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July 1, 2011

Analysis: U.S.-India Trade Talks Focus on Trade Barriers

Although the U.S.-India economic relationship has grown significantly in recent years, economic barriers continue to prevent U.S. investment in several lucrative sectors. U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner and Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met in Washington this week to discuss trade and economic investment opportunities between the United States and India in the second [...]

June 24, 2011

Obama Kicks Off New Manufacturing Effort

Imagining advances from lighter cars to smarter robots, President Barack Obama is announcing a $500 million project to spur high-technology manufacturing, a sector of U.S. industry that presidential advisers say has lost ground to such competitors as Germany and Japan. On Friday in Pittsburgh, Obama is to call for a joint effort by industry, universities [...]

June 23, 2011

Gallup Poll: Americans Rank Army as Top Branch

Americans believe that the Army is most important of the five branches of the U.S. military in defending our national security, a new Gallup poll shows. The survey indicates that 25 percent of Americans rank the Army as No. 1, while 24 percent see the Marines at the top, 17 percent name the Air Force, [...]

June 8, 2011

GOP House Leaders Propose Plan to Cut Federal Workforce

Key House GOP leaders have detailed plans to cut the federal workforce by hiring one person for every three who leave jobs. If adopted, the plan would cut the number of federal workers by 10 percent by 2015, The Washington Post reported. Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida: As “these workers leave, we cannot let this [...]

May 24, 2011

Anti-terror law clears hurdle, faces objections

WASHINGTON – A tight deadline looming, the Senate on Monday advanced a four-year extension of the Patriot Act, the controversial law that governs the search for terrorists on American soil. Lawmakers voted 74-8 to debate and vote the legislation this week, before key provisions expire on Friday. President Barack Obama was in Europe, so any [...]

March 28, 2011

PJ Crowley: No regrets on Manning

28 March 2011 Last updated at 12:52 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Mr Crowley said he did not think the controversy would go as far as it did Ex-US state department spokesman PJ Crowley, who quit after criticising the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks, [...]

March 23, 2011

Crowley quits over Manning comments

Crowley, centre, resigned over comments he made regarding the Pentagon’s detention of a US soldier [Reuters] US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned from his post following controversial comments involving the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The news on Sunday came three days after Crowley was reported to have criticised the Pentagon’s treatment of detained US soldier Bradley Manning. Crowley said [...]

January 21, 2011

Obama Officials Caught Deceiving About WikiLeaks…

Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the same playbook: it manufactures falsehoods about them, baselessly warns that they pose Grave Dangers and are severely harming our National Security, peppers all that with personality smears to render the targeted individuals repellent on [...]

October 17, 2010

Israel and nuclear strike capability…

Image via Wikipedia Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that Tehran was ready to restart talks with world powers on its nuclear program in November in exchange for a statement on Israel’s atomic capability. If this is a concern of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad then it is justified. “Israel is widely suspected to have [...]

September 28, 2010

Pakistan Warns NATO against Conducting Military Operations…

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Pakistani government warned the NATO and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to refrain from performing any military operations and attack inside the country under the pretext of chasing Afghan militants. “The ISAF and NATO forces were urged to refrain from any military operations which violate the UN laws and Pakistan’s sovereignty,” [...]

September 27, 2010

“Dangerous” book destroyed in US…

Tags: Commentary, books, Politics, Pentagon, World Dmitry Borisov 27.09.2010, 16:22 The Pentagon of the United States has bought and trashed all the 9,500 copies of the book on secret military operations in Afghanistan. It has become the first case when any ministry or department was so anxious to destroy the entire edition of the book. [...]

August 12, 2010

Iran Reveals US, Israel Pressures on Egypt to Deny Visa for MPs…

Image via Wikipedia TEHRAN (FNA)- Member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Parviz Sorouri revealed US and the Zionist regime’s pressures on Egypt no to issue visas for the Iranian MPs planning to visit Gaza in support for Palestinian people. The Iranian lawmaker said Egypt has yet to issue visa for [...]

August 2, 2010

America is a Military State in Development…

“I have introduced legislation to reinstate the draft and to make it permanent during time of war. It is H.R. 5741, and what this does is to make everyone between the ages of 18 and 42 – whether they’re men or women, whether they’re straight or gay – to have the opportunity to defend this [...]

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