U.S. foreign policy
World calls for Ukraine cease fire after plane crash
July 18, 2014Strong words came amid contrasting images of emergency workers and off-duty coal miners across sunflower fields searching for charred pieces of wreckage from the Boeing 777.
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With Iraq under threat, questions emerge
June 20, 2014Among those hard questions, many Iraqis believe, should be a serious re-think of the damaging U.S. policy of manipulating ethnic and sectarian blocs in Iraq.
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“Daylight” appears on Israel-Palestine conflict
June 10, 2014J Street, the six-year-old "pro-Israel, pro-peace" liberal Jewish organization, with some 180,000 members and supporters, met in San Francisco June 7-8 in its first national summit on the West Coast.
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Obama rebuffs militarists in speech full of contradictions
May 30, 2014Obama emphasized working through international bodies, however he placed NATO, a U.S./Western Europe Cold War holdover, first on his list, before the United Nations.
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Fixing U.S. intervention capabilities in Cuba
May 23, 2014What people think seemingly has little effect on ending what Cubans say is the longest and cruelest economic blockade in human history. Polls show overall U.S. disapproval, Cuban-Americans included.
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