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The FDA has announced it will be monitoring food imported from Japan for radiation, and people are wondering if the world's food supply could now be at risk. And financial markets are echoing those fears. New America's Barry Lynn discusses if this could have been avoided if we created an industrial chain that puts us all at risk, no matter where an earthquake or tsunami may strike.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a surprise trip to Yemen.

... limits on Iran are rather small, but that's something on which the American side is very focused, says Flynt Leverett from the New America Foundation. ...

It would lead to Iranian support of the Taliban and Afghanistan and lead to the very rapid loss of that war by the West,” Anatol Lieven of King's College in ...

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“One way of looking at the end of the Cold War is while Russia interpreted it as either a deal or, at best, as a surrender on terms,” said Anatol Lieven, ...

The outcome of the political crisis in Honduras will be an indication of how strong democracies in America are, believes Andres Martinez, program director at the New America Foundation. Original clip

“Russians interpreted it as either a deal or at best surrender under terms,” said Anatol Lieven.

“Americans and many Europeans as well saw it like 1945, as unconditional surrender on the part of Russia, and tried to make a kind of Versailles-style peace at Russia’s expense which, of course, Russia, like Germany after 1919, was simply unprepared to live under.”

While some aspects of Iran's foreign policy may change depending on who wins the election, Flynt Leverett from the New America Foundation says Tehran's attitude to the US has long been set. “President Ahmadinejad has made it clear that he is open to ...

“Foreigners have a hard time understanding about American politics, that is, in a divided government system like we have here with the separation of powers,” explains James Pinkerton from the New America Foundation. “The Congress really has more power ...

But political analyst James Pinkerton of the New America Foundation thinks that Obama may have promised more than he could actually deliver. “As the saying goes, the more things change – the more they stay the same. There is a kind of protocol ...