this mystery writer, Foggy B, keeps coming back to OpenJ with well-researched stuff and challenging but interesting things to say. So as of now he’s our first official anonymous contributor. welcome aboard, Foggy Bottom, wherever you are.
by Foggy Bottom
The international community has recently been racked by a string of nuclear crises: Iraq, North Korea, India, [...]
Foggy appeared out of nowhere and started submitting some hard hitting policy pieces. We know his name, Foggy Bottom, seems to refer to a neighborhood in Washington and that he seems to have a perspective shaped by governmentality. He’s taught us some things about assumptions and interpretation already, so he’s living up to the great [...]
by Foggy Bottom
While unrest was simmering across Europe and the Muslim world in the wake of the recent row surrounding the Mohammed cartoons, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called to the newly minted Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay to congratulate him on his appointment. Amidst the light and amicable banter that accompanies such [...]
by Foggy Bottom
On Saturday February 4th, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council. For the US, this was a significant and long awaited diplomatic victory. Since 2003, it had been actively lobbying the member-states of the IAEA Board of Governors to sanction Iran for technical violations [...]
by Foggy Bottom
Canadians live in a vast and inhospitable land. In discussing France’s wars with England over Quebec in the 18th Century, Voltaire once lamented on waste of blood and treasure committed for “quelques arpents de neige.” It is time for Canada to break from the tyranny of cold. It is time that Canada annexes [...]
Foggy Bottom breaks it down.
On Wednesday January 25th, against the prediction of the foreign policy analysts, the Islamist party won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, claiming 76 of the 132 parliamentary seats and securing a majority in parliament. While many Palestinians genuinely support the goals of Hamas, many others were simply voting in anger against [...]
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