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Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger, criticized Mr. Obama’s leadership on Syria and supports arming the rebels.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/31/2012 5:44 AM | Add Comment

American agents all seem to have a story about suspicious Mexican Army activity.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

“Those controlling the virus can direct it from a distance,” Mr. Napelian said. “Flame is no ordinary product. This was designed to monitor selected computers.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Even human rights groups are not demanding intervention.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Lavrov repeated Russia’s position that it was tied not to Mr. Assad staying in power, but to the Syrians piloting their own political transition.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

A few days earlier, at the G8 summit at Camp David, Obama had reiterated his call for Assad to relinquish power, but the Russians continue to regard the Syrian President as he represents himself, as a force of stability.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding “kill list”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 8:02 PM | Add Comment

“Experiencing the accident convinced me that the best way to make nuclear plants safe is not to rely on them, but rather to get rid of them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

“But let us never use patriotism as a political sword. Patriots can support a war. Patriots can oppose a war."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

The Obama administration plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone technology to other allies

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 1:31 PM | Add Comment

This is how cyberweapons end up promoting peace, social media end up strengthening totalitarianism, and online filters end up improving information discovery.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

Euro Likely Worthless as Collector's Item & Mr. Blair is a War Criminal??? --- Bloomberg

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 9:29 AM | Add Comment

Stocks were down broadly in Spain.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

“Because one thing we’ve learned about war, I have learned personally about war, is that it has a dynamic all its own — it takes on a life of its own.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 6:01 AM | Add Comment

“But Putin doesn’t like having his clients removed one after another by the United States, and he considers Assad his client.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 9:00 PM | Add Comment

Last month, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the creation of a new U.S. espionage agency: the Defense Clandestine Service, or DCS.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Opium poppy, much like the coca grown in Colombia and Peru, poses a number of problems because there is so much money to be made that powerful political players, from police chiefs to governors, inevitably want a cut.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Uranium enriched over 20 percent is considered highly enriched, though most nuclear bombs use the heavy metal purified to 90 percent levels.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 5:29 PM | Add Comment

He claims that even if Mexico were successful in crippling that traffic, the effects on drug abuse in the US would be modest at best because shipments of drugs would simply be shifted to other routes.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

The British clearly had nothing but contempt for American sovereignty.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

A member of the fragmented exile group that says it speaks for Syria's political opposition said Assad's forces had killed "entire families" in Houla in addition to the shelling.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 5:29 AM | Add Comment

“It is a shock,” said Ahmed Kabany, 38, an engineer, after the voting. “I don’t want either one, so I am not going to vote.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

“The economic situation in the whole city from January through April this year is not that optimistic,” he said. “Maintaining the growth rate continues to be very difficult.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Describing Bo's downfall as a serious but isolated case of wrongdoing, Hu urged officials at the meeting to end ideological rifts and rumors ignited by the scandal, the sources added.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 3:15 PM | Add Comment

A Greek opinion poll showed the Syriza party, which is opposed to implementing Greece’s international financial rescue, building on its lead in voter support ahead of elections to be held June 17.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 4:59 AM | Add Comment

But, as history has shown, statistics and ideology don’t always work in a harmonious relationship

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Other studies show that Russians increasingly are calling for democratic values such as free speech and honest elections.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

Dr. Afridi had worked for the CIA previously in Pakistan's tribal areas, and made important contributions to national security, confirming U.S. suspicions that couriers may be protecting bin Laden, a U.S. official said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 2:29 PM | Add Comment

Honduras has received an enormous influx of American military and antidrug support over the past few years,

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

“I feel like it is a dream coming true, and I hope that it lasts.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

“We’re now unified behind a plan to responsibly wind down the war in Afghanistan,” Mr. Obama said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Both men favor a more balanced economic approach that includes measures to foster growth as well as cuts in national budgets.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

His fall from the party’s top echelons has opened a window on how some of his closest allies from his years as a rising official in northeast China became entwined in the social and economic fabric of Chongqing

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

“This whole breakdown in the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan has come down to a fixation of this apology issue,” said Vali Nasr, a former State Department adviser on Pakistan.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Standing next to Obama, Karzai thanked Americans for "your taxpayer money" and said his country looked forward to the day it is "no longer a burden" on the international community.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

London relies heavily on international finance and banking instability would strike a fresh blow to an economy already in recession.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 9:00 PM | Add Comment

