Richard Haass
Council on Foreign Relations president
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- Full Name
- Richard Nathan Haass
- Date of Birth
- 07/28/1951 (58 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, NY
- Undergrad
- Oberlin College
- Graduate
- Oxford University
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side
- Filed Under
- Non-Profit, Politics
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U.S. changing focus of Iran policy (Los Angeles Times)
Posted: 12:23AM on Mar 10, 2010With the apparent failure of Obama's initiative to open negotiations, the administration turns toward support of the opposition and a focus on sanctions targeting the powerful Revolutionary Guard. After keeping a careful distance for the last year, the Obama administration has concluded that the Iranian opposition movement has staying power and has embraced it as a central element in the U.S ...
Council on Foreign Relations is threat to America (Daily Record)
Posted: 2:20PM on Feb 24, 2010On March 3, Richard Haass, who is the president of an elitist clique of internationalists called the Council on Foreign Relations, will speak at Drew University in Madison.
'Real Time with Bill Maher" (TheCelebrityCafe.com)
Posted: 6:34PM on Mar 07, 2010Did Chris Rock get a new show? Brian Donnelly The monologue was tight, the interview was expert and the panel was… oh, who gives a you-know-what, Chris Rock is here! An impromptu appearance by the raunchy comedian about half-way through HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday interrupted a thoughtful debate on the state of health care reform and how long-term economic incentives … ah hell, I ...
Call for Iran sanctions backed by muscle (Asia Times)
Posted: 2:16AM on Mar 04, 2010WASHINGTON - While the ongoing United States military surge in Afghanistan continues to capture the headlines, Iran's nuclear program - and how best to deal with it - is rapidly emerging here as the year's biggest foreign policy challenge.
Nazee Moinian: Is Iran the New Four-Letter Word? (The Huffington Post)
Posted: 10:42AM on Mar 04, 2010I came back from the Hertzliya Conferences, Israel's political follow up to Davos, with the eerie sense that a new four-letter word has emerged in the international arena: Iran.
Iran offers US a learning experience (Asia News Network)
Posted: 9:43PM on Mar 02, 2010The United States has been mobilizing its massive foreign influence to impose new sanctions on Iran.
Paterson mum as scandal claims top N.Y. cop (MSNBC)
Posted: 8:20AM on Mar 03, 2010New York Gov. David Paterson forged ahead with his work day Wednesday, planning a budget meeting in the midst of a rapidly growing scandal that has now claimed two top law enforcement officials and threatens to take down his administration.
TV Junkie: Final Weekend of the Olympics; Sunday has Seinfeld's 'Marriage Ref' (LAist)
Posted: 3:15PM on Feb 26, 2010Lindsey Vonn of the United States reacts to a camera in the finish area after skiing out in the first run of the Women's slalom at the Olympics (AP Photo/Gero Breloer) Weekend Edition Tonight 7:00pm Real Time With Bill Maher HBO - Editor Chrystia Freeland; author Reihan Salam; actress Olivia Wilde; Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. 8:00pm Olympic Winter Games 2010 NBC ...
Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It! (Middle East Online)
Posted: 8:04AM on Mar 01, 2010Despite what you may have read in the New York Times and the Washington Post, the available evidence is that Ahmadinejad did win last June’s presidential election and that efforts – embraced by nearly the entire US news media – to oust him amount to yet another case of seeking the removal of a democratically chosen leader, notes Robert Parry .
Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It! (consortiumnews.com)
Posted: 9:24AM on Feb 27, 2010Many in the West may agree that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an unpleasant politician with a rhetorical tendency to bluster about Iran’s power and to foolishly question the historical accuracy of the Holocaust, but that doesn’t answer the crucial question of whether he was democratically reelected.