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Barack Obama, U.S Foreign Relations, United States April 5, 2013

President Obama’s handlers: Ben Rhodes

(developing story) To those who complain that President Barack Obama doesn’t make foreign policy but instead makes speeches, the following article on one of Obama’s key foreign…

Barack Obama, Culture and Communication, International Law, self-defense, State Department, U.N. Security Council, United States, use of force March 20, 2013

President Obama’s 2013 “Statement on Nowruz” (with links to video and full texts in English, Persian and Arabic)

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“A time to break silence”: Dr. King on the Vietnam war, and President Carter on America’s human rights violations (revised June 28)

“And I’ve long since learned that to be a follower (of) Jesus Christ means taking up the cross. And my bible tells me that Good…