(Mint Press)– On Thursday, a CNN interview on Wolf Blitzer’s program, The Situation Room, offered a rare opportunity to advance talks on the release of Alan Gross, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) who was detained in Cuba in 2006 on charges of plotting against the state. Speaking to […]
(Mint Press)– On Thursday, a CNN interview on Wolf Blitzer’s program, The Situation Room, offered a rare opportunity to advance talks on the release of Alan Gross, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) who was detained in Cuba in 2006 on charges of plotting against the state. Speaking to […]
(MintPress)—In his annual budget meeting with Congress, President Barack Obama expressed his desire to establish an $800 million support fund for democracies emerging from the Arab Spring. The President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 included a total of $51.6 billion in funding for the State Department and foreign assistance, just 1% of the […]
(MintPress)—In his annual budget meeting with Congress, President Barack Obama expressed his desire to establish an $800 million support fund for democracies emerging from the Arab Spring. The President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 included a total of $51.6 billion in funding for the State Department and foreign assistance, just 1% of the […]