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    Gravel Discusses Campaign Funding, Relations with Iran

    Oct 01, 2007 10:35 PM EST

    ... Mike Gravel is a former two-term U.S. senator from Alaska who served from 1969 to 1981. He was a strong critic of the Vietnam War and worked in the Senate to end the draft. He's with us now.Welcome.FORMER SEN. MIKE GRAVEL (D), Presidential Candidate: Ray ...

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    New U.S. Counterinsurgency Tactics Face Challenges Ahead

    Jan 26, 2007 06:05 PM EST

    ... were caught by surprise and were confronted with a war that they were not mentally prepared to fight," said Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University. From roughly June 2003 to June 2004, said Bacevich, the U.S. military "made tremendous mistakes using the wrong tactics, the ...

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    U.S.-Russia Trade Pact Paves Way for Russia to Join WTO

    Nov 20, 2006 08:50 PM EST

    ... high standards of President Bush's market-opening trade agenda and moves Russia closer to full integration into the global, rules-based trading system," said U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab after signing the agreement with her Russian counterpart German Gref in Hanoi, Vietnam at the meeting of the Asia ...

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    Senate Passes U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

    Nov 17, 2006 09:20 PM EST

    ... the Clinton administration.But, the deal is intended to reward India's new role as a responsible nuclear power.This is a "major shift in U.S.-Indian relations," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Thursday, according to the AP. "If we are right, this shift will increase the prospect ...

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    President's Baghdad Trip Sparks U.S. Iraq Policy Debate

    Jun 14, 2006 10:35 PM EST

    ... Zbigniew Brzezinski, he's now a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Walter Russell Mead, the Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of "Special Providence: American Policy and How it Changed the World."I talked to ...

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    U.S. Forces Intensify Attacks on Insurgent Strongholds

    Sep 08, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    MARGARET WARNER: For an assessment of what hitting the 1,000 U.S. fatalities figure says about conditions in Iraq now, we turn to: Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "The Generals' War," a book ...

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    Some Delegates' Views on U.S. Policy in Iraq

    Jul 28, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    ... have to be able to make decisions just as Kerry did in combat in Vietnam and with his 20 years of experience in the Foreign Relations Committee and personal knowledge of world leaders, he will be able to persuade countries to join with us. And he also will be able ...

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    Engaging the Allies: U.S.-European Relations

    May 23, 2002 04:00 AM EST

    I think it does come, as Secretary Schlesinger said, from in part from the fact that Europe is engaged in this really historic political invention of the European Union and of pooling sovereignty, and it sees it as valuable, a whole different set of tools. And the U.S. is ...

  • The implications of U.S. allies seeking new economic partnerships

    The implications of U.S. allies seeking new economic partnerships

    Jan 29, 2026 11:30 PM EST

    As U.S. allies look to other sources of economic partnership amid Trump's turbulent tariff policies, Amna Nawaz discussed the implications of these shifting global relationships with Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy prime minister and former foreign affairs minister of Canada. ... Amna Nawaz: Well, to help us understand the ...

  • Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed

    Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed

    Aug 05, 2025 03:27 PM EST

    ... out. South Sudan, which is tipping toward civil war, has declined to say where the men are being held or what their fate is. The U.S. also deported five men who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini, where the ...