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Barack Obama: A New Strategy for a New World

Below is the full text of the Barack Obama’s major policy speech on foreign relations. July 15, 2008 Washington D.C. As Prepared for Delivery Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins....

Success in Iraq

This is pretty interesting. Michael Yon, the author of Moment of Truth in Iraq, who has probably spent as much or more time in Iraq over the past five years than any journalist is calling the end of the Iraq War. The war continues to abate in Iraq. Violence is still...

Barack Obama on Iraq

By Barack Obama: The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated,...

George Bush, Cowboy to the End

I really don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest...

Iran Threatens to Photoshop Israel Off the Map

On Wednesday, Iran provocatively tested missiles that it says are capable of reaching Israel and a number of U.S. military bases. In connection with these tests, Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards posted this photograph of four missiles...

The Solar Pipe Dream?

Today, electricity from solar farms is approximately four times as expensive as the market rate. Solar costs are not predicted to reach parity until after 2020. Economics aside, what is the potential for solar energy? The Utility Solar Assessment (USA) Study, produced...