http://foreign.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for foreign en Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2046408 unknown@Netscape.com In Iraq and beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2046408EmpiremilitaryimperialismbasesforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2044501 unknown@Netscape.com A review of Noam Chomsky's new book, "Interventions," which is a collection of essays on American policy since 9-11. Chomsky's first essay is titled "9/11: Lessons Unlearned" in which he addresses the question: "Why do they hate us?" Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:27:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2044501foreignpolicybushadministration911warmiddleeastNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2040887 unknown@Netscape.com The next foreign policy crisis won't be the Islamic Republic. Instead, look at the country the U.S. once threatened to bomb back into the Stone Age. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:43:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2040887iranwarforeignpolicySecurityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2040466 unknown@Netscape.com For countries - small, middling, or great - acquiring nuclear weapons is all about the most basic requirement: the survival of the regime or nation. Joining the "nuclear club" has proved an effective strategy for survival. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:16:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2040466NuclearweaponsforeignpolicypowerwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2038731 unknown@Netscape.com The damage the president has done to our country's reputation can be rebuilt -- by those who uphold our Founding Fathers' ideals. Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:07:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038731americabushforeignpolicydiplomacyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2035111 unknown@Netscape.com The hardliners inside and outside the Bush Administration are continuing to pursue an open confrontation with Iran. Outside the administration, impatience is on the rise. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:37:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2035111wariranforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2031693 unknown@Netscape.com If you take notes, you will find that American government officials are almost incessantly talking about foreign countries. They criticize the countries. They give them advice. They threaten them, most often with sanctions. The point is that the rest of the world is none of our business. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:16:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2031693foreignpolicywarGenocideNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033183 unknown@Netscape.com If you take notes, you will find that American government officials are almost incessantly talking about foreign countries. They criticize the countries. They give them advice. They threaten them, most often with sanctions. The point is that the rest of the world is none of our business. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:16:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033183foreignpolicywarGenocideNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2031691 unknown@Netscape.com While the Bush administration keeps its focus on turning a disaster in Iraq into victory, it seems that Russia is not buying into the rhetoric that the United States is the only superpower. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:08:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2031691coldwarrussiaforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033184 unknown@Netscape.com While the Bush administration keeps its focus on turning a disaster in Iraq into victory, it seems that Russia is not buying into the rhetoric that the United States is the only superpower. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:08:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033184coldwarrussiaforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2028697 unknown@Netscape.com Foreign aid is a system by which the American taxpayers are forced, in the name of national security or defense of the "free world," or charity, or whatever the politicians tell us, to subsidize US export companies and prop up client states that are often ruled by dictators. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:39:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2028697foreignAidtaxesconstitutioncharityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2027801 unknown@Netscape.com Recommended reading to understand the results of America's foreign policy.. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:27:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2027801foreignpolicyciawaraggressioninterventionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2028300 unknown@Netscape.com As Ron Paul has pointed out to Mr. Giuliani, our wealth and our freedom (or, now, the remnants of it) had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda Ã;¢ââ;;¬" it was "blowback" from the Middle East that was a direct consequence of our interventionis Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:19:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2028300ronpaulforeignpolicyGiulianiGOPNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2024950 unknown@Netscape.com "She represented the United States and many people are thinking negative things about the country right now." Mr. Corte and others said the complaints included arrogance by the Bush administration and frustration over American immigration policy, the war in Iraq and the historical grievances Mexico harbors against its neighbor. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:42:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2024950MexicoamericanbushforeignpolicymissUSANews http://web2announcer.com/go/2024738 unknown@Netscape.com This has been quite the week to learn about the foreign policy vision--or lack of vision--for leading presidential contenders on both sides of the aisle. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:33:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2024738foreignpolicyPoliticianselectionsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2023580 unknown@Netscape.com The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington's foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relationsââ;¬"creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:11:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2023580bushadministrationNeoconservativeschinataiwanforeignpolicyPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2022037 unknown@Netscape.com It's gotten so bad that an increasingly Stalinistic Vladimir Putin has started accusing us of provoking an "arms race" and conducting "imperialism" in global affairs. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:25:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2022037ARMsraceforeignpolicyrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2020347 unknown@Netscape.com It is just as easy to believe a systematic lie as a systematic truth. In time, with suitable repetition, one can seem as the other. Rare admissions can conceal more than they reveal. Hypocrisy is the norm. We don't target innocents. They do. We don't torture. They do. Our terrorism is not terrorism. Theirs is. They will not renounce violence. