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Give Us Netanyahu. Please. | NPR

February 9, 2009
Israelis go to the polls Tuesday for parliamentary elections. Steve Clemons, political blogger for The Washington Note and director of American Strategy at the New America Foundation, explains why he thinks the U.S. needs Israelis to elect Benjamin Netanyahu as their prime minister. Link to audio
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The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 9 | Reason Online

January 23, 2009
On January 21, the day after Barack Obama's inauguration, Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sat down with David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter, author of Comeback, and New Majority impresario and Steve Clemons, of the New America Foundation and The Washington Note to talk about the new president's speech, the tone of Washington, and much more.
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Everything's Coming Up Hillary

  • By
  • Steven Clemons,
  • New America Foundation
January 13, 2009 |

In Hillary Clinton’s Senate confirmation hearing today, one person pounded the table and pushed the secretary-of-state-designate hard on discrepancies between her foreign policy views and those of Barack Obama, on her seeming softness now on Iran and Syria, and on conflicts of interest with her husband’s financial web of global deal-making and do-gooding.

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Obama Camp 'Prepared to Talk to Hamas' | The Guardian

January 8, 2009
The total isolation of Hamas that we promulgated under Bush is going to end," said Steve Clemons, the director of the American Strategy Programme at the New ...
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All in the Family | MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show

December 18, 2008
Steve Clemons discusses the implications of a potential Caroline Kennedy appointment:

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President Obama's First 100 Days | Salon

December 14, 2008
Three experts share their opinions about what is likely to happen after Obama takes the oath of office. Steve Clemons is a senior fellow and director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute. ...
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Hillary's Baptism of Fire | Ya Libnan

December 12, 2008
Steve Clemons, a director at the New America Foundation, says: "Clinton will be playing on a three-level chess board. There's the international economic ...
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Obama's Ross: Our Loss | The Nation.

December 10, 2008
Steve Clemons, at the New America Foundation, has a clever idea which, he says, came from Brzezinski: why not name Ross to be US ambassador to Israel? ...
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Change or More of the Same? Obama Introduces National Security Team | Democracy Now

December 8, 2008
We speak with investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation magazine and Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation [includes rush transcript]. ...
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Change or More of the Same? Obama Introduces National Security Team | Democracy Now

December 2, 2008
We speak with investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation magazine and Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation. President-Elect Barack Obama ...
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Obama National-Security Team 'Covers the Bases' for New Policy | Bloomberg

December 1, 2008
The activists needn't worry, said Steve Clemons, an analyst at the Washington-based New America Foundation. Obama retains the final say, and appointing ...
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Bloggers Split on National Security Team | NationalJournal.com

December 1, 2008
Steve Clemons thinks that Clinton is "going to push women's rights, democracy, human rights, poverty reduction and the like -- but I think she is going to ...
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Steve Clemons in Middle East Times | 'Outside View: Russia's New Start'

November 19, 2008
According to blogger and foreign policy expert Steve Clemons, he has regularly "opposed false trade-offs between embracing Eastern European nations (and even helping to create new ones) and Russia's serious national priorities." LINK
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Steve Clemons in RCR Wireless News | 'Obama Presidency Will Draw from Campaign’s Tech ‘Lessons Learned’'

November 11, 2008
At a post-election think tank forum on Nov. 6, New America Foundation Senior Fellow Steve Clemons warned of dire challenges ahead for the next Administration despite the enthusiasm of Obama’s supporters. “We’ve come from the Housing Bubble to the Obama Bubble,” Clemons said. “Something or someone is going to pop that bubble.
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Steven Clemons in The National | 'Obama’s Chief of Staff Carries Strong Ties to Israel'

November 6, 2008
“My greatest fear about Emanuel is that he might perpetuate a ‘false choice’ orientation towards Israel in Middle East affairs that he’s going to have to compensate for and get under control,” said Steven Clemons, the founder of the Washington Note website and the director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.

“There are no rational alternatives in the Middle East than actually delivering on a Palestinian state and finally putting the Middle East peace business out of business,” he said
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Steve Clemons in the Guardian | 'What Obama's Victory Means for US Foreign Policy'

November 5, 2008
"A Copenhagen agreement with strictures and cap-and-trade is going to be hard for this Congress to digest," said Steve Clemons, a foreign policy strategist at the New America Foundation. "They are going to have to find a way to engage in climate change that is credible but isn't going to deliver another gut-punch to the economy." LINK
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Steve Clemons on NationalJournal.com | 'Bloggers On The Race And Their Role In It'

November 3, 2008
Steve Clemons, Washington Note: I think blogs have become a substantial portal for many Americans and people abroad to get their political news -- particularly as the mainstream press seems to tilt towards extreme homogenization. Independent blogs and those owned by mainstream vehicles are more agile and quick to publish, adding to the overall excitement in news flow.
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Steven Clemons in The National | 'Imagined Community'

October 31, 2008
“Both Muslims and Arab-Americans have been ill-treated in this political environment,” noted Steve Clemons, a veteran observer of American politics and popular blogger who is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank. “There has been some tacit acceptance of that, even by people around Barack Obama,” he added. LINK
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Steven Clemons in Investor's Business Daily | 'U.S. Hopes Bank Crisis Won't Last Like Japan's'

October 27, 2008

"The U.S. bailout is definitely going to work faster, but it will feel more brutal," said Steven Clemons, a Japan expert and director of the foreign policy program at the New America Foundation. "The Japanese digested about 10% of their nonperforming loan problem a year -- so while the economy didn't grow, it didn't shrink. Japan was able to keep flat GDP."

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Steve Clemons on C-SPAN | 'U.S. National Security'

October 23, 2008
Steven Clemons discusses the presidential candidates' views on U.S. national security polices, and in particular the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and how the next president should deal with Al Qaeda. Clemons has been following these issues and the overall campaign on his blog, TheWashingtonNote.com. LINK to video
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A Life of Vice

  • By
  • Steven Clemons,
  • New America Foundation
October 20, 2008 |

An old adage about America's first helmsmen is that "Washington reigned, Hamilton ruled, and Jefferson complained." The contemporary version might say that "Bush reigned, Cheney ruled, and Congress, the nation, and the world complained."

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Steven Clemons on MSNBC | 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann for Thursday, September 18'

September 18, 2008

OLBERMANN: What about me, what? The McCain campaign today said there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred, begging the question, as with McCain's Sunni-Shiite gaffe, which meaning is worse, the unintended or the intended? One footnote, Zapatero's grandfather fought alongside the communists in the Spanish civil war since the age of 13. McCain has said his greatest hero is the fictional character, Robert Jordan, from "For Whom the Bell Tolls" who fought alongside the communists in the Spanish civil war, for real.

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Steve Clemons in Financial Times video | 'Foreign Policy and 2008 Presidential Campaigns'

September 3, 2008
Steve Clemons, foreign policy expert and renowned blogger, speaks with Edward Luce, Washington, DC Bureau Chief, at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. LINK to video
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Steven Clemons on Ian Masters' Background Briefing | 'Democractic Convention and Obama's Foreign Policy'

August 31, 2008
Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, discusses the Democratic convention and Barack Obama's foreign policy. LINK to audio
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Steve Clemons in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | 'Democrats Shore Up National Security Stance'

August 28, 2008

On a night when the convention’s stated theme was “securing America’s future,” speakers portrayed McCain as an unreconstructed hawk and Bush enabler, an outdated thinker who supported a war that distracted America from fighting al-Qaida in Afghanistan, empowered a hostile Iran and left the United States weaker instead of safer...

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