Ortega Picks On Costa Rica to Rally Support At Home

Costa Rica to seek OAS meeting in Nicaragua spat
San Jose, Costa Rica - Costa Rica says it will seek a meeting of the Organization of American States' commission of foreign ministers to discuss its border dispute with Nicaragua. The neigboring nations are fighting over a bit of territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. The permanent council of the OAS last week overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for Nicaragua to withdraw its forces and urging both countries t...

Costa Rica to seek OAS meeting in Nicaragua spat
SAN Jose, Costa Rica -- Costa Rica says it will seek a meeting of the Organization of American States' commission of Foreign Ministers to discuss its border dispute with Nicaragua. The neigboring nations are fighting over a bit of territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. The permanent council of the OAS last week overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for Nicaragua to withdraw its forces and urging both countries to cont...

Costa Rica files international court complaint against Nicaragua over border dispute
San Jose, Costa Rica — Costa Rica is taking its border dispute with Nicaragua to the International Court of Justice. Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rene Castro says Costa Rica filed the case with the Netherlands-based court after Nicaragua decided to disregard an Organization of American States resolution that it withdraw Troops from disputed territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. Castro told reporters Thursday he is c...

Costa Rica to seek OAS meeting in Nicaragua spat
SAN Jose, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica says it will seek a meeting of the Organization of American States’ commission of Foreign Ministers to discuss its border dispute with Nicaragua. The neigboring nations are fighting over a bit of territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. The permanent council of the OAS last week overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for Nicaragua to withdraw its forces and urging both co...

Costa Rica takes Nicaragua dispute to world court
SAN Jose, Costa Rica - Costa Rica is taking its border dispute with Nicaragua to the International Court of Justice. Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rene Castro says Costa Rica filed the case with the Netherlands-based court after Nicaragua decided to disregard an Organization of American States resolution that it withdraw Troops from disputed territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. Castro told reporters Thursday he is conf...

Costa Rica takes Nicaragua dispute to world court
SAN Jose, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica is taking its border dispute with Nicaragua to the International Court of Justice. Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rene Castro says Costa Rica filed the case with the Netherlands-based court after Nicaragua decided to disregard an Organization of American States resolution that it withdraw Troops from disputed territory along the San Juan border river. Nicaragua sent Troops to the area last month, angering Costa Rica. Castro told reporters Thursday he is...

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American Foreign Policy After the Mid-Term Elections by Richard N. Haass - Project Syndicate
NEW YORK - Few Americans cast their ballot in the recent mid-term Elections on the basis of Foreign Policy. While it may be difficult for people around the World to comprehend this, given the global reach of the United States, it is an undeniable fact. Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US Economy’s sluggish growth and persistent high Unemployment. The world’s challenges seem far removed from their day-to-day lives. The Cold War ended a generation ago; the terr...

Ortegas Land Grab
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. With the world distracted by currency fights, European Debt problems, and other economic challenges, Nicaragua has quietly invaded and occupied the sovereign territory of Costa Rica. It is an act of naked aggression that deserves to be condemned and resisted by governments everywhere, yet most Americans have probably read little or nothing about it. Here’s a brief synopsis of what happened. At the direction of their government...

Costa Rica's New IVF Law Unacceptable
11.17.10 - Costa Rica's proposed bill on in vitro fertilization (IVF) violates international Human Rights standards, according to a brief the Center submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on November 18. Even though IVF has helped countless couples around the world have Children they desperately want, Costa Rica has outlawed it since 2000. The Center filed an friend-of-the-court brief supporting a Lawsuit against the absolute ban before the IACHR in 2004. In August ...

Bret Stephens: Obama's Air Guitar - WSJ.com
Lately in the news: Beijing provokes clashes with the navies of both Indonesia and Japan as part of a bid to claim the South China Sea. Tokyo is in a serious diplomatic row with Russia over the South Kuril islands, a leftover dispute from 1945. There are credible fears that Tehran and Damascus will use the anticipated indictment of Hezbollah figures by a U.N. tribunal to overthrow the elected Lebanese government. Managua is attempting to annex a sliver of Costa Rica, a nation much too virtuous...

W.Va. Supreme court reverses ruling that Johnson and Johnson mislead public, $4.5M penalty
CHARLESTON, W.VA. — The West Virginia Supreme Court has reversed a ruling and nearly $4.5 million penalty against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson for misleading state physicians about a two Prescription Drugs. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a lower Court erred when it did not let the company defend itself against evidence that federal authorities had said its literature regarding two Drugs was false or misleading. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had twice warned the company tha...

Scalia to visit University of Richmond
RICHMOND, VA. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will speak about the importance of oral arguments at the University of Richmond. Scalia is set to give an address entitled "Do Words Matter?" at the university's Jepson Alumni Center on Friday. He also will sign copies of the book he co-wrote, "Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges." Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, the 74-year-old Scalia is the U.S. Supreme Court's most senior member. Scalia spoke earlier t...

