"Blow to Clinton as Edwards backs Obama
Edwards to Endorse Obama
Blow to Clinton as Edwards backs Obama
John Edwards, former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and champion of organised labour, sought to rally his party and bring the primary race to a close by providing Barack Obama with his highest-profile endorsement in months
US Election 2008 - Why Europe Could Get it Wrong a Third Time!
Daniel Werdung: In 2000 and 2004 Europe bet on the wrong horse by anticipating that the "European President" would succeed. This could happen again!Clinton wins West Virginia Democratic primary
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
(Updated 11 April 2008) (PDF; 316 KB)Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)
Massive Retaliation
Hillary Clinton, answering a question that contained two hypotheticals—that Iran had its own nuclear weapons and that it attacked Israel with them—threatened to “obliterate” Iran with “massive retaliation.” Not once, but five times (one, two, three, four, five), mostly under direct questioning. So we may presume that she means it, that it wasn’t too late at night, and she didn’t misspeak.
Gary Sick gives us some background on “dual containment,” which may be what is behind Clinton’s pairing of nuclear threats with her concept of a nuclear umbrella for the non-Iran states of the Middle East.
Top Four Arms Exporters: USA, Russia, Germany and France
Observing Hermann has posted a revealing article that references the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI) most recent survey on global arms transfers (HT: Joe Noory):Food for Thought; pause for reflection: American attitudes towards the world
By Patricia H. Kushlis
Seems to me that the foreign policy advisors for all three still-standing US presidential candidates should take a hard look at the results of the most recent 19 nation public attitudes poll formally released today at a Carnegie lunch by World Opinion.org and coordinated by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). And in particular that section on how Americans see their government and this country’s relationship to others.
