http://dir.salon.com/topics/state_department/?source=rss&aim=state_department en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT By Juan Cole Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/04/cole_taliban/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/04/cole_taliban/index.html?source=rss Following the Taliban's money trail all the way back home By Carol Lloyd Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/02/14/mao_to_kissinger/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/02/14/mao_to_kissinger/index.html?source=rss Transcripts recently released by the State Department confirm the Chinese leader's appalling opinion of women. By Tim Grieve Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/30/immunity/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/30/immunity/index.html?source=rss State Department granted immunity to Blackwater employees in shooting incident. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/11/torture_letter_to_hughes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/11/torture_letter_to_hughes/index.html?source=rss 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 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/index.html?source=rss Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/24/resignation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/24/resignation/index.html?source=rss Assistant secretary of state gives no reason for his departure. By Tim Grieve Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/23/iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/23/iraq/index.html?source=rss Condi, you're doing a heck of a job. By P.W. Singer Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/02/blackwater/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/02/blackwater/index.html?source=rss 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 Tim Grieve Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/09/26/state/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/09/26/state/index.html?source=rss Blackwater and the State Department to Congress: Back off. By Tim Grieve Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/09/17/blackwater/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/09/17/blackwater/index.html?source=rss What does the State Department know about the Iraqis' decision to ban its private security firm? Not much, apparently. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/index.html?source=rss The White House fears that the former secretary of state will finally tell the truth about planning for the Iraq war. By Tim Grieve Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/06/20/number/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/06/20/number/index.html?source=rss Diplomacy in Iraq, the Bush administration way. By Michael Scherer Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/19/halliburton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/19/halliburton/index.html?source=rss Or, how the Alaskan Inupiat Eskimos got a no-bid contract in South America from the U.S. government. By Joe Conason Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/05/04/condi_rice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/05/04/condi_rice/index.html?source=rss That attitude, says Marcus Mabry in his new biography of the secretary of state, has seriously harmed the United States. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/19/wolfowitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/19/wolfowitz/index.html?source=rss 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 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/01/10/condi_rice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/01/10/condi_rice/index.html?source=rss 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 Tim Grieve Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/11/27/zelikow/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/11/27/zelikow/index.html?source=rss Philip Zelikow will resign by the end of the year. By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/09/07/condi_rice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/09/07/condi_rice/index.html?source=rss 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 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/04/06/rice_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/04/06/rice_iraq/index.html?source=rss The U.S. is sending diplomats into Iraq, but refusing to give them military protection. No wonder Foreign Service morale is collapsing. By Julia Scott Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/17/darfur/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/17/darfur/index.html?source=rss 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 Ian Williams Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/2005/05/13/bolton_un/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/2005/05/13/bolton_un/index.html?source=rss 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 Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/28/powells_revenge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/28/powells_revenge/index.html?source=rss 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 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/14/john_bolton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/14/john_bolton/index.html?source=rss 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 John Feffer Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/15/democracy_act/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/15/democracy_act/index.html?source=rss 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 Ian Williams Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/09/bolton_un/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/09/bolton_un/index.html?source=rss Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face.