by Sam Hickey | Nov 5, 2015 | Monitor
On Monday November 2, 2015, Ambassador Thomas Pickering visited American University to address Improving the Relationship Between the U.S. and Iran. Ambassador Pickering has served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to the United...
by Sam Hickey | Nov 2, 2015 | Monitor
On Monday, October 26th at the Council on Foreign Relation’s, Foreign Affairs and the International Crisis Group (ICG) in New York hosted an event on “Reality, Risk, and Potential: Managing Today’s Conflicts.” The event featured panels of experts consisting of think...
by Sam Hickey | Nov 2, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Airline Rules out Technical Failure or Pilot Error in Crash Neil MacFarquhar / The New York Times Senior Officials at Metrojet, the charter airline company whose Airbus passenger plane crashed in Egypt over the weekend, killing all 224 people aboard, on...
by Sam Hickey | Oct 15, 2015 | Monitor
On December 28, 1977, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was signed into law, which allows a president to intervene in any U.S. business transactions with a foreign entity if a state of emergency is declared. President Bill Clinton declared in...
by Sam Hickey | Oct 5, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Medical Charity MSF Demands Independent Probe into Strike on Afghan Hospital Mirwais Harooni, Andrew Macaskill / Reuters Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) on Sunday demanded an independent international inquiry into a suspected U.S. air strike...
