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In an interesting, albeit strange development, former President Bill Clinton has been named UN Special Envoy to Haiti, a country which the former President has been very interested in for some time. There is no doubt he is extremely popular there and can use his status to bring attention to the many social issues [...]

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The Dalai Lama will be coming to Boston April 30th-May 3, 2009 and will be giving a series of lectures as well as being the guest of honor at the new Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. I am going to one of his workshops this upcoming Saturday.
The Tibetan-American community [...]

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President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exceeded expectations at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad/Tobago. There was much hand-wringing by the US corporate media with respect to what might happen if, God forbid, Venezuela’s nutty President, Hugo Chavez, and President Obama happened to bump into each other at the Summit. [...]

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It doesn’t matter which President a First Lady is married to because she will ultimately wind up in the cross-hairs of the fashion and etiquette police.
Hillary Clinton was largely panned as having no style during her days in the White House (although these days she seems much more fashion-conscious and quite successfully so) [...]

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Obama’s foreign policy team has been working overtime in an attempt to help stabilize the various crisis currently on their plate.
Secretary Clinton was in the Hague where she signaled a willingness to work with Iran on shared interests in the Afghanistan region and while there was no formal meeting with the representative of Iran, special [...]

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The most enraging thing about the billions of dollars private contractors have been squandering with their profitable contracts in Iraq (and other places), is how there are so many reports piling up that they are not even providing the very services required under the contract, or worse, doing such a piss-poor job that it is [...]

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Hillary Clinton just returned from a two day trip to Mexico, where she did something a US Secretary of State has not done for quite a while- injected some humility into her speeches, Q&A’s and demeanor. And guess what? It seems to be helping the United State’s image abroad which will benefit us [...]

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Sarah Palin disses former staffers and they are none too pleased.

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Over at the Washington Note, Steve Clemons has an interesting post (and video) about an interview he did yesterday with a member of Palestinian Fatah who supports a pro-unity government. It is a very interesting dialogue and worth checking out. The post is here and there is a video link once you get [...]

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A new CNN poll finds that not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton’s job approval (as Secretary of State) is high among both Democrats and Republicans. Granted, we are only in the beginning of the first term, but she has a lot of political clout and popularity which she can use to promote US interests abroad.

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