ayatollah's funeral

Thousands protest Iranian regime at Grand Ayatollah's funeral The funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri -- a leader of Iran's 1979 revolution turned prominent regime critic -- became a flashpoint for the country's opposition as...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 6:01 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief
What were we expecting from Copenhagen?

With all due respect to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita , I don't think you really needed an advanced computer model to predict that the Copenhagen conference wasn't going to end with binding emissions goals. But even so, the final deal is a crushing...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 2:59 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Environment
Copenhagen fizzle

According the WSJ , there will be no "comprehensive accord" from Copenhagen. But there will be a band-aid deal between US, China, India, S Africa. The Washington Post 's initial headline sounds rather too optimistic to me. Look forward to...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 1:50 PM by FP Passport
Obama speaks Beijingese

He came; he spoke ... he did not conquer. It's unclear how much impact Obama's speech (text here) at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen this morning will have in nudging negotiators toward an agreement. I found the most interesting line of his...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 9:46 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia
Obama's Copenhagen Speech

The prepared text of U.S. President Barack Obama's address at the Morning Plenary Session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Oslo, Norway. Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 9:09 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Default, Free, Document, Web Exclusive

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Obama is focusing too much on the bad stuff

What do Richard Perle and Smokey the Bear have in common?

Colombia: Maybe Chavez just saw Santa

China: We just gave Cambodia $1.2 billion because we're nice

Market for carbon permits not warming

Morning Brief: The Copenhagen backlash begins

Hopenhagen, RIP

Mexico City legalizes gay marriage

Has Clinton been reading her FP?

Al Qaeda apparently not very good at drug smuggling

Morning Brief: Thousands protest Iranian regime at Grand Ayatollah's funeral

What were we expecting from Copenhagen?

Copenhagen fizzle

Obama speaks Beijingese

Obama's Copenhagen Speech