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Obama finally comes to aid of USAID

Just don't call him the Shah of Development...

By Samuel Knight

President Obama has finally nominated an administrator to USAID ten months after taking office. The White House announced last week that it endorsed Rajiv Shah, the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics at the Department of Agriculture

Why Afghanistan is the new post-Cold War Berlin From the OhMyGov! Op-Ed page By Nemat SadatTwenty years ago today, the fall of the Berlin Wall, brought German re-unification, revolutionary marches throughout Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union's disintegration. While the war of ideas that shattered the Iron Curtain was waged in Europeread more

Gaddafi puts the “rant” in “tyrant”OMG's Foreign Aid & Diplomacy Roundup By Samuel KnightThe UN General Assembly met in New York this week, where world leaders pledged to cooperate more when dealing with major global problems, such as the credit crunch and climate change. Apparently Muammar Gaddafi didn’t get the memo. In his first ever tripread more

Foreign Aid & Diplomacy Report — Sept 18, 2009From Afghanistan to Venezuela, what the U.S. is watching By Samuel KnightKarzai: What fraud? Afghan President Hamid Karzai denied claims that up to a quarter of votes cast in the recent Afghan Presidential election were fraudulent, and told the world that any fraud perpetrated during the election “wasn’t that big.” Accordingread more

America's Addiction to Oil

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