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Former Official: Al-Qaida 'Marginalized' | United Press International

April 28, 2012

Peter Bergen, a CNN national security analyst and author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad," said Zawahiri "inherited a bit of a lemon." "Their record of failure speaks for itself: No success in the west since the ...

New iPad is Said to Be Data Glutton | United Press International

March 23, 2012

"For the time being, it looks like consumers who are budget-conscious will need to reserve some of their high-bandwidth applications for times they are at home or connected to a WiFi network," said Michael Calabrese, director of the future of wireless project at the New America Foundation think tank.

 

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Report: 3 Gop Candidates Would Up Debt | United Press International

February 24, 2012

"As we enter the thick of the campaign season, no one can ignore the debt issue," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which supports debt-reduction efforts. "This report is designed to inform the public on ...

Gop Campaign Calculating | United Press International

February 24, 2012

But as of this week, a report from US Budget Watch, a project of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says voting for any of the Republican candidates except Rep. Ron Paul of Texas would be a vote for an increase in the federal ...

Obama Won Some, Lost Some Budget Battles | United Press International

January 23, 2012

And probably more than in previous years," said Jason Peuquet, research director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Obama's proposal for increased taxes on gas and oil, however, were completely ignored, Peuquet said, as were reduced ...

Ethics of Drone Warfare | United Press International

December 8, 2011

From 2004-07, the United States launched a total of nine drone strikes, followed by 33 in 2008, 53 in 2009, and 118 in 2010, and 70 in the first 10 1/2 months of 2011, a study by the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank, stated. ...

Nixon Library Chief Resigning | United Press International

November 12, 2011

Timothy Naftali said he would be joining the New America Foundation think tank and completing a book on Nixon's political rival, John F. Kennedy. "I have much broader intellectual interests than Richard Nixon's presidency, and I'm going back to them," ...

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Operations Chief's Killing Hurts Al-Qaida | United Press International

August 30, 2011

"With the death of guys like Atiyah, it's increasingly likely that the al-Qaida affiliate groups are just going to start doing their own thing," Brian Fishman, a terrorism analyst at the New America Foundation, told the Times. ...

UN Examines Media in Arab Spring | United Press International

July 14, 2011

Evgeny Morozov, a contributing editor for Foreign Policy magazine who examines the political effects of the Internet, wrote in The Guardian newspaper in London in March that it was too early to give credit to social media. "One reason we keep talking ...

Keeping it Simple | United Press International

June 15, 2011

In a clear message delivered to the Annual Conference of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in Washington Tuesday, Bernanke suggested simple math would do well. Regarding the threat of not raising the debt ceiling, he simply said cut it out ...

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