Following the Taliban's money trail all the way back home
By Juan Cole Sep 4, 2009
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Transcripts recently released by the State Department confirm the Chinese leader's appalling opinion of women.
By Carol Lloyd
February 14, 2008
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State Department granted immunity to Blackwater employees in shooting incident.
By Tim Grieve
October 30, 2007
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Your duty is to defend America's reputation in the world. To do so, you must persuade the Bush administration to renounce its abhorrent and hypocritical policy on torture.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 11, 2007
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Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 4, 2007
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Assistant secretary of state gives no reason for his departure.
October 24, 2007
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Condi, you're doing a heck of a job.
By Tim Grieve
October 23, 2007
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Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win wars like that in Iraq.
By P.W. Singer
October 2, 2007
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Blackwater and the State Department to Congress: Back off.
By Tim Grieve
September 26, 2007
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What does the State Department know about the Iraqis' decision to ban its private security firm? Not much, apparently.
By Tim Grieve
September 17, 2007
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The White House fears that the former secretary of state will finally tell the truth about planning for the Iraq war.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 9, 2007
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Diplomacy in Iraq, the Bush administration way.
By Tim Grieve
June 20, 2007
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Or, how the Alaskan Inupiat Eskimos got a no-bid contract in South America from the U.S. government.
By Michael Scherer
June 19, 2007
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That attitude, says Marcus Mabry in his new biography of the secretary of state, has seriously harmed the United States.
By Joe Conason
May 4, 2007
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Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 19, 2007
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After signaling support for James Baker's Iraq proposals, Condi caved and stood faithfully by the president's failing policies -- assuring her irrelevance, and that of the State Department.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 10, 2007
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Philip Zelikow will resign by the end of the year.
By Tim Grieve
November 27, 2006
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Like Karen Hughes and Harriet Miers, Condi Rice dotes on her boss and shields him from critics. Meanwhile, the State Department suffers neglect.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 7, 2006
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The U.S. is sending diplomats into Iraq, but refusing to give them military protection. No wonder Foreign Service morale is collapsing.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 6, 2006
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A professor urges action on Darfur, saying the U.S. should be embarrassed about declaring the violence genocide while doing so little to stop it.
By Julia Scott
May 17, 2005
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Even if he's ultimately confirmed, those who spoke out against him have signaled to the world that he doesn't represent all Americans -- and ensured he won't wield a big stick.
By Ian Williams
May 13, 2005
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Colin Powell, no longer the loyal soldier, rises up to help stop conservative hard-liner John Bolton from becoming U.N. ambassador.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 28, 2005
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If Bolton is confirmed, it will be because senators believe that the evidence making him unfit for the U.N. job, unearthed at their own hearings, is false.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 14, 2005
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A new bill proposes to rid the world of dictators by 2025. But critics deride it as a pie-in-the-sky cover for Bush's failures.
By John Feffer
March 15, 2005
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Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face.
By Ian Williams
March 9, 2005
NATO bombs -- but is Taliban getting U.S. aid?
Mao to Kissinger: Take our wives. Please!
Just another "accountability moment"?
An open letter to Karen Hughes
Red, white and mercenary in Iraq
The dark truth about Blackwater
Will the real Colin Powell stand up?
What Ted Stevens, Bolivian cocaine and Halliburton have in common
Condi Rice never looks back
Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem
Shuttle without diplomacy
Bush's top female enabler
Cannon fodder at State
"There's just no way I can walk away"
The general's revenge
Glenn Greenwald
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