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Tag: Diplomacy

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: The Koreas of the Future

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Makes UNESCO Pay for Admitting Palestinians

Ear to the Ground: Turkish PM Plans First Visit to Egypt in 15 Years

Cartoons: Road Kill

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Report Mostly Exonerates Israel in Flotilla Raid

Arts and Culture: ‘Tiger Trap’: 21st Century Espionage

Reports: On His Way Out, Gates Talks About ‘Access’ to Asia

A/V Booth: Queen Comes Close to Apology in Ireland

Ear to the Ground: Queen to Visit the One That Got Away

Ear to the Ground: Dalai Lama to Give Up Politics

Ear to the Ground: Another Diplomatic Oops for the U.S., Courtesy of WikiLeaks

Reports: The Egyptian Army: Question Marks

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Reports: Hu Presents Obama With Counterfeit DVD

Reports: Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Swiss Cheese Sanctions

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Envoy Holbrooke Dies

Ear to the Ground: Indian Diplomat’s Turban + Airport Security = International Incident

Reports: WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’

Reports: Tough Times for Superpowers

Ear to the Ground: Wiki-Damage Control Time for Clinton

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Braces for Another WikiLeak

Reports: G-20 Plagued by Timidity

Reports: Obama’s Royal Passage to Asia

Ear to the Ground: Obama Backs India’s Bid for Security Council Seat

Ear to the Ground: Restart It Up

Ear to the Ground: Iraq’s PM Heads to Iran for Advice

Reports: Gorbachev’s ‘New Policy Forum’ Hints at the Future

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Regime in Contact With Taliban

Cartoons: After the U.N. Summit

Reports: U.S. Could Be Alone as Europe Turns Inward

Reports: The Forever Fidel Obsession

Ear to the Ground: Mideast Peace Talks Take One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Reports: Guess Who’s Coming to the Table?

Ear to the Ground: The ‘Only’ Country That Believes Israel

Ear to the Ground: Obama Outlines National Security Doctrine

Ear to the Ground: Britain Blocks Mossad Replacement Over Passport Theft

Ear to the Ground: Israel Officially Rejects U.S. Demands

Ear to the Ground: Builder Bibi Won’t Budge on East Jerusalem

Reports: What Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Conference Missed

Ear to the Ground: Diplomacy of Our Lives

Ear to the Ground: Connecting With Cuba

Ear to the Ground: Obama Cuts Nuclear Deal With Russia

Reports: The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Peace Negotiator Cancels Trip Over Tensions With Israel

Ear to the Ground: Diplomacy by Proxy

Reports: America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan

Reports: Who Will Be the New Global King of the Hill?

Ear to the Ground: ‘Very Challenging Year’ for Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Ear to the Ground: China Defends Its Great Firewall

Digs: When China Rules the World

Ear to the Ground: Here’s Something for Neocons to Flip Out About

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Official Won’t Risk U.K. Visit, Fearing Arrest

Reports: Take Me to Your Climate Leader

Ear to the Ground: Iran Plans to Build 10 More Enrichment Plants

Reports: Enough G-2 Talk Already

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Ear to the Ground: China and India Join Forces on Climate

Ear to the Ground: A Tentative Deal on Iran’s Uranium

Reports: Turkish Cooperation—and Coffee—in Short Supply for Israel

Arts and Culture: Turkish TV Show Causes Conflict With Israel

Ear to the Ground: More Obama Talk From the Nobel Jury

Ear to the Ground: Armenia, Turkey Sign Accord

A/V Booth: Nobel Committee Secretary Explains Why Obama Won

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Cartoons: Screech

Arts and Culture: Treasury Foils Cultural Exchange With Cuba

Cartoons: Enhanced Negotiation Technique

Reports: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Could Get Much Worse if Tolerated

Reports: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Ear to the Ground: Palestinians Love Obama, but Won’t Budge on Settlements

Ear to the Ground: Honduras Headache Won’t Go Away

Ear to the Ground: North Korea Bows to the South’s Fallen Pioneer

Ear to the Ground: Hillary Aims for the Global Glass Ceiling

Ear to the Ground: Sen. Webb’s Burmese Vacation

Ear to the Ground: Axis of Obstinacy: Israel Rebukes Diplomat for Challenging Settlements

Cartoons: Negotiating Tactic

Ear to the Ground: American News Ticker Goes Dark in Havana

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Cartoons: Open Door

Ear to the Ground: Where Does Hillary Clinton Fit In?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t ‘Meddle’ in Iran

Reports: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know

A/V Booth: Obama’s Cairo Speech

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Invites Iran for Hot Dogs and Fireworks

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Cartoons: Hedgehog [A Cartoon From Austria]

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Official Calls for Probe of Sri Lanka War Crimes

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

Ear to the Ground: Special Frenemies

Reports: Model for an Accounting

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: On Handshakes Past and Present

