I always keep an eye out for interesting resources that can help me – and others – make sense of the world. I found one a couple weeks ago and I’d like to share it. The U.S. Department of State issues publications called “Background Notes” for 200 nations around the world.

The State Department released a new issue of their Green Diplomacy newsletter. I was reading it and felt like I was reading something from some alternate universe in which climate and the environment held a higher priority than say, subsidies and the highest profits in human history for the Bush administration ‘s cronies in the  Read more »

Yesterday afternoon the US State department held an “On the Record” briefing on US policy in regards to Cluster weapons. If you have ever wondered why news reports from the Reuters or AFP or newspaper articles use such small quotes from press conferences, the material included below should explain why that is a normal occurrence.  Read more »

If deceiving Congress and the American people was not reason enough, maybe heading a department that has lost THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS worth of equipment will convince Condaleezza Rice that she should step down. It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of  Read more »