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:39:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2020347hypocrisyforeignpolicywariraqiranNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2020108 unknown@Netscape.com American officials have reported "instances of appalling living conditions, abuse, and coerced labor" among the foreign construction workers Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:50:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2020108iraqembassyforeignpolicycoercionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2016276 unknown@Netscape.com Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran? For he is surely behaving as though it is his call alone. And evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war. Tue, 29 May 2007 23:27:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2016276wariranforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2010329 unknown@Netscape.com After committing troops to a war that has left hundreds of thousands dead and millions without homes, George W. Bush says he prays for safety and peace. Way to go, Georgie, shift the responsibility for your mess to God. Sat, 26 May 2007 10:37:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2010329wariraqcongressforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1989499 unknown@Netscape.com The "blowback" theory isn't some fringe idea common only to crazy Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists. It doesn't suggest that we "deserved" the Sept. 11 attacks, nor does it suggest we shouldn't have retaliated against the people who waged them. Mon, 21 May 2007 21:22:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1989499ronpaulGiulianiforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1988856 unknown@Netscape.com Musings on the book Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson. Are we human? Are we awake? Or are we happy robots, enjoying the things we are offered as bribes for our complicity in our monstrous empire's service. Mon, 21 May 2007 19:12:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1988856nemesischalmersjohnsonEmpireforeignpolicywarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1987264 unknown@Netscape.com Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were. Mon, 21 May 2007 17:36:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1987264foreignpolicyterrorismwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1912824 unknown@Netscape.com Paul initiated an exchange with Giuliani by implying U.S. policies in the Middle East had contributed to the attacks in New York and Washington. "Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years," he said. Wed, 16 May 2007 08:03:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1912824ronpaulGiulianiTerroristattacksforeignpolicywarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1889964 unknown@Netscape.com It doesn't matter which side of this discussion you're on. If you use the word terrorism in this discussion or the overloaded terms terrorist and insurgent, you fail to talk clearly. You use the cliches and the frame defined by the propagandists. You are deep into double-speak. Mon, 14 May 2007 19:11:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1889964terrorismforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1854708 unknown@Netscape.com The former Marine intelligence officer and author of "Waging Peace" takes on Alan Dershowitz, the American Legion and other advocates of the war who have equated "supporting the troops" with continuing the senseless and often brutal occupation of Iraq. Fri, 11 May 2007 21:30:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1854708wariraqforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1803990 unknown@Netscape.com It is unfortunate that Secretary Rice did not meet with Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki at last week's conference on Iraq in Sharm el Sheik. It is imperative that the administration find other ways to initiate discussions, perhaps in private, to pave the way for an American strategic opening to Iran. Why? Tue, 08 May 2007 21:40:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1803990iranriceforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1660438 unknown@Netscape.com Iran made attempts to reach a "grand bargain" between the U.S. and Iran, before Bush administration hard-liners killed the effort in 2003. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:12:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1660438iranusrapprochementbushadministrationforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1658922 unknown@Netscape.com Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:17:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1658922katrinaRitaforeignAidNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1590129 unknown@Netscape.com The terrorism and threats we face at home include the daily reports of horrific killings of innocents, moral corruption in high places, damage to our honor, "blowback" from misguided and deceptive foreign policies, threats of the loss of our basic liberties and prospects of long-term economic decline and national debt. Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:52:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1590129warconstitutionpoweriraqforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1587331 unknown@Netscape.com Presenting himself as a presidential candidate "who can speak directly to the world," Senator Barack Obama on Monday outlined his approach to foreign policy, vowing to double foreign aid, expand and modernize the military, and rebuild fractured alliances. Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:25:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1587331obamaforeignpolicyChiagoCouncilonglobalAffairsisolationismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1545869 unknown@Netscape.com No more 50 cents per copy. No more limited opening hours. And no more flashing ID just to enter the reading room. The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) database is expected to go online soon. The Department of Justice database is an exhaustive list of lobbyists representing foreign governments and politicians. Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:36:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1545869foreignLobbyistsLobbyingPoliticsdatabaseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1440367 unknown@Netscape.com In an unprecedented move, both houses of the Russian parliament Friday accused the United States of interfering in Russia's internal affairs ahead of parliamentary elections next December and crucial presidential polls next year. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:34:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1440367russiaforeignentanglementsmeddlingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1419785 unknown@Netscape.com So apparently, the American Founders risked their lives and fortunes in order to wage war against Great Britain and declare independence from the King -- all in order to vest "near dictatorial power" in the American President in all matters of foreign policy and national security. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:55:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1419785bushpowerforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1397901 unknown@Netscape.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that brought sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that the two may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip -- to open a dialogue with Iran. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:31:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1397901pelosibushforeignpolicyirandiplomacyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1353102 unknown@Netscape.com Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials. Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:45:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1353102NorthKoreaethiopiaUNARMssanctionsusforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1327648 unknown@Netscape.com The debate over Iranian interference in Iraq proceeds without ridicule on the assumption that the United States owns the world. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:57:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1327648iranforeignpolicywarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1285319 unknown@Netscape.com Religion is used to explain terror attacks as part of a cosmic conflict between Good and Evil rather than in terms of political processes. Fundamentalism and democracy are completely antithetical when the former attempt to engage the machinery of the state to further its parochial biblical world view. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:07:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1285319evangelicalairforceforeignpolicymilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1287123 unknown@Netscape.com Pressuring Tehran on its nuclear program seems to have only made the nation more belligerent. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:46:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1287123iranforeignentanglementsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1280362 unknown@Netscape.com Labor leaders overseas are turning increasingly to an obscure 18th-century law that could for the first time make U.S. companies liable at home for the violent and sometimes murderous actions of their employees around the world. Several lawsuits alleging violation of the Alien Tort Statute are awaiting trial in federal courts, filed with the help Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:07:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1280362foreignWorkerssueU.S.companiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1267668 unknown@Netscape.com Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has outraged Falklands veterans by expressing 'continuing regret' over both Argentinian and British casualties during the 1982 war. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:15:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1267668foreignSecretaryMargaretBeckettNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1205722 unknown@Netscape.com Hundreds of thousands of young people are travelling to be educated abroad. They are led by the Chinese, for whom a foreign education is highly prized. There now are over 50,000 Chinese students in Britain - mostly the children of the elite and the rich - and the numbers studying abroad are predicted to double. Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:52:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1205722foreigneducationstudyAbroadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1198021 unknown@Netscape.com The Bush administration's message to its enemies has been very clear: if you possess WMD you're safe, and if you don't, you're fair game. Iraq had no nuclear weapons and was invaded, Iran doesn't as well and risks attack, yet that other "Axis of Evil" country, North Korea, reportedly does have nuclear weapons and is left alone. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:45:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1198021iranwarforeignpolicybushpersiangulfNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1186234 unknown@Netscape.com It should surprise no one that the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq four years ago was based upon lies and fabricated evidence. Other wars instigated by the U.S. were begun in the same way, but we never seem to learn the lessons that history could teach us. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:41:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1186234wariraqforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1091333 unknown@Netscape.com Many people who observe current events in the United States and overseas have said, "We are fighting the Vietnam war all over again." As many military experts have noted, Iraq is not precisely Vietnam. But there are significant similarities. Clearly, some people did not learn from it. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:47:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1091333iraqvietnamwarhistoryforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1021610 unknown@Netscape.com People in US cities would be outraged if another country garrisoned its troops close by with all the resulting fallout: unacceptable noise, pollution, environmental destruction, appropriation of valued public real estate along with drunken soldiers on the loose violating laws, causing damage and raping local women. Not the kinds of neighbors we cho Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:21:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1021610EmpirenemesismilitarybasesforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1030790 unknown@Netscape.com Few Americans believe their federal government should become engaged in "regime change" operations, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. Only 15 per cent of respondents believe the United States should try to change a dictatorship to a democracy where it can, down 12 points since April 2004. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:18:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1030790regimechangepublicopinionforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1002462 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush's envoy to Sudan said Wednesday that the administration is preparing to impose new economic sanctions to counter Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's refusal to allow U.N. peacekeepers to deploy in Darfur. Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:02:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1002462sanctionssudanforeignentanglementsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/979504 unknown@Netscape.com The US Republic has yet to collapse, but an imperial presidency now places great strain on it with a dominant Pentagon and culture of militarism undermining Congress, the courts and our civil liberties. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:06:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/979504EmpirenemesisforeignpolicyimperialismlibertyNews