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns

Ear to the Ground: Castro Hails Obama Actions, Wants More

Reports: Castro’s Racial-Paradise Myth

Ear to the Ground: Iran Opens Nuke Fuel Plant

Ear to the Ground: Iran Warms to Obama Overtures

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants a Nuke-Free World

Ear to the Ground: World Reacts to North Korean Launch

Cartoons: Obama Pokes Iran

Ear to the Ground: Obama Looks for an ‘Exit Strategy’ in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Playing Chicken of the Sea

A/V Booth: Obama’s Diplomacy Vlog

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Scores a Hit With Talk-Show Diplomacy

Cartoons: Hungry Hungry Hillary

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Truthdig Podcast: Getting to Zero

Ear to the Ground: Dear Mr. Ahmadinejad

Ear to the Ground: Carter: Israel Will Face ‘Catastrophe’ Without a Palestinian State

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ear to the Ground: Russia-Ukraine Spat Leaves Europe in the Cold

Cartoons: Message From Hamas

Reports: Pondering the Inner Meanings of Bill’s Big List

Reports: Israel’s ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Ear to the Ground: North Korea Talks Fizzle

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Reports: Obama the Realist

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Ear to the Ground: Did Syria OK U.S. Attack?

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan to Talk It Out

Ear to the Ground: Time Is Running Out for Iraq Occupation Deal

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Ear to the Ground: If at First You Don’t Get North Korea to Disarm ...

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper: Bush Told Israel Not to Bomb Iran

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire

Ear to the Ground: Germany Slams U.S. Over Financial Crisis

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Ear to the Ground: Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen

Reports: With ‘Allies’ Like NATO, Georgia Better Not Annoy Russia

Cartoons: Halfway Meeting

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Diplomatically Dumps Russia

Cartoons: Bear Trap

Ear to the Ground: McCain: ‘We Are All Georgians’

A/V Booth: McCain’s Irony-Challenged Diplomacy Primer

Reports: A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy

Reports: NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Conflict Primer

Ear to the Ground: Bush Meets World

Reports: Syria Succeeds by Doing Nothing

Reports: Acts of War

Reports: Obama’s Audition

Cartoons: Diplomacy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Begins World Tour

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Maybe Consider Thinking About Talking to Iran

Reports: Educating the U.S. About the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Tehran Shoots, Obama Scorns

Reports: A Loss of Transatlantic Harmony

Cartoons: Bush’s Buddy

A/V Booth: ‘Israel Gets a Pass’

Reports: Investigate This

Reports: America’s Insane Cuba Policy

Ear to the Ground: Castro Slams Obama

Ear to the Ground: Israel and Syria Talk Peace

Reports: Bush?s Commitment Problem

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Condemn Bush’s ‘Appeaser’ Comment

Reports: The Ritual Flaying of Jimmy Carter

Reports: The High Price of Diplomacy With China

Ear to the Ground: A Papal Primer on Global Diplomacy

Reports: Dinner With Ahmed

Reports: The Mughniyeh Enigma

A/V Booth: Bush Unable to Avoid Public Display of Dancing in Liberia

A/V Booth: Bush on Why the U.S. Didn’t Send Troops to Darfur

Reports: We’ll Always Have Paris

Ear to the Ground: Bush Before the War

Reports: Global Consensus, Not Global Conquest

Ear to the Ground: North Korea Denies Sharing Nukes

Ear to the Ground: China Denies Hacking Pentagon

Reports: The Next Quagmire

Ear to the Ground: U.N. to Expand Iraq Mission Despite Protest

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Fires Back

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and UK Want U.N. Back in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: New British PM Cozies Up to Bush

Ear to the Ground: Russia Claims Much of Arctic

Reports: Bush Downplays Progress in Korea

Ear to the Ground: Israelis Want Peace, but Aren’t Holding Their Breath

Ear to the Ground: Gone Fishin’: Bush and Putin Try to Patch Things Up

Ear to the Ground: Blair Takes Mideast Job

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Career Plans for Tony Blair

Cartoons: G-8 Cools on Bush’s Global Warming Plan

Reports: Bush Breaks Neocon Taboo

Cartoons: The Myth of Moral Superiority

Ear to the Ground: Carter Disses Blair and Bush

Ear to the Ground: We’ll Always Have Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Iran Agree to Iraq Meeting

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Iran Vie for Gulf Allies

Ear to the Ground: The Queen Gets Her Revenge

A/V Booth: God Save the Queen From George W. Bush

Ear to the Ground: Rice Meets With Syrian Counterpart

Cartoons: The Truce

Reports: Putting Our Worst Foot Forward

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gives Sudan Ultimatum

Ear to the Ground: Russia Won’t Budge on Missile Defense

Ear to the Ground: Yahoo Sued for Collaborating With China

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