France's new leader, Francois Hollande, repeated a pledge during his inaugural visit to Washington last week to pull "combat troops" from Afghanistan this year.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

As these weapons have become more sophisticated, the strategic and ethical questions about them have grown more urgent.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

He is now chief of tank assembly. Mr. Kholmanskikh’s political experience dates back several months to late last year, when he organized a committee to support Mr. Putin.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the U.S. on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

The Kentucky company, Phoenix Products, got the job to produce the pans after Representative Harold Rogers, a Republican who is now the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, added an earmark to a 2009 spending bill.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 5:15 AM | Add Comment

“In my humble opinion, a consolidated database with standardized input consisting of mechanism of injury and resulting wounds, classified by battle and nonbattle injuries, would be something you could actually use.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/18/2012 5:30 PM | Add Comment

“By the time Mladic and his troops murdered thousands in Srebrenica,” Mr. Groome said, “they were well rehearsed in the craft of murder.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/17/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Another American soldier added: “I don’t always need to have them walking in front of me now. I did for a while.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/16/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

The Global Zero study also says that the large reductions make sense in a time of constrained Pentagon spending.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/16/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

“They continue their policy of blackmail. We call on all Greeks, not just leftists, to condemn once and for all the forces of the past.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/15/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

"NATO did everything possible to minimize risks to civilians, but in a complex military campaign, that risk can never be zero," said NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu in a statement.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/14/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

The Zetas began as assassins for the powerful Gulf cartel, but split off in 2010 and have been waging a turf war with other criminal gangs, including the Sinaloa cartel, since then.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/14/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Last month many of the Iraqi police officials who had been participating in the training suddenly refused to attend the seminars and PowerPoint presentations given by the Americans

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

“I notice it all the time,” said Rahmat Shah, 28, a secondhand car seller, who was standing slightly aside from the other men. “I know there is a camera in it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

The People's Bank of China said Saturday it will cut the reserve-requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage points, effective from May 18, which will free up funds to be loaned out by the banking system.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

It was particularly disturbing to see this implacable campaign of intolerance at work during a week in which President Obama announced his support for the expansion of the right to marry to all Americans.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

An apparent U.S. drone attack killed at least six suspected al Qaeda-linked militants in southern Yemen on Saturday

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

By the early 1990s, the Shining Path had spread to Lima. Rebels exploded car bombs in Lima's financial district of San Isidro and assassinated political opponents.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/12/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

The White House said that Mr. Putin and Mr. Obama would meet next month at the next big meeting of world leaders, in Los Cabos, Mexico.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/10/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

You wouldn’t know it listening to leaders in the U.S. and Europe, but weakness in China’s domestic economy has eroded confidence in the yuan.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/10/2012 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Trained as an engineer, he gave up a career in politics in 1983 to buy into a bankrupt construction firm and then presided over a succession of mergers that culminated in the formation of A.C.S. in 1997.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/10/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

“We consider the plan a new start and are prepared to thoroughly carry it out,” said Toshio Nishizawa, president of Tokyo Electric, also known as Tepco.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/10/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

“Even if we had negotiated a text, which would have taken six months, the Chinese could have nullified it,” this official said. “Face is more important in Asian society than any contract.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/9/2012 9:00 PM | Add Comment

Should U.S. Troops Fight the War on Drugs?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/9/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

“The political cost of the country leaving the euro zone would outweigh a lot of the economic ones,” said Almut Möller

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/9/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Part of his empire, which stretches from telephones to mining, was built during Mexico's repeated currency devaluations in 1976 and 1982, when many business owners sold on the cheap.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/9/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Al Qaeda branch in Yemen last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually a double agent

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2012 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Outside the Kremlin walls, Mr. Putin announced his return in another way. The police swept boulevards and squares, detaining anyone they saw wearing white ribbons

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2012 5:45 AM | Add Comment

The other reason the White House won’t be celebrating Sarkozy’s demise too enthusiastically is that it hits a little close to home.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

Nicolas Sarkozy could join the long list of leaders swept aside by Europe's economic crisis or by austerity measures

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/6/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

The Putins are seen so rarely together that it is unclear if she will attend his inauguration on Monday or if she will perform any duties as first lady during Mr. Putin’s new term.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/6/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

