Bush coopted these Awakening Councils by putting them on the American payroll and promising to get Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to integrate the Council fighters into the Iraqi Army and bring an end to the anti-Sunni de-Baathification policy. ..…
In November, News that American Council on Education, engaged Devos and Office of Civil Rights on behalf of the community to discuss campus policies and to raise concerns about the proposed changes. On Wednesday, the council also submitted comment to DOE arguing that the draft..…
James Goldgeier is professor of international relations at American University, visiting senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, and Library of Congress Chair U.S.- Russia Relations at John W. ..…
Pushed by the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the US Chamber of Commerce, these laws counter popular opinion, and in some cases have even overturned popular referendums.58 These legislative attacks have also impacted other aspects of low-wage work, particularly..…
“It is long since time that analysts and policymakers acknowledge the reality that is evolving right before their eyes,” wrote Stephen Blank, a Senior Fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council, for “Second Line of Defense” last month. . ..…
government officials from the region met San Salvador on January 15 to discuss the details of foreign assistance plan Mexico ambitiously claims will address the root causes of migration by funding job-creation and poverty-reduction Central America and southern Mexico.. ..…
This is in part due to the documentary, Incident at Oglala, directed by Michael Apted and narrated by Robert Redford, and the national bestselling book that everyone from FBI to former South Dakota Bill Janklow tried to block from publication — Peter Matthiessen's In Spirit of Crazy Horse.. ..…