Afghans to Be Shocked, Awed by Novel Experience of Heavy Military Equipment, Explosions
It’s a bit difficult to know what the most ridiculous thing the US Military told Rajiv Chandrasekaran as he was worked on this piece about America’s increasing use of tanks in Afghanistan. The ironic invocation of Shock and Awe sets the table nicely: “The tanks bring awe, shock and firepower,” the officer said. “It’s pretty significant.” “Why do you have to blow up so many of our fields and homes?” a farmer from the Arghandab district asked a...

Afghans to Be Shocked, Awed By Novel Experience of Heavy Military Equipment, Explosions
It’s a bit difficult to know what the most ridiculous thing the US Military told Rajiv Chandrasekaran as he was worked on this piece about America’s increasing use of tanks in Afghanistan. The ironic invocation of Shock and Awe sets the table nicely: “The tanks bring awe, shock and firepower,” the officer said. “It’s pretty significant.” But for my money, what brings the piece home is this novel rationale for blowing things up: “Why do you have t...

Madagascar army rejects use of force against rebels
By Alain Iloniaina ANTANANARIVO | Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:04pm EST ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's army chief insisted on Friday that dialogue was the only way to end a standoff with rebel officers holed up in barracks in the capital, despite earlier government orders to quash the mutiny. The apparent refusal by The Army to use force against fellow Soldiers raises doubts about how much control President Andry Rajoelina still retains over the same Military that helped bring him to office in ...

Same-sex marriage hearing to be shown on C-SPAN
A hearing in San Francisco next month on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex Marriage, can be televised on C-SPAN, a federal appeals Court has decided. The cable station will carry the Dec. 6 hearing before the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals live. Prop. 8 supporters are asking the Court to overturn Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling in August that found the 2008 measure Unconstitutional. Same-sex marriage advocates and attorneys fighting the ...

US-Russian reset in trouble as nuke pact stalls
Stumble This! Is the reset on the rocks? Rumblings in Washington by the resurgent Republican Party against Senate ratification of the New START Nuclear Arms reduction Treaty raise doubts about a fragile U.S.-Russian rapprochement — the "reset" that has been a centerpiece of President Obama's Diplomacy. An unraveling of ties, which hit post-Cold War lows during the Administration of George W. Bush, would erode global stability at a time of burgeoning Security threats and harm international...

Russians curse agent turned traitor
Anna Chapman ... one of 10 spies arrested in the US. Photo: AP Moscow: The Russian double agent who exposed a Kremlin Spy ring operating in the US this year has been unmasked as a former KGB Special Forces soldier who fought in Afghanistan. Russian Intelligence sources told local media that the traitor who gave away Anna Chapman and nine others was Colonel Alexander Poteyev, who served in the KGB's elite Zenith Special Forces unit during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. A criminal case fo...

Kyiv Post. Independence. Community. Trust - Ukraine - Putin triggers topless protest, speculation over his appearance
No Big Deals were announced during Putin’s Oct. 27 visit. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was greeted to Kyiv on Oct. 27 by Topless Protesters campaigning against what they said is Russia’s growing influence in Ukraine. While Putin Vladimir Putin was discussing Gas Deals with his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Azarov, two blocks away, members of the women’s rights group Femen decided to take off most of their clothes and ridicule the Kremlin leader. “We won’t s...

US forces to stay with Afghans after 2014
AFP President Barack Obama has pledged that US Forces will stand by Afghanistan even after NATO-led Troops hand control of the fight against Taliban Insurgents to Afghan Forces in 2014. Far from the dusty battlefields of Afghanistan, where more than 2,200 Allied Troops have fallen in a vicious nine-year-old War, Obama and NATO leaders flew into Lisbon on Friday for a two-day summit to set a handover date. "We'll announce that the transition to Afghan responsibility is about to start, in 2011....

NATO chief: 'Fresh start' with Russia
Published: Nov. 19, 2010 at 8:48 AM NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) meets with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House Sept. 7, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday and Saturday "marks a fresh start in our relations" with Russia. Missile Defense has long been an issue but the Lisbon summit could result in new cooperation between NATO and Russia, Ria Novosti r...

NATO forces to stay with Afghans post-2014 (AFP)
LISBON (AFP) – President Barack Obama pledged Friday that US Forces would stand by Afghanistan even after NATO-led Troops hand control of the fight against Taliban Insurgents to Afghan Forces in 2014. Far from the dusty battlefields of Afghanistan, where more than 2,200 Allied Troops have fallen in a vicious nine-year-old War, Obama and NATO leaders flew in to Lisbon for a two-day summit to set a handover date. "We'll announce that the transition to Afghan responsibility is abou...

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: What Went Wrong
The House Republican policy shop has the rundown on what happened this week with the case of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani -- Al Qaeda Terrorist who participated in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. After being convicted of only 1 of charge of Conspiracy, 284 others were acquitted. The following paper discusses the problem with trying Terrorists as civilians. One line reads, "Treating Terrorist Attacks as simple criminal matters rather than acts of war hinders U.S. efforts to fight ...

Democrats confident in repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' policy
Thirteen Democratic senators signaled strong support Thursday for ending the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and said they are willing to work well into December to ensure passage of a Defense bill that would end the ban on gays openly serving in uniform. The show of support came as Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said this week that he plans to bring the bill up for a vote again after the Thanksgiving recess despite the objections of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz...