The Pentagon has virtually replaced the State Department in making U.S. foreign policy, The Nation magazine charges.
“Quietly, gradually---and inevitably, given the weight of its colossal budget and imperial writ---the Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department at the center of US foreign policy-making,” reporter Stephen Glain writes in the Sept. 28 issue.
This is in reference of a piece; authored by a renowned analyst, Morton Abramowitz and was published in world prestigious Paper, The Washington Post on Sep 1, 2009. The author has been assistant secretary of state for intelligence & research in the Reagan administration, ergo it matters what he utters. But, sorry to say that an intellectual of this caliber takes little pain to explain the reality. The author has breached all the moral values while maligning Pakistan Army. I quote only one sentence therefrom to show the hidden hostile intention of the author.
According to a recent article in the New York Times, a private attorney has been reprimanded by the Florida Bar Association for describing a local judge as an “evil, unfair witch” on his blog. The lawyer was angry over the judge’s practice of giving criminal-defense lawyers only a week to prepare for trial rather than the customary month or more.
Government power is growing, and unless President Barack Obama and the majority in Congress have a libertarian epiphany, it will continue to grow for years.
Barack Obama, the US president, will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council which could lead to a call for all nations to scrap their nuclear arsenals.
Leaders from the G20 group of major developed and developing nations are gathering in the United States to discuss how to get the global economy back on a sound footing after a year of turmoil.
An experimental vaccine has been found to successfully cut the risk of HIV infection, raising hopes of a "breakthrough" in the battle against the virus that causes Aids, researchers say.
At least 15 senior al-Qaeda members have escaped from a prison in Tikrit, Iraqi officials said, with authorities locking down the city as they search for fugitives.
Three separate missions examining the moon have found clear evidence of water there, apparently concentrated at the poles and possibly formed by the solar wind.
Avtovaz, Russia's largest carmaker, has announced it will cut 27,600 jobs, more than one quarter of its workforce, as it struggles with spiralling losses.
Iran's president has launched a scathing attack on Western powers, accusing them of spreading "war, bloodshed and terror" in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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Iran's president has launched a scathing attack on Western powers, accusing them of spreading "war, bloodshed and terror" in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
