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THE JACKSON SUN
Why Elvis and Foreign Aid Matter

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Jon York is an attorney in Jackson, Tennessee

The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are
facing deep fiscal cuts. These programs provide stability to countries
before they spill over into threats that harm us here at home. These
cuts will be felt right here in Tennessee, which is clearly part of
the global economy. After all, trade supported 857,200 jobs in 2013,
or 23 percent of total jobs, according to the U.S. Global Leadership
Coalition, a non-partisan group that tracks the effects of foreign
investment. Another 134,500 people in Tennessee are employed by
companies that are at least 50 percent foreign-owned. Tennessee
exports an astonishing $32.4 billion in goods to foreign markets.

Who's in the News

CNN INTERNATIONAL
Albright Slams Trump's Plan to Cut Foreign Aid |

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tells Christiane
Amanpour she's "stunned" by the Trump administration's proposed cut
for foreign aid.

THE HILL
Former Members to Congress: Don't Cut Foreign Aid

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Claudine Schneider (R-R.I.) Barbara Kennelly (D-Conn.) Lynn C. Woolsey
(D-Calif.) and Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio) are all former members of
Congress

When we served in Congress, foreign aid had support among Republicans
and Democrats. Given the life and death consequences the proposed cuts
to foreign aid, this funding must not become political football today.
In the last 15 years, bipartisan U.S. administrations have brought
development and humanitarian assistance to the fore of U.S. foreign
policy They've done this by recognizing their importance to
securing U.S. national interests around the world in cooperation with
defense and diplomacy. Congress must protect this small but critical
part of our country's budget to save lives, help people lift
themselves out of poverty, spur economic growth, and make the world a
better and safer place.

TIME
It's Time to Plan for Civil War In Venezuela
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Admiral Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO

An enormous crisis is brewing just a few hundred miles south of Miami:
Venezuela, a nation of more than 30 million people, with the largest
oil reserves in the world, is on the brink of collapse and civil war.
The implications for the Americas are profound and dangerous. This is
a potential disaster for the region because of the possibility of
massive numbers of refugees (both at sea and especially to neighboring
Colombia, which is just emerging from its own insurgency). It could
constitute a drain on resources for other nations (including the
U.S.), which would be forced to help a displaced and at-risk
population. The havoc could also open up opportunities for drug
smugglers.

Development & Diplomacy

FOREIGN POLICY
Senate Panel Rejects Trump Plan for Cutting Foreign Assistance |

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Robbie Gramer

In a stark repudiation of the Trump administration, lawmakers on
Thursday passed a spending bill that overturned the president's
steep proposed cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy. Folded into the bill
are management amendments that straitjacket some of Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson's efforts to redesign the State Department. The
Senate Appropriations Committee approved $51 billion for the State
Department, foreign operations, and related programs in its 2018
appropriations bill - almost $11 billion above President
Trump's request.

VOICE OF AMERICA
Bipartisan Experts Call for Strengthening US State Department |

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Cindy Saine

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has pledged to carry out a major
reorganization of the U.S. State Department, with the results set to
be announced on September 15. On Wednesday, the Chairman of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, was on hand as several former
ambassadors and business leaders launched a report with
recommendations for State Department reform at the Atlantic Council
research institution. Royce said he has been clear that he does not
support deep cuts to the State Department and the Agency for
International Development, proposed by the Trump administration.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
270,000 Rohingya Have Fled Myanmar, U.N. Says |

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Austin Ramzy

The number of Rohingya who have fled fighting in western Myanmar has
climbed sharply to 270,000, placing a huge strain on camps in
Bangladesh where they are seeking shelter, the United Nations refugee
agency said Friday. On Thursday, the United Nations agency said that
about 164,000 Rohingya had fled since fighting broke out in late
August. Two refugee camps in Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh
that were already home to nearly 34,000 Rohingya refugees "are
now bursting at the seams," Duniya Aslam Khan, a spokeswoman for
the refugee agency, said in a statement.

THE WASHINGTON POST

U.S. Sanctions South Sudan Officials for Allegedly Enriching
Themselves Amid Civil War, Famine |

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Carol Morello

The United States on Wednesday placed sanctions on three close
associates of South Sudan's president, saying they had
personally profited from a climate of corruption in a government that
has been called a kleptocracy. The Treasury Department said the
sanctions were in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation
in South Sudan and the role of officials in undermining stability and
peace. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement
that the Trump administration will increasingly scrutinize South
Sudanese officials. "This is a man-made crisis, and one the
Government of South Sudan can stop," she said.

