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Middle East Echoes Siren Call of Freedom | The Age

February 4, 2011

But according to Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism analyst at the New America Foundation in Washington, the revolt was ''a direct repudiation of al-Qaeda's core argument, which is that the only way to create change in Arab countries is through unmitigated violence''. ...

Al-Qaeda Wants U.S. In Afghan War | The Age

September 22, 2010

In the first nine months of 2010 there were 68 attacks that killed between 363 and 616 people, according to the New America Foundation. ...

Policymakers Beware: Falling $US and Undervalued Yuan a Recipe for Disaster

  • By
  • Thomas Palley,
  • New America Foundation
November 10, 2009 |

Over the past several weeks, the US dollar's depreciation against the euro and yen has grabbed global attention.

In a normal world, a weaker US dollar would be welcome, as it would help the US come to grips with its unsustainable trade deficit.

But because China links its yuan to the US dollar at an undervalued parity, the US dollar's depreciation risks major global economic damage, complicating the recovery from the worldwide recession.

Cheney's Secret Plan Pushed Legal Limits | The Age

July 14, 2009
Peter Bergen, a senior security analyst at the New America Foundation, said the secret operation must have gone further than that to have created such a ...

Iran Tense as Election Anger Mounts | The Age

June 17, 2009
Ken Ballen, head of a group called Terror Free Tomorrow: The Centre for Public Opinion, and Patrick Doherty, of the New America Foundation, revealed that they had done a phone poll across all 30 provinces three weeks before the vote that gave Mr ...

Crackdown Crunches Iran Reformers | The Age

June 14, 2009
Steve Clemons, a director at the New America Foundation, said: "Iran will be tied in knots now — for a long time. What worries me about this is the tendency of Iran's leadership to generate external crises and international focal points to try and ...

US Senate Debate Future of Journalism | The Age

May 7, 2009
"American journalism has entered a phase of what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called 'creative destruction,'" said another witness, former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll. "Unfortunately, at present, the rate of destruction of ...

Steven Clemons the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age | 'N Korea Soon off Terrorist Blacklist'

June 26, 2008

...Steven Clemons, who also writes the blog The Washington Note, said there were signs within the Administration and the State Department that the lifting of the terrorism designation was imminent.

"This is seen as a key confidence-building step by North Korea and China in moving towards North Korea's eventual return to the nuclear non-proliferation club," he wrote.

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