#Sanctions

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was grilled on CNN recently about South Korea’s new anti-leaflet law. What is the anti-leaflet law, and why is this issue being elevated by
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I'm a JCPOA supporter. @mdubowitz and @rich_goldberg write that JCPOA advocates "avoid debating the many fallacies inherent in returning to the agreement". Challenge accepted. [Thread]https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1
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Let's talk about the Director of NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE."The Director of National Intelligence serves as the head of the Intelligence Community.""The U.S. Intelligence Community is a coalition of 17 agencies &
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Borrell and Lavrov talks:* EU's top diplomat repeats demand for @navalny to be released but says no plans for any sanctions should Moscow ignore that* Borrell also calls for Russia's
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A must read. Also mega-scary in a way because Chinese experts don't think that the Indian nuclear arsenal, howsoever small it may be at this point, provides India with a
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Let's take a simple example of how logically incoherent supposed Biden foreign policy is and the contradictions that will need to be resolved. Biden administration wants to work with allies.
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1. The US could but does not restrain #Pakistan for its use of proxies with sanctions. There will be no clear route to restrain them and their use of proxies
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Around 2.4 million people including *more than half a million children* were unable to get the essentials needed to eat, stay dry, heat and clean their homes (before COVID-19)A on
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Kirkland & Ellis, an elite law firm facing off against Trump, has a little mess on its hands. An associate left a "harassing" voicemail for one of Trump's lawyers. It's
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Ooh, allow me to explain: In announcing snap-back UN sanctions on Iran this afternoon, President Trump is demonstrating that his administration is using PM al-Kadhimi’s visit as a prop, and
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Global financial infrastructures like SWIFT have been allies of US foreign policy. But what if they stop cooperating when the US goes after kleptocracy and tax evasion? I consider this
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Minister @cathmartingreen is launching general scheme of new bill to regulate social media - full document /1. https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d8e4c-online-safety-and-media-regulation-bill/#general-scheme-of-the-online-safety-media-regula
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The Biden-Harris agency review teams are heavily represented by personnel from corporate board rooms, the professional managerial class & Beltway think tanks. It's a recipe for Obama 2.0A quick thread
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A quick thread on this most recent Tennessee coaching search: 1) Said yesterday it would make sense if White hires Leipold or Heupel. Someone he already knows well, no adjustment
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In Russia, the Communist Party is the actual opposition. Navalny is not an opposition leader. He has no popular support. His story is an elaborate, multi-episode dog-and-pony show used in
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1. “Economic Murder”, the deliberate, systematic and legal murder of citizens that are “problematic” for the interests of wealth and power. The deaths of those who are not economically or
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