All Posts Tagged With: "Foreign policy"
The Daily Show — Spy low, sell high
Honduras President Manuel Zelaya is forced out by the military, and the CIA recruits laid-off Wall Street workers for the worst spy job ever.
Blackwater loses contract and right to operate in Iraq
Iraq repeatedly attempting to assert its sovereignty has been demanding changes and terminating the Blackwater era is one of them.
The State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide’s contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May, a senior U.S. official said Friday. The official told The Associated Press that the contract will lapse because of the Iraqi government’s decision to deny Blackwater a license to operate.
The Iraqis informed the State Department last week of the denial, which was made amid lingering outrage over a September 2007 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
For in depth information read Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army’.
US moral high ground">Olbermann — Obama seeks to regain US moral high ground
Obama, flanked by retired military officers signs executive order ‘REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÃNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES’ to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within one year. draft_order_closure_of_guantanamo_bay
Retired General Paul Eaton discusses how the process may occur and the ramifications to the US and our troops abroad.









