... as to which candidate is favored by which foreign leaders. While mainstream American media is still basically covering the race with horrified fascination at the popularity... ... to handle world affairs. In essence, Democrats always have to defend against the accusation of being foreign policy weaklings. This accusation is never leveled against... ... quite some time, but it was surely exacerbated by 9/11 and the new emphasis on national security. It was a major part of the lead-up to the 2004 election, when some analysts warned, ‘if Democrats are to have any hope of returning to power in 2004, or even...
Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when ... ... understanding this process (and more importantly the failure of the intelligence community and state department to make inroads against ... ... reality.
Reality in America, if you are not able to hook into upward mobility and access privileged success, is a fairly dull and ... ... could ever think plausible.
Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand ...
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in the formal National Security Strategy (NSS) of President Obama with actual testimony given by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In 2010 the NSS asserted that the U.S. would endeavor to ‘build a stable, substantive, multidimensional relationship with Russia, based on mutual interests.’ What’s more, the NSS called Russia a 21st century ...
... supports the Russian side: it is more accurate to describe Putin’s hostility toward America as one far more deeply rooted in frustration. But instead, America characterizes... ... state. In reality no such explicit initiatives can be found backing up such radical accusations. More calm analyses find Russia simply not accepting being told what to do... ... naïve to think that open American support and encouragement, at least through formal media declarations and diplomatic speeches, did not have an impact on increasing the...
... interesting, really does not amount to more than just gossip and hearsay. Worse, American media and political analysts adopted it almost wholly as fact rather than as one perspective... ... values. As such it will inevitably always be a threat to U.S. interests and global security. By all indicators, Russia is a threat not just to itself and its immediate... ... placed the Democratic Party as squarely pessimistic and adversarial in its attitude toward Russia as the Republicans. Indeed, in today’s environment of divided government...
... Centre or the Brookings Institution in Washington DC are regular go-to places for the media when seeking expert opinion and analysis. However, these centers of independent... ... foreign policy formulation is to determine a country’s own national interests and security dilemma and craft an independent position that can best achieve optimal goals... ... force-influence its foreign policy. So why should Russia? It is this very simple and straightforward question that seems to never be asked by what are otherwise august media institutions...
... techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence and information. Since that release there has been ... ... that is supposedly now over, the one we used to call the Global War on Terror. So the 'shock' must be to learn ... ... after 9/11 is the bogus semantics game being played out with the media now in the report’s aftermath. “Yes we did torture.... ... alright, maybe I cannot prove that was actually the case, a direct causal link, but I am pretty sure SOME information EVENTUALLY came ...
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ ... ... information. Others pointed to embedded preconceptions within the Intelligence Community itself, making it impossible to jump off ... ... ‘factor wars’ designed to show that one favorite causal factor is more important than another, concentrating instead ... ... to develop degree programs focused on intelligence and national security, they have followed the military-friendly school model,...
Common complaints within Intelligence Studies about the examination of foreign intelligence ... ... Perhaps most interesting and fairly unexpected is how in terms of security affairs American understanding about Russia seems to be ... ... officials within the Russian Federation since the end of the Cold War to decry a new foreign policy strategy and to instigate new ... ... intense historical and cultural impacts, possibly going back thousands of years. Organizational cultural conditions will instead ...
... country since 2004, meaning there has basically been war in Yemen as long as there has been war in Iraq.... ... against. The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that America ... ... these strikes are actually being done by the American Intelligence Community, namely the CIA, in an arena ... ... government has always made connections and leveled accusations of Iranian involvement and support to the ... ... and a potential danger to their sovereign national security interests in the Gulf and beyond. So while ...
