https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1185.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1185.html 2009-02-23T12:27:47Z text/html en Seema Sridhar <p>The Middle East quandary is perhaps the most crucial legacy in foreign policy that Obama inherits as the 44th President of the United States. The mounting of tensions with the Israeli blockade of Gaza has effectively rendered the policy of ‘business as usual', as followed by Bush, impossible for Obama. The region's guarded optimism over Obama's election has now given vent to severe resentment for his total silence on the continued Israeli violation of international law. This has left the (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique94.html" rel="directory">February 2009</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1133.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1133.html 2009-01-26T12:25:01Z text/html en Seema Sridhar <p>It's official now. Barack Obama has been elected as the 44th President of the United States by the 538-member Electoral College as mandated by the US Constitution and shall take charge at the 56th presidential inauguration on January 20 amidst tremendous anticipation. Much before this, the wheels of US diplomacy had started turning to coax Iraq into accepting the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that is going to determine the future of the country. The long debated US-Iraq military pact, (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique93.html" rel="directory">January 2009</a>