John Negroponte

Oman Sets Up Human Rights Commission

MUSCAT- Oman has for the first time set up a human rights commission as the United States removed the Sultanate's name from a list of countries that it said had not done enough to check human-trafficking. The newly-established...

Obama aides visit seat of US foreign policy and diplomacy: officials (AFP)

AFP/File – The street in front of the US State Department, seen in 2001. Aides to president-elect Barack Obama on … WASHINGTON (AFP) – Aides to president-elect Barack Obama on Friday visited the State Department for the first...

Congresswoman Confident Obama Will Support UNFPA Which Supports China's Coercive Abortion Program

Rep. Carolyn Maloney said she is confident that President-elect Barack Obama will reverse the Bush administration's decision six years ago to stop the $40 million in annual funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)...

Bush’s Library ... The Kurds, Oil and Missing Records

10-Nov-2008

Source: Special to HNN (11-8-08) [Laray Polk lives in Dallas, Texas. Now the work begins to plan and build the site." --Don Evans, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and chairman of the George W. Bush...

Toni Solo: varieties of imperial decline

One's heart goes out to the huge numbers of sincere and concerned people in the United States who voted in good faith. That they bought a pig-in-a-poke will probably only become clear after a long, unhappy trek through...

New Bulgarian Ambassador to US Hands in Credential Letters

The newly appointed Bulgarian Ambassador to the US, Luchezar Petkov has delivered copies of his credential letters to the US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry reported. During the...

J.P. Morgan – Loving Their Handiwork

Morgan is the quintessential leviathan in the Interest Rate arena through their obscenely sized Medium-Term Interest Rate Swap book which stood at 59 Trillion at June 30, 2008. The interest rate swap book, due to its sheer...

Today in The Nation: Obama and the World

Much has been written in recent years about America "rejoining the world." Nowhere more than at the UN have Washington's bullying tactics and stunted, provincial vision of global challenges cast such a pall over international...

On energy, Azeris play Europe and Russia against the middle

It is boom time in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan: the skyline is dense with cranes and high-rise buildings, and the streets of the port city on the Caspian Sea are clogged with luxury shops and traffic. Evidence of this is...

Azerbaijan Plays Russia Off Against Europe in Contest Over Gas

By Celestine Bohlen It is boom time in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan: The skyline is dense with cranes and high-rise buildings, and the streets of the port city on the Caspian Sea are clogged with luxury shops and traffic....

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