Mexico Population: 11 Mexico 111,211,789 July 2010 est. " “Illicit drugs: “major drug-producing nation; cultivation of opium poppy in 2007 rose to 6,900 hectares yielding a potential production of 18...
State Department sponsors Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's visit to Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates Let’s get something straight. Probably most Muslims are not radical extremists and are probably as...
The capacity to govern and for change and improvement is limited. Resources are exceeding limited and place constraints on what government can do. This is one of the first things with which executives must...
There is a tightening noose around innocent people. It begins when the region in which they are located lacks a government that respects individuals and fails to address their basic needs. Under such...
At this stage in our economy, what the heck is going on when defense contractor Sikorsky is subcontracting work like this that we so desperately need in the USA? The State Department had to approve this deal, I...
Mowbray of the Washiington Times nails the State Department in the following piece for its shoddy visa handling practices, the chief culprit in the investigation of the Detoit Christmas bombing case. Most, including the media have ignored the fact that Umar Farouk...
Sibel Edmonds has been interviewed by former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi for The American Conservative magazine. Edmonds was twice gagged under the State Secrets Act by John Ashcroft, and called 'credible' by Sens....
created by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 204 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The spring of 2006 I was on my third assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Providing professional development training for the Afghan men and women employed by the Department of State, I returned to a large newly built Embassy – one of the largest in the world. Embassy...
opinion by Teleos1 | 3 years ago 611 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
Eight guards stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan have been fired for allegations of hazing; unfortunately for the guards there was photographic evidence to prove their guilt. Two other guards have quit for being tied to the incident. "The 10 guards were seen...
By Erik LarsonEDIT 8/25/09: Deposition Video and Transcript Released! http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7374Aug 8, 2009, Sibel Edmonds gave a sworn deposition in which she testified to her knowledge of treasonous...
opinion by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 23472 views | 13 recommendations | 28 comments
Recently, the United States Department of State criticized human rights abuses in China. The 'soft stance' of the Clinton-led State Department related to human rights abuses in Kenya appears somewhat different. "...
"More than 200 American citizens have been killed since 2004 in Mexico's escalating wave of violence, amounting to the highest number of unnatural deaths in any foreign country outside military combat zones,...
Two British high court justices speak out about US threats to withold intelligence if Britian made public Guantonamo torture transcripts from 2002."The court sides with the British government on refusing to release a document on alleged U.S. torture of a prisoner. But two...
Which style of diplomacy might Secretary of State Hillary Clinton use while globetrotting on behalf of President Barack Obama — the one she displayed yesterday at Foggy Bottom or the less-refined “blue...
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama's former bitter rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is his nominee for secretary of state. President-elect Obama and Mrs. Clinton fought perhaps the...
opinion by Edmund Jenks | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 287 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment