From the monthly archives: July 2009
A little over six months in the Obama Administration and his advisers have positioned the President as the quintessential “Ugly American” in Latin America. Recent moves to punish Honduran democracy will hurt U.S. economic and strategic interests in Honduras and Central America. It will also serve to further fuel a rabid anti-American populism whose sole [...]
The Department of State announced yesterday that India had agreed to end-use monitoring of U.S. defense articles and technology sold to India. The establishment of an end-use monitoring program is required by the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) in order to improve accountability with respect to defense articles and defense services sold, leased, or exported [...]
According to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republicans, “Venezuela’s cooperation on counternarcotics has deteriorated according to a report released today by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
“The report, requested by U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar in February 2008, is an effort by Lugar to ensure that funding for United States Government policies designed to interdict narcotics [...]
The Obama Administration is considering a United Nations Security Council Resolution against the constitutional government of Honduras. Foggy Bottom is allegedly also threatening to cut U.S. foreign aid to Honduras if they continue to refuse to cooperate with efforts to re-install the impeached president. If all this pans out, the Obama Administration would be [...]
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) “appetite for information and technology appears to be insatiable, and the energy devoted to the task enormous.” This was one of the many conclusions of the 1999 report by the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China. Recent convictions [...]
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) lobbies the Congress for approval of a nuclear agreement with the United States, serious export control incidents such as these are the last thing that the Gulf country leaders would want on the minds of Members of Congress that may be on the fence on the proposed 123 deal.
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