Israel is using US, Israel's association is negative for US

Listen carefully to former CIA Chief Michael Scheuer- Whether we want to fight Israel's wars in the future.... AIPAC & other influential American Zionists hamper the discussion ... is something that we should be able to talk about. Israel has no strategic or manpower value to us. American foreign policy is up to the American people.

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Foreign Policy mag spotlights 'peak phosphorous'

We've written a lot here on Grist about the troubles associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. It's been a while since we've focused on our other fertilizer problem, phosphorous.

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A Valuable Hour on Obama Foreign Policy

Panelists are my colleague and friend STEVE COLL, President, New America Foundation; Staff Writer, The New Yorker; THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Foreign Affairs Columnist, New York Times; and DAVID IGNATIUS, Columnist and Associate Editor, Washington Post.The meeting will run from 5:30 pm til 6:30 pm (9 minutes from now as I write) eastern time.

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Political Research Associates - Right Web

Tracking militarists efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy, Right Web is a program of Political Research Associates (PRA) that monitors U.S. organizations and individuals -- both in and out of government � that promote militarist foreign and defense policies, with a special focus on the 'war on terror' and the Middle East.

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The U.S. -- Against Decline: An Interview with Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an adjunct professor of history at Georgetown University and a director at the Foreign Policy Initiative. He is the author, most recently, of The Return of History and the End of Dreams. He spoke with RealClearWorld editor Greg Scoblete.

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Best of the Web: Analyzing Haiti Coverage

A roundup of the best articles looking at the shortcomings of Haiti coverage from Women and Foreign Policy, part of Foreign Policy Association's world affairs blog network

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National Security, the Obama Doctrine - Associated Content -

The foreign policy of the United States is currently operating from a position of weakness based on the core beliefs of our President.

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More Terrorist Blowback from Failed U.S. Foreign Policy

I wonder how many people have noticed and wondered why al-Qaida or other Islamic-terrorist groups haven’t tried to blow up airliners bound for Stockholm, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, or Zurich? Might it be because their governments are neither perceived as occupiers nor closely associated with U.S. policy in the Middle East and South Asia?

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The CIA, Narcotics & Underworld: Doug Valentine IV

"The Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association are the original CIA. They work for industry that is interested in trade overseas, inviting themselves into the politics of foreign countries... It’s a shell game... about the connections between the CIA and the media and new media – I’d say they’re tighter than ever."

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Foreign Policy: Gays in Latin America: Closet Half Empty?

A major social revolution is taking place in Latin America. After years of lagging behind, gay rights movements in Latin America are coming out into the mainstream. Javier Corrales is visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and associate professor of political science at Amherst College.

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