tnr.com - 22 days ago
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Scott Gration is an embarrassment. As Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, Gration has a dual mission: to help win justice and peace for the nearly three million Darfuris who currently live in camps after being subjected to genocide by Sudan's government; and to prevent that same odious ...
volokh.com - 25 days ago
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volokh.com —
Continuing our exchange , Henry Farrell says that
the answer is likely yes , noting that “there...
is good evidence that the HRC’s predecessor, the even more widely excoriated UN Commission on Human Rights did have a measurable, and arguably positive, ...
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Does the UN Human Rights Council cause states to treat ...
haaretz.com - 18 days ago
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haaretz.com —
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday
accused Israel of committing greater crimes against Palestinians during...
its war in the Gaza Strip than those for which Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir had been indicted. Erdogan said he would ...
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Turkey PM: Israel war crimes worse than Sudan
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TNR: Fire Gration
Weekly Standard Blog —
The New Republic has kept up a steady drum beat against President Obama's disgrace of an envoy to Sudan, General Scott Gration. Gration has embarrassed himself and the United States repeatedly with statements on the situation in Darfur that range from the delusional to the merely naive. Now the magazine is calling for the administration to fire Gration:
Scott Gration is an embarrassment. As Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, Gration has a dual mission: to help win justice and peace for the nearly three ...
Remainders: Maine
Ben Smith's Blog —
The White House will nationalize 2010.
Huckabee leads the 2012 field, and fewer than a third think Palin is qualified.
Her biographers suggest she makes things up.
Gaspard huddles in Wisconsin.
TNR blasts Gration.
Kerik pleads out.
Tea Partiers take DC.
The left finds extremely bad taste.
Gibbs is sure there's a Jon Voight joke there somewhere.
Hillary bundler Reshma Saujani challenges Maloney.
Clinton's inevitability strategy ...
Accountability Through Web 2.0: A Sudan Case Study
techPresident —
... office wanted the event to be seen as legitimately representing the entire Sudan advocacy movement, not simply a single pressure group. Cautious criticism seemed to have paid off in helping make the dialogue possible. Many Sudan advocacy organizations including STAND and Save Darfur have been publicly supportive of the special envoy, while continuing to push for more transparency and specifics. Gration had been criticized by some activists as "naive" with some going so far as demanding his resignation , but responses from Save Darfur and STAND's parent organization, the ...
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Inspector general's report praises Sudan envoy Scott Gration
thecable.foreignpolicy.com 10/21/2009 —
The administration's special envoy to Sudan, retired Maj.
Gen. J. Scott Gration , may have more than his
fair share of critics in Washington, but according to a new Inspector General's
report, he enjoys not only a special relationship with ...
Obama on Sudan
politico.com 10/19/2009 — The president's statement this morning:
Today, my Administration is releasing a comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan.
For years, the people of Sudan have faced enormous and unacceptable hardship. The ...
Obama Drops Plan to Isolate Sudan Leaders
nytimes.com 10/17/2009 — WASHINGTON The Obama administration has formulated a new policy for Sudan that proposes working with that country’s government, rather than isolating it as President Obama had pledged to do during his campaign. In an interview on Friday, President ...
White House Pushes Back Against Newspaper Profile of Envoy to Sudan
blogs.abcnews.com 9/29/2009 — The White House is pushing back against a profile in the Washington Post of the Obama Administration's Special Envoy for Sudan, Air Force Major General Scott Gration (Ret.). The profile -- "Obama Administration Engages Sudanese Regime It Blasted" -- ...
Pressuring Obama On Sudan
politics.theatlantic.com 9/6/2009 — Violence in Darfur was a hot topic of discussion during the 2008 campaign, one which all three major candidates--President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain--labeled as genocide, and pledges of action and toughness were met with applause. Now, a ...
Two Years to Self Destruct in Sudan
foreignpolicy.com 9/2/2009 — It's not too late to stop Africa's largest country from splitting in half. But Obama needs to act now to prevent the worst.
White House to shift strategy on Sudan
thehill.com 10/18/2009 — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday will debut the Obama administration's new "incentives and pressure" strategy for Sudan. The new approach -- which will emphasize cooperation with the state's embattled government, not isolation -- would ...
U.S. lobbyist accused of violating Sudan sanctions
reuters.com 10/27/2009 — James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. lobbyist has been charged with violating Sudanese sanctions regulations, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign power, money laundering, passport fraud and making false statements, the Justice ...
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