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Writer: Desmond Butler

May 16, 2013
8:44 pm

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) with US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting last March (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, Erdogan talk Syria, say ‘Assad needs to go’

US remains reluctant to take the kind of action demanded by Turkey, including more aggressive steps to topple the regime

By Desmond Butler

April 23, 2013
8:31 am

Emergency workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Charles Krupa)

Boston tragedy another test for US-Russia ties

Understanding how the brothers Tsarnaev became radicalized is of paramount importance to Moscow as well as Washington

By Bradley Klapper and Desmond Butler

February 9, 2013
8:29 am

US Army officers stand at a Patriot anti-missile battery site during a joint Israeli-US air-defense exercise in Tel Aviv in 2009. (photo credit: Ziv Koren/Flash90)

Flaws found in US missile shield against Iran

One fix for multi-billion-dollar Europe-based interceptors is technically unfeasible, another could be diplomatically explosive

By Desmond Butler

October 20, 2012
11:00 am

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivering a foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va. in early October. Romney promises to stand up to Russia and Vladimir Putin if he's elected president. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Romney promises to stand up to Russia, America’s ‘biggest foe’

Some analysts believe he’ll have to tone down his anti-Moscow rhetoric if elected

By Desmond Butler

February 13, 2012
8:07 am

USAID worker Alan Gross arriving at a Havana courthouse for his trial in March 2011. (photo credit: AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

Jailed US contractor was trying to set up satellite link for Cuba’s Jews

Review reveals Alan Gross wanted to establish uncensored Internet service for Jewish community

By Desmond Butler