MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'international relations'. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:23:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3699464&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fkatie-couric-gloria-steinman-and-jehmu-greene-talk-women-in-media-and-the-workplace%2F We’ve got to balance the slow-jams (even though it was about a hard-core issue) with some serious stuff. Not that it’s uninteresting serious stuff – this video shows a group of smart, powerful women talking about issues that are on our hot list. Katie Couric sat down with Women’s Media Center President Jehmu Greene and Co-Founder Gloria Steinem to talk about the continuing objectification of women in the media and inequality in the workplace, and the family structure. It’s not all bad news though: Greene says that social media is contributing to media literacy among teen girls, and some of them are pushing back against over sexualized images of women in pop culture. But if the lame way women are represented in the media makes you itch for a little levity, don&#821... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3699464 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:41:30 +0100 3699464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3287717&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fmk_VtepA0Uk%2F By Justin LoganBack in September I puzzled over the disconnect between international relations academics and the Washington foreign-policy establishment.  Back then, I wrote that the two groups have been wildly at variance in terms of their views on important public policy issues.  Take the Iraq war, for example.  As anyone who was in Washington at the time knows, the [Foreign Policy Community] was extremely fond of the idea of invading Iraq.  To oppose it was to marginalize oneself for years.  Indeed, those who promoted the disastrous adventure have prospered, while those who (bravely or stupidly, depending on your point of view) opposed it remain huddled in the chilly, dusty alcoves of popular debate. In the academy, meanwhile, there was hardly any debate over Iraq–almost 80 perce... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3287717 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:44:19 +0100 3287717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3243777&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqGROnyYwqzA%2F By Christopher PrebleLast evening on FoxNews, host Bret Baier reported that the Iranians had launched a rocket carrying ”a mouse, two turtles, and a can of worms” into space. He asked the panelists to speculate on the implications. Charles Krauthammer inveighed “if you can put a mouse into space, you can put a nuke in New York, in principle.” Given that they are clearly developing the technological capabilities that would allow them to nuke New York, Krauthammer concluded, “our only hope on the nuclear issue or any other is a revolution and to help that revolution ought to be our task.” Well. To her credit, Jennifer Loven of the AP wasn’t having any of it. “It’s an incredibly large leap,” she pointed out, ”between a m... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3243777 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:40:31 +0100 3243777 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2898926&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAJxasCjcgZI%2F The Hill’s Congress blog has a regular series that provides policy experts a forum to discuss current topics of the day. This week, the editors posed this question: President Obama has taken a very different approach to diplomacy than President Bush. Does the new approach serve or undermine long-term U.S. interests? My response: What “very different approach?” Sure, President Bush implicitly scorned diplomacy in favor of toughness, particularly in his first term. But he sought UN Security Council authorization for tougher measures against Iraq; a truly unilateral approach would have bombed first and asked questions later. By the same token, President Obama has staffed his administration with people, including chief diplomat Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who favore... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2898926 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:45:18 +0100 2898926 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2820198&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F9I8ES9PcU7o%2F Glenn Greenwald uncovers a very interesting sentence in Les Gelb’s Democracy essay [.pdf] on the Iraq war and the media: Les Gelb on Charlie Rose My initial support for the war was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility. I had to read that two or three times to unpack all that’s going on in there.  The question obviously being begged is where does the disposition, and where do the incentives “to support wars to retain political and professional credibility” come from? Consider: There are two groups of people, the Foreign Policy Community (FPC) in Washington and New York, centered around the national-security bureaucracy and thi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2820198 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:16:20 +0100 2820198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2788501&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F7xZSeeBOV4c%2F From the quiet shadows of the White House, at around 10 pm on Friday night, came word that President Obama will impose prohibitive duties of 35% on imports of Chinese tires. Well, we at Cato and elsewhere have warned repeatedly of the dangerous consequences of this outcome (June 18, July 24, August 13, September 9, September 11). Former Cato colleague and coauthor Scott Lincicome has an excellent analysis on the ramifications right here. The good news is that we now have clarity about where the president stands on trade. The bad news is that his stance reflects his isolationist primary election campaign rhetoric and not the post-election messages of avoiding protectionism and repairing the damage done to America’s international credibility by unilateralist Bush administration policie... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2788501 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:35:01 +0100 2788501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2667402&cid=t_277290_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FY7hHnHE4ohw%2F My friend Pierre Bessard of Switzlerand’s Liberales Institut has a columnin today’s New York Times defending financial privacy from the predations of both international bureaucracies and American tax collectors. Pierre sagely notes that the Swiss system respects the privacy of citizens, unlike the “Orwellian” systems in places like America. This approach results in a very high level of tax compliance in Switzerland, and also provides a refuge for oppressed people around the world: …for us here in Switzerland, our financial privacy laws are a foundation for individual dignity and basic property rights. Unfortunately, the confidentiality that is the hallmark of Swiss banking is coming under increasing pressure. … We think government exists to serve us, no... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2667402 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:13:54 +0100 2667402