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Jul 1, 2011

Juppe: UN, NATO informed about France’s arms drop in Libya

By AFP

From AFP:  Members of the UN Security Council and NATO were informed about France’s plans to deliver weapons to Libyan rebels, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Friday.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Jul 1, 2011

Rogozin claims US-Russian missile defense talks at “dead end”

By DPA

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jul 1, 2011

Response to Gates: “Don’t come to me whining now about EU participation in NATO activities”

By Andreas Geiger, the Hill

From Andreas Geiger, the Hill:  Let’s be honest here. Of course, NATO members have made it a habit to lean back and wait that the “US cavalry” will fix it.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2011

Hezbollah Members Indicted for Rafiq Hariri Assassination. What Now?

By James Joyner

The United Nations tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has handed down indictments making official what has long been assumed: Hezbollah terrorists were the culprits. Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor for the FT: A United Nations-backed international tribunal has asked Lebanon to arrest members of the Shia militant group, Hizbollah, […]

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2011

The Austerity Package Passes: A Greek Tragedy?

By Garrett Workman

Greece’s Parliament has just narrowly passed a €28 billion austerity package of tax increases and spending cuts: a necessary precondition for the European Union and the IMF to keep Greece on life support. So even with crushing unemployment, and the near-constant protests on the streets of Athens turning violent, Greece’s Socialist majority eked out a ‘yes’ […]

Economy & Business Greece

NATOSource

Jun 30, 2011

Obama on Libya, Congress, and War Powers Resolution

By Barack Obama, the White House

From Barack Obama, the White House:  We have done exactly what I said we would do.  We have not put any boots on the ground.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 30, 2011

Libya: Russia decries French arms drop to Libya rebels

By the BBC

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2011

Time for Unity in Europe

By Carles Castello-Catchot

There has not been a time in recent years in which Europe, both as an idea and as a viable political and economic institution, has faced tougher times.

Southern & Southeastern Europe

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2011

Vietnam Redux

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

U.S. President Barack Obama has just finished explaining to the world that he is ordering 10,000 soldiers home from Afghanistan this year and another 23,000 by September 2012, which will still leave some 70,000 till 2014, when his secretary walks in, notepad at the ready, and says, “The Taliban called. They said, ‘Take your time.'” […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2011

U.S. Needs Viable Afghan Exit Plan

By Gurmeet Kanwal

There are few people in the United States who understand the American foreign policy better than Henry Kissinger. So, when the former secretary of state, who changed the balance of power in Asia with his “shuttle diplomacy” in the early 1970s, says something about a conflict zone in our part of the world, one has […]

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