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Meeting the nation's petroleum needs from affordable and securesources is vital for national security. The best guarantee forfuture energy security remains a stable, democratic WesternHemisphere with relationships based on genuine respect fordemocracy, constitutional government with real checks and balances,and the rule of law.

/PRNewswire/ -- Robert Walker, who is Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University, and Professor at Beijing Normal University, contributes an...

If Britain does decide to leave the EU, one of its central priorities should be to negotiate a modern free trade area (FTA), based on sovereignty and freedom, with the United States.

Americans have long reaped the benefits of free trade, yet theplace of free trade in policymaking is far from secure.

Prices for corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, and other food staples have risen sharply over the past year. This has strained the ability of poor people in developing countries to feed their families and fomented widespread anger. Since mid-2007, the rising prices have led to protests and riots in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Haiti, Somalia, and a number of other countries. Regrettably, some countries including Indonesia and Kazakhstan have exacerbated the problem by restricting exports of rice and ...

A Europe in which national sovereignty remains paramount regardingforeign and security policy, and states act flexibly rather thancollectively wherever possible, will enable America to engage thecontinent most successfully. This flexibility, in internationalinstitutions or ad hoc coalitions of the willing, is the future ofthe transatlantic relationship because it fits the objectiverealities of the continent.

Samuel Warberg, the regional spokesman for the US State Department, feels that US-Qatari relations are currently going through their best form for more than 50

Farmers, ranchers, and consumers derive immense benefits from free trade in agriculture and participation in the global trading system. Despite these benefits, however, U.S. agricultural protectionism is still prevalent through traditional barriers like tariffs and quotas, as well as non-traditional barriers like subsidies and onerous regulations that do little to advance public health or safety.

Congress should support the Administration's efforts to help guideAfrica into a brighter future.

The movements of goods, services, capital, and labor between India and the U.S. are inadequate for two such large economies.