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The Empire Strikes Back: U.K. Beats U.S. In 'Soft Power', Survey Says

Source: Forbes, Nov 18 2012, 8:27am CST

On the news stands in the City of London, Monacle magazine says the U.S., despite all the hoopla around Barack Obama, has lost its lure as world leader. In its place, is the U.K., post-Tony Blair (talk about a slap in the face). Soft ...

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U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes

Source: The New York Times  |   May 22 2013, 3:11pm CDT

WASHINGTON — One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakis ...

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Obama' popularity in NC slips

Source: Under the Dome  |   May 22 2013, 2:45pm CDT

President Barack Obama's standing in North Carolina has dropped in the state, according to a new poll. The president had an approval rating now stands at 45 percent positive and 53 percent negative, according to ...

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"I think America vastly undervalues the importance of soft power. It has a tendency to focus on the tangible and the concrete"


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President Obama’s Campaign Tech Team Insists That GIF Is Pronounced With a Hard G

Source: New York Magazine  |   May 22 2013, 1:40pm CDT

David Karp (soft-G proponent) gives the lifetime achievement award to Steve Wilhite (soft-G zealot). The debate over the proper pronunciation of GIF, always a hot topic in the world of Internet nerds, was front and center at last night's ...

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UK and France to join global anti-corruption initiative

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 22 2013, 1:39pm CDT

Britain and France have both announced they are to join a groundbreaking initiative to expose systematic corruption, mainly in Africa, requiring mining and oil companies to reveal the taxes paid to national governments and the value of t ...

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Obama dials back drone strikes: 3 reasons why

Source: Christian Science Monitor  |   May 22 2013, 1:33pm CDT

How's this for a paradox: US drone strikes are now declining under President Obama – the man who made drone strikes a primary element of his counterterrorism strategy. President Obama has, in some ways, become known as the "drone president ...

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Obama expected to address drone justification, achievements

Source: United Press International  |   May 22 2013, 10:35am CDT

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- President Obama is expected to discuss Thursday at the National Defense University is justification for drone strikes and what they achieved, observers said. Obama also may discuss the decline in the use of unmanned aircr ...

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Kirsten Powers: Obama Admin Treats Whistleblowers As Criminals, Leakers As Heroes … “If he’s so offended by this, who has been fired?”

Source: Scared Monkeys  |   May 22 2013, 10:11am CDT

“I actually haven’t seen the president express real outrage other than giving lip service to it.” It would appear that Kirtsen Powers has lost that loving feeling for Barack Obama. It took the scandal against the media for Powers to finally come to ...

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Huge Cut in Obama's Anti-Terrorism Drone Strikes

Source: NewsMax  |   May 22 2013, 9:46am CDT

The number of targeted drone strikes aimed at killing suspected terrorists is well down, despite their use being central to President Barack Obama's anti-terror strategy. The rate of strikes peaked in Pakista ...

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National Security Brief: Drone Strikes Decline

Source: Think Progress  |   May 22 2013, 8:03am CDT

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll foundhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/300921-poll-majority-suspicious-of-benghazi-cover-up that a majority of Americans believe that the Obama administration is trying ...

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