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Despite Rhetoric, Obama Still Following Cheney’s Lead in Dictatorial Justice

It seems like the former vice-president is the one piggybacking on the new president’s detainee policy spotlight, but a top foreign-policy analyst argues that, when it comes to tribunals, it’s the other way around: the Obama administration is maintaining the practice of inventing justice as America [...]

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May 14, 2009, 12:58 PM
Seven Reasons Why Obama’s Nuke-Free Utopia Won’t Work

The president wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Sounds like he’s fighting the good fight, but Esquire.com’s global-strategy expert argues that it’s absolutely the wrong one — a fight that might open globalization’s door to World War III.

By Thomas P.M. Barnett

Last month [...]

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Tom’s testimony today

Statement submitted
By 
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett,
Senior Managing Director,
Enterra Solutions LLC 
To 
Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee,
House Armed Services Committee,
United States Congress

26 March 2009 
 
I appear before the subcommittee today to provide my professional analysis of the current global security environment and future conflict trends, concentrating on how accurately–in my opinion–America’s naval services address both in their strategic [...]

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Insight into the developments in Iraq – the big message is that it takes time to build anything worthwhile

Barnett: Develop Iraq to cut deals with world
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
Sunday, August 31, 2008

 With American combat troops now slated to depart Iraq by 2011, our intervention moves into its final phase, with the crucial goal being the [...]

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