More at http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102 Gareth Porter: While Obama talks carrots and sticks, Iran questions sitting at the table
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More at http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102 Gareth Porter: While Obama talks carrots and sticks, Iran questions sitting at the table
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A scene from David Zucker’s “An American Carol.”
This scene shows what happens when nations try to negotiate with evil dictators.
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Yektafar: Obama says Iran should unclench its fist, but who is avoiding negotiations?
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Obama administration decides to bypass bi-partisan conference committe for Health Care Negotiations. Republicans and the public again left out of the picture so that Democrats can once again hold secret negotiations. What happened to promises of Healthcare negotiations broadcast on C-SPAN thats was promised by Obama on at least 8 seperate occasions?????
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Video of Obama stating he will televise the Health care Debate on C-Span. Since he has not kept his promise, most of the disorder at town hall meetings can be attributed to his failure to keep his campaign promises
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Affordable health insurance for everyone does not need to be expensive. Insurances are meant to distribute the risk of a catastrophe. Health catastrophes do happen, but they can be taken care easily with a catastrophic health insurance that is inexpensive. Therefore, the government could provide every American with a catastrophic health insurance. A Catastrophic Health Insurance kicks in at about $5,000. If you have a Catastrophic Health Insurance paid by the government, then you may choose not to get an insurance from your employer and negotiate a better salary. That difference in salary will be likely more than 5,000 dollars. Every American would win and the government too.
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Jim Gossett as William Shatner sets the country straight about the new Cap & Trade rules. As heard first on the Lars Larson radio show. Find more at www.jimgossett.com
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/26/Chasing_the_Flame_Sergio_Vieira_de_Mello
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Senior Adviser to Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama, revisits the debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton on whether the U.S. should negotiate with hostile governments without preconditions.
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Samantha Power on Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.
Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of the greatest humanitarians of our time, and while surprisingly few people recognize his name, his role in our world becomes abundantly clear when you describe the details surrounding his death.
He died on the afternoon of August 19, 2003, when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives alongside the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, killing over twenty people working there for the United Nations. Vieira de Mello, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy, was buried beneath the wreckage, under the UN flag itself.
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World is as much a biography of Vieira de Mello as it is a riveting account of the last four decades of global conflicts and our attempts to understand and resolve them.
Despite the tragic outcome in Iraq, the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello yields vital lessons for us today, providing us with his unique expertise on how to unite as nations, rebuild our international institutions, and establish peace and security in those parts of our world that need them the most – Cody’s BooksSamantha Power (born 1970) is a journalist, writer, and professor. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Power was raised in Ireland before emigrating to the United States in 1979. She attended Lakeside High School in Atlanta, GA. She was a member of the cross country team as well the basketball team. She is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. From 1993 to 1996, she covered the Yugoslav wars for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic.
She is a scholar of foreign policy especially as it relates to human rights, genocide, and AIDS. Her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2003. She endorses the Genocide Intervention Network.
She spent 2005-06 working in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama as a foreign policy fellow, where she was credited with sparking off and directing Obama’s interest in the Darfur conflict. She has also been involved with efforts to increase media attention about the Darfur conflict. In 2006, she contributed to Screamers, a movie telling about Darfur, Armenian and other genocides of 20-21st centuries.
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