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“Homeland Security”

From On February 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment

The Trillion-Dollar Concept That No One Can Define 

by Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman

via Tom Dispatch

Imagine a labyrinthine government department so bloated that few have any clear idea of just what its countless pieces do.  Imagine that tens of billions of tax dollars are disappearing into it annually, black hole-style, since it can’t pass a [...]

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The world according to President Obama and Governor Romney

From On October 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via IPS News 

Graphic: The figures signify the number of times each country was mentioned in the Oct. 22 presidential debate. Credit: Zachary Fleischmann/IPS

U.S. strategy in the Greater Middle East, which has dominated foreign policy-making since the 9/11 attacks more than 11 years ago, similarly dominated the third and last debate between [...]

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Unleashed

From On May 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Globalizing the Global War on Terror

By Andrew J. Bacevich

Posted by Tom Dispatch

As he campaigns for reelection, President Obama periodically reminds audiences of his success in terminating the deeply unpopular Iraq War.  With fingers crossed for luck, he vows to do the same with the equally unpopular [...]

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Obama’s Foreign Policy and the End of the American Era

From On June 25, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Stephen M. Walt, co-author of the ground-breaking The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, gave a keynote address on “Obama’s Foreign Policy and the End of the American Era” at an event is co-hosted by the IIEA and UCD’s Clinton Institute for American Studies. You can download the Post [...]

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