On Sunday, France will elect a new president. But Europe’s far right has already won.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/6/2012 7:29 AM | Add Comment

But hardened targets – the targets most relevant to the Israeli strategic goal of setting back Iran’s program – may prove invulnerable to initial strikes

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 7:27 PM | Add Comment

The proposal, Mr. Cohen said, could be a face-saving solution for China, defusing a situation that threatens relations between the two countries.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 12:46 PM | Add Comment

But it is the parliamentary elections in Greece that could, in the short term at least, have a bigger impact on investors.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

Angry Voters Are Set to Punish Main Parties, Leading to New Polls Within Months and Threatening Bailout Package

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

With an uprising in Syria loosening the grip of president Bashar al-Assad, world powers are worried that he could lose control of a secret stockpile of chemical weapons, giving militants access to deadly poison gas.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 5:50 AM | Add Comment

“Whatever the eventual outcome, it can only have a positive influence on China’s human rights situation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

But Mr. Johnson said he did believe it was a mistake for the C.I.A. to use public health workers like Dr. Afridi in developing countries.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

The initiatives are a recognition that the role and clout of Special Operations forces are certain to grow over coming years.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Behind in the polls with the clock ticking on his re- election bid, the incumbent repeatedly accused his rival of lying, while Hollande said his opponent showed he was being “disagreeable.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 3:29 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Obama has long expressed a complicated view of national security that did not neatly fit into old boxes, but it was initially obscured by his strong opposition to the Iraq war.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Chen, who is blind, told CNN that after his escape his wife had been tied to a chair in the family home for two days by police who threatened to beat her to death.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 3:00 AM | Add Comment

“Kill me,” it said. “My killing will not bring back your state.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

The jury is out on whether Afghan forces will be able stave off the Taliban, keep warlords and their militias under control and play a neutral role as political forces struggle for power in the next election.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Obama’s political message, and motivation, for this trip was undeniable. Still, he deserves enormous credit for going after Bin Laden and for the relentless pursuit of Al Qaeda’s leaders in Pakistan.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

How about we stop sending planes and tanks to a country where half the women and a quarter of the men can’t read, and start sending scholarships instead?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Later, she told reporters: "I have always been cautiously optimistic about developments. In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 10:14 AM | Add Comment

This increased likelihood of the illegal export of lethal advanced firearms may put U.S. military, law enforcement or civilian personnel at increased risk."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 9:30 AM | Add Comment

At Gunpoint...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 7:28 AM | Add Comment

The Romney campaign issued a statement saying that it had sought to keep Mr. Grenell from quitting. And according to some Republicans, while Mr. Grenell’s sexual orientation was not an issue for the campaign

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 7:15 AM | Add Comment

“Our goal is not to build a country in American’s image, or to eradicate every vestige of the Taliban,” Mr. Obama said. “These objectives would require many more years, many more dollars and many more American lives.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 5:35 AM | Add Comment

“People have been willing to take such risks for him because more and more people are so outraged by his mistreatment,” he said. “He has become a figure for people, a representative of their own grievances.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Veil of Secrecy

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 5:45 PM | Add Comment

“Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order,” Mr. Romney said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Foreign bribery can takes years to come to the government’s attention, so the five-year statute of limitations can preclude prosecuting those involved in the payments.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 5:31 AM | Add Comment

“We call on the Chinese authorities to exercise utmost restraint in dealing with the matter, including avoiding harassment of his family members or any person associated with him.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

The lapse by Atlanta-based Georgia Tech illustrates how colleges and federal arms-control regulators are often lax in enforcing Americans-only limits intended to prevent theft of military technology from U.S. campuses.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

At the conference, The Jerusalem Post released results of a recent poll indicating that most Israelis would back a military strike on Iran by an American-led coalition but fewer than half by Israel alone.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

He went on to form a rebel force, the Lord’s Resistance Army, bent on overthrowing Uganda’s government and ruling the country with the Ten Commandments. Soon enough, though, Mr. Kony was breaking every one.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Chavez, who has undergone three operations and several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Cuba since June, has said he’ll be fit enough to run as his party’s candidate for another six-year term as president.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

"To Ambassador and Mrs. Graham Martin with appreciation for their service to the nation. From Richard Nixon."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Neither the White House nor the U.S. State Department would confirm that the U.S. was protecting Mr. Chen in Beijing.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

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