click to view promotional video. when i read in a department of state news release this morning that fran drescher will be appointed the nations newest public diplomacy envoy monday morning i immediately surmised that condoleezza rice and her gang at the state department had lost it.a a few moments later however i realized the brilliance of such an appointment. in case youre drawing a blank about ...
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there is a lot of hullaballo about north korea reversing the disablement procedures at yongbyon. i take the measures seriously as a signal by pyongyang but it is important to keep in mind that the substance of the reversal is quite limited. as the news reports indicate north korea had completed eight of the eleven disablement steps. north korea still had to finish unloading spent fuel rods f...
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photo credit cox forkum one of the biggest problems in this country is that our leaders think that muslims are like everyone else. for example read this press release from the us department of state on reaching out to the people of iranas the secretary noted in her february 15 senate testimony we will work with our friends and allies on a range of measures to reach out to the iranian people an...
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the u.s.libya terrorism settlement which sailed through the u.s. congress at the end of july and was signed on august 14 has mixed results for both countries and the victims of libyansponsored terrorism. the deal will enable the u.s. and libya to complete the process of mutual diplomatic recognition and establish economic relationships benefitting both countries and major american industries. th...
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el gobierno represivo de cuba planea un juicio maaana jueves 28 de agosto del 2008 contra el cantante de punk rock gorki aguila lader del grupo porno para ricardo. su arresto y las acusaciones son ridaculas. este joven lo anico que ha hecho es cantar. no ha amenazado a nadie no a tomado un arma para atacar a nadie. su delito es expresar en masica su desacuerdo con la dictadura que por 50 aaos escl...
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the wests recognition of kosovos independence can be used as a precedent for the russian recognition of south ossetia and abkhazia. indeed russia even brought up these two regions as potential examples where it might apply. secretary of state condi rice mentioned that kosovo was a unique case of course but in the realm of international relations she may as well have been farting the stars and stri...
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weve just had a public holiday in the uk and in consequence a long weekend but i wanted to add a few thoughts to jeffreys post last friday about chris fords resignatio n. bei ng the us representative at npt meetings is a pretty thankless task but dr ford did it very well. what made him a bit different was his willingness to debate and discuss the d word. this speech in praise of complexity so...
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within the next 10 years the u.s. china israel and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. so if and when they plant a flag does that give them property rights a nasa working group hosted a discussion this week to ask who owns the moon the answer of course is no one. the outer space treaty the international law signed by more than 100 countries states that the moon and other c...
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od eesko slove... od eesko slove... od eesko slove... od eesko slove... sent friday august 22 2008 902 am pietna spomienka pri prileitosti 40. vroia okupcie eeskoslovenska 21. augusta 1968 v poprade ...a do roku 1989 sa nikto kto sa pristavil pri hrobe nesmel dozvedie ako jozef bonk zahynul. ia zkon oodkodneni obeti okupcie sa vpripade usmrtench vzahoval len na ich rodiov a det...
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on july 22 just days before the russiangeorgia conflict us assistant secretary for south and central asian affairs richard boucher spoke before the osce helsinki commission regarding kazakhstans democratic and human rights progress before their scheduled 2010 osce chairmanship. before we get into how the us views their progress so far its never a bad idea to go over official us policy in central...
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organizers of the democratic national convention announced on tuesday that a former democratic elected official james earl carter jr. also known jimmy a former governor of georgia with a lengthy antiisrael record since his forced retirement twentyeight years ago will address the gathering next monday august 25. carter who served one term as president from 19771981 before being defeated in landslid...
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in an election year it is easy to become caught up in the political discussion about which candidate has the best policy on education which candidate will fix healthcare or which candidate will lower our gas prices. it is easy to focus on the problems because politicians dont get elected for the things that have gone right. these are the things we take for granted but there are certainly places ...
