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Empire and Latin America in the Obama era
April 2009
TNI
 Manuel Pérez-Rocha

Barack Obama's rise to the U.S. presidency has left most Latin Americans suspended between skepticism and hope. That's bound to make the V Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, to be held on April 18 and 19, especially interesting.

A promising sign of meaningful change in U.S....

'No reason for unease at Obama presidency'
January 2009
Praful Bidwai

NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (IPS) - As much of the world jubilates in the swearing in of Barack Hussein Obama as the President of the United States of America, Indian diplomats are uneasy about what his presidency would entail for relations between the two countries.

Former Indian diplomats and...

Hearing holds clues to Clinton's foreign policy approach
January 2009
Phyllis Bennis
 Phyllis Bennis and Joseph Nye interviewed by Gwen Ifill
Phyllis Bennis and Joseph Nye discuss approaches to foreign policy in the new US administration

GWEN IFILL: For more now on what to expect from a Secretary of State Clinton, we turn to Joseph Nye, dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard — he held intelligence and Pentagon posts in the...

US war industry: economic bane or boon? (Video)
October 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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A “private” letter to President George Bush on Cuba and U.S. policy
September 2008
Saul Landau
 Nelson P. Valdés and Saul Landau

Querido Jorgito,

I wanted to review your accomplishments and thank you for your persistence in helping our Cuban revolutionary regime. Specifically, you provided needed aid that helped us improve the economy, boost our trade relations and make our succession a peaceful one. Of course you...

McCain targets Russia (video)
September 2008
Phyllis Bennis
 Phyllis Bennis, Paul Heinbecker and Jonathan Schell
McCain's was completely unmemorable speech, and his focus on policy was virtually nonexistent, apart from demonising Russia in the Cold War style.
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Obama Biden and Iraq
September 2008
Phyllis Bennis
 Eric Margolis, Phyllis Bennis and Paul Heinbecker
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Will Obama-Biden question military dominance?
September 2008
Phyllis Bennis
 Phyllis Bennis, Eric Margolis and Paul Heinbecker
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The Obama-Biden worldview (Video)
August 2008
Phyllis Bennis
 Eric Margolis, Phyllis Bennis and Paul Heinbecker
In Obama's foreign policy platform we are potentially seeing the break with Bush's recklessness and unilateralism, but not with the legacy of the US interventionism.
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US imperial strategy backfires in Georgia (audio)
August 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
US failure to back its client state Georgia in the conflict over South Ossetia showed the limits of its power and has boosted the popularity of the Russian government at home, says Boris Kagarlitsky

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