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Ellison visits Turkey, Saudi Arabia on trade mission

By Andy Birkey | 04.25.11 | 12:57 pm

Rep. Keith Ellison was in Turkey and Saudi Arabia over the last week with a delegation of business leaders, including the head of the Minnesota Trade Office. Ellison praised Turkey as a Muslim country that has a successful democracy, and he also said business relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia continue to improve.

Ellison casts tie-breaking vote on Armenian genocide resolution

By Andy Birkey | 03.08.10 | 9:30 am

Rep. Keith EllisonRep. Keith Ellison was the tie-breaking vote on a House Foreign Affairs Committee resolution calling on President Obama to “characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.” The measure was vigorously opposed by Turkey, and…

Unsure on Armenia resolution, Ellison says U.S. needs to acknowledge genocide here

By Andy Birkey | 03.04.10 | 11:13 am

Rep. Keith Ellison says he hasn’t yet made up his mind about whether or not Congress should recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915 committed by the Ottoman Empire. A hearing is set for Thursday in the House Committee on Foreign…

America’s great turkeys

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.26.08 | 9:06 am


While Sarah Palin’s turkey-pardon interview in front of a bird butcher is a definite contender, my hands-down favorite piece of political Thanksgiving news was George W. Bush’s dramatic 2003 fly-in to Baghdad, where —…

Iraq Study Group Report: “No good options”

By Leigh Pomeroy | 12.06.06 | 11:41 am

No surprise: Former Bush foreign policy advisor pessimistic about Iraq

“There are no good options,” says retired White House foreign policy advisor Tom Maertens. “The military says we can’t stay, we can’t leave, we can’t win.”