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its that time of year again. the shanghai cooperation organization annual summit the meeting will be held in dushanbe tajikistan on august 28 and foreign ministers from all six of its member states have already concluded a meeting going over a few topics to be discussed at the larger summit. the group of ministers decided that no new members not iran pakistan mongolia or india all have observer...
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esercitazioni e campi di addestramento di aspiranti terroristi in algeria non da tregua il terrorismo suicida in algeria. dopo lattentato di ieri tra le reclute dellaccademia militare di issers in cabilia lesplosione di due autobombe a bouira 120 chilometri da algeri davanti allhotel sophie e a un edificio militare ha provocato la morte di 11 persone tutte civili e 31 feriti tra cui 4 militari...
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description hollywood legend kirk douglas proves that no one is ever too old to be a digital activist. to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the united states the u.s. house of representatives passed a resolution last month apologizing for slavery. the passage was due in part to the online activism of the 91yearold actor. digital tools being used myspac...
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see also afghanistan news on wednesdaynight.com and cbc background on afghanistan 2008 robert galbraith august 19 after canada now its frances turn to ask whats happening in afghanistan reuters last week the canadians were soulsearch ingaabouta their presence in afghanistan after three female aid workers two of them canadian were killed in an ambush.ath eacanadian deaths in afghanistan undersco...
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the nytimes claudia dreifus recently interviewed dr. nina v. fedoroff science adviser to the secretary of state and administrator of the agency for international development q. why does the secretary of state need a science adviser a. because science and technology are the drivers of the 21st centurys most successful economies. there are more than six billion of us and the problems of a c...
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stefan kornelius auaenpolitikchef der saddeutschen zeitung ist einer der einflussreichsten journalisten in deutschland. in seinen kommentaren zum kaukasuskonflikt vertritt er eine explizit transatlantische linie. jeden vergleich der konflikte in georgien zum kosovokonflikt lehnt er strikt ab dies wundert wenig betonte er doch bereits fraher die unabhangigkeit des kosovos sei ein nicht vergleichba...
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secretary of state condoleezza rice offered remarks about the ongoing conflict between russia and georgia and other matters while aboard an aircraft en route to brussels belgium today.a below is a transcript of both her comments and the questionandanswer session with reporters that followed secretary rice hello. good morning everyone. all right well welcome aboard. can you hear back there okay can...
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nuotrauka paimta i u.s. department of state aeraae apie filmae soviet istorija baigiau klausimu kodael vokietija pripaino nacistinaes vokietijos klaidas ir karo nusikaltimus tuo tarpu rusija vis dar nirta jei tik kas bando priminti soviet saejungos nusikaltimus sulaukiau daugiau kaip penkiasdeimt skirting atsakym taaeiau geriausiai ae klausimae atsako kitas dokumentinis filmas kurae radau tinklara...
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its been a while since i paid a lot of attention to the complex subdivisions of the former soviet union1 but a comment left this afternoon made me go back to look at the evolution of the territory. if we look at georgia during the soviet era georgia itself was a soviet socialist republic remember ussr stood for union of soviet socialist republics of which russia was the largest and clearly most do...
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today secretary of state condoleezza rice and georgia president mikheil saakashvili were together in tbilisi at a joint press conference about the state of affairs in georgia today. you can tell saakashvili is fed up with diplomacy. he even reminded us that today we are facing evil and he wasnt afraid to say it. most of the driveby media are excusing russia and blaming georgia but thats just the...
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wheres togo the caribbean no thats trinidadtobago out comes the atlas once again. the last time i had it out i was looking up benin the first olympic delegation to take up residence in the olympic village. youd think id remember that togo is right next doorjust west of benin . on the southern coast of west africa togo is about 100 miles wide at its widest and all of 360 miles long about the s...
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a news release issued by the state department today makes it appear to me that the united states andor israel might be one step closer to taking action that ensures iran wont soon have the capability of producing a nuclear weapons treasury designation of iranian entities for proliferation activities today the department of the treasury designated under executive order 13382 five iranian entities o...
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