USGLC GLOBAL IMPACT BLOG
Improving Literacy to Lift Up the Next Generation |
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Megan Rabbitt

Consider this: if every child learned how to read before leaving
school, 171 million people worldwide would be lifted out of poverty.
And if all women completed a primary education, maternal death rates
would drop by 66 percent. On the surface, improving childhood literacy
seems like a simple solution to some of the world's most
intractable problems. But the reality is that 250 million children
today cannot read. Whether it is violence keeping them from school, a
disability such as blindness or deafness, or a complete lack of
reading materials in a language they can understand barriers to
literacy remain widespread.

USGLC GLOBAL IMPACT BLOG
All Eyes on Yemen at the United Nations General Assembly |
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Abhik K. Pramanik

On September 12th, the United Nations kicks off its 72nd General
Assembly with leaders from across the globe in attendance.
Coordination of the U.N.'s humanitarian and disaster relief
efforts will be central to the conversation, especially in Yemen,
which was recently declared the world's largest humanitarian
crisis by the heads of several global humanitarian agencies. New U.N.
Secretary General António Guterres has called Yemen a country beset by
"a tragedy of immense proportions," and many will be
watching to see how President Trump addresses these global
humanitarian crises in his first address to the General Assembly.

Politics & Foreign Policy

CNN

Donald Trump Told Nikki Haley She Could Speak Her Mind. She's Doing
Just That |

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Elise Labott

Nikki Haley was under consideration to become Donald Trump's
secretary of state when she flew to New York to meet the
President-elect for the first time since his election victory.The
South Carolina governor was torn. The baggage from the 2016 campaign
she supported Marco Rubio in her state's all-important
presidential primary and later backed Ted Cruz didn't suddenly
evaporate for Trump, who never forgets a slight. But there was
something more fundamental that bothered her: Her resume. Yes, Haley
traveled abroad as governor and she was successful in bringing
business into the state. But none of that could prepare her to lead
American diplomacy in a world where North Korea was becoming more
aggressive, the crisis in Syria was deepening, Venezuela was
succumbing to a dictator and the war in Afghanistan showed no sign of
easing. She told Trump no.

FOREIGN POLICY
Where's Rex? |

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Robbie Gramer and Dan De Luce

President Donald Trump's administration came out swinging at
North Korea after its latest nuclear test. Trump threatened to cut off
all trade with any country that traded with Pyongyang; Nikki Haley,
the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., accused North Korea of "begging
for war"; and Defense Secretary James Mattis appeared to up the
ante, warning Kim Jong Un that his country risked "total
annihilation." But there was one voice noticeably absent from
this clamor: America's top diplomat. The State Department said
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to Texas over the weekend in
the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Tillerson Is Working With China and Russia - Very, Very Quietly
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David Ignatius

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has often been the silent man in the
Trump foreign policy team. But out of the spotlight, he appears to be
crafting a broad strategy aimed at working with China to resolve the
North Korea crisis and with Russia to stabilize Syria and Ukraine. The
Tillerson approach focuses on personal diplomacy, in direct contacts
with Chinese and Russian leaders, and through private channels to
North Korea. His core strategic assumption is that if the United
States can subtly manage its relations with Chinese President Xi
Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin - and allow those
leaders to take credit for successes - complex regional problems
can be solved effectively.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Trump Won't Rule Out Military Action on North Korea |

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Eli Stokols and Felicia Schwartz

President Donald Trump refused to rule out military action against
North Korea on Thursday, but he stopped short of answering a
reporter's question as to whether he would tolerate a
nuclearized North Korean state if the threat were contained.
"North Korea is behaving badly and it's got to
stop," Mr. Trump said at a White House news conference.
Continuing several months of rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea
over Pyongyang's accelerating pace of weapons tests, the
president told reporters that he would prefer a diplomatic solution to
the prolonged impasse. Mr. Trump also noted that years of talks have
done little to rein in North Korea.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Devious Threat to a Nuclear Deal |

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The Editorial Board

Nikki Haley laid the Trump administration's cards on the table
this week with a new proposal aimed at sabotaging one of the Obama
administration's most important diplomatic initiatives -
the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. President Trump promised during his
campaign to kill the deal, despite its clear benefits to American
security. Ms. Haley, the United States ambassador to the United
Nations, has set forth a scheme that could not only allow Mr. Trump to
carry out his threat, but also shift final responsibility to Congress.
The whole idea makes no sense to anyone but Mr. Trump's
hard-line advisers, who see Iran as the root of evil in the Persian
Gulf.


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