MAR 18, 2010
Clinton urges Russia to delay Iran’s nuclear plant
Yahoo (Associated Press)
Clinton said Iran is entitled to civil atomic energy, but added that it would be premature to go forward with any nuclear project when Tehran has yet to prove the peaceful nature of its program. The U.S. and other nations are concerned that Iran has been trying to secretly develop nuclear weapons.
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MAR 17, 2010
A messiah can’t do it. To reshape the world, the US must first reform itself
The Guardian
Beyond improving the US's popular standing in the world – no mean achievement, to be sure – Obama's foreign policy has so far produced no clear, significant success. Why? Here are some of the explanations offered. Disappointment was foreordained: those messianic expectations of his presidency could never have been met by any mere mortal.
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MAR 17, 2010
Georgia Mounts American PR Campaign
Der Spiegel
George W. Bush once celebrated Mikhail Saakasvili, but President Barack Obama has given him the cold shoulder. Now the Georgian president is seeking to polish his image in the United States through an expensive Washington PR firm and by promoting the development of a Hollywood film starring Andy Garcia and Val Kilmer.
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MAR 17, 2010
Armenian genocide talk has Turkey threatening to expel Armenians
The Christian Science Monitor
After politicians in the US and Sweden recently labeled the deaths of up to 1.5 million in 1915 an Armenian genocide, Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan responded by threatening to expel about 100,000 Armenians living in Turkey.
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MAR 16, 2010
U.S.-Russia Relations: In Need of a New Reset
TIME
In Russian political circles, Barack Obama's election tended to evoke two different reactions. Many officials were curious to see what new deals he would offer, but others, in the tradition of the Cold War, dismissed him as just the latest mouthpiece of the old American élites.
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