It sounds as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had sufficient. Her new strong tone on North Korea is a welcome, albeit overdue, budge. The Obama administration’s North Korea policy for the past 18 months has consisted of public relations ploys of pretending to get tough on the rogue state and a propensity [...]
It sounds as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had sufficient. Her new strong tone on North Korea is a welcome, albeit overdue, budge. The Obama administration’s North Korea policy for the past 18 months has consisted of public relations ploys of pretending to get tough on the rogue state and a propensity [...]
When President Obama signs legislation that’s being called the most sweeping set of reforms to hit the fiscal industry since the 1930s, some very prominent bankers will not be present.
Politico’s “Morning Money” reported yesterday that the Obama administration did not extend invitations to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein for [...]
Leopoldo López, a right-wing opposition leader in Venezuela who supported the military overthrow of the democratically elected government there in 2002, complains about my film (South of the Border), saying “Mr. Stone argues that the assault on human rights is of secondary concern.”
But my film argues the opposite. It’s just that the “assault on human [...]
The White House is, quite obviously, getting back into battle mode. This is a excellent thing for Democrats, because it means putting the last spadeful of dirt on the carcass of President Obama’s hopes of bipartisanship in Washington during his term of office. But while Obama has recently begun to make the case [...]
Anyone who thinks Aspen is only an chic liberal closed society visibly hasn’t been here lately.
On the same day last week those who were looking for a right wing perspective on a broad range of issues had some tough choices to make.
They could either attend the Aspen Institute event featuring five A-list Republican governors [...]
This is the full version of the condition, published in the National Interest on-line on 07/15/2010
The recent summit in Washington, DC and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tour of the Eastern European countries and the post-Soviet space that followed the Summit give us an opportunity to evaluate the current state and the immediate prospects for [...]
The war in Afghanistan is nearly nine years ancient. Despite the Obama administration’s July 2011 target date for de-escalating, there seems no end in sight. It is already longer than the U.S. ground war in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. To be sure, the circumstances are vastly different. Yet, there are numerous — and disturbing [...]
The Senate approval of the Dodd-Frank Act on Thursday made world-wide headlines, and is being recognizable as an achievement for President Obama, on par with healthcare reform. Why is new legislation, fundamentally domestic in its scope and intention, so valuable to the rest of the world?
For the past three years, the fiscal markets have been [...]