This video of an Egyptian woman asking US President Barak Obama to shut up your mouse is making the rounds

Regrettably, US President Barack Obama and his administration have yet to comprehend the scale and severity of the damage caused to America s credibility among its European allies.

The main American manufacturer of that active ingredient decided a few years ago to relocate to China because it's the world's biggest supplier of pigs.

The story Americans tell, the story upon which the American dream depends, is the story of limitless choice.

President Barack Obama relied on that power when he told both Congress and the American people that he had the authority to order limited strikes on Syria without going to Congress.

CAMBRIDGE When US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for their shirt sleeves summit in California last month, North Korea was a major topic of conversation.

For now, the US dollar remains the most important international currency.

Several Latin American leaders and commentators recommended that US President Barack Obama attend, despite Castro s presence, in order to confront him about Cuba s dearth of democracy.

But every now and then, the Summit an American initiative launched by US President Bill Clinton in 1994 actually helps to place key issues on the hemispheric table.

The working group may have contributed to ending the war of words, at least on the American side, and McFaul has now been nominated to become US Ambassador to Russia.

The question is whether any US president, Republican or Democrat, would be willing to risk alienating those who still view Taiwan through the lens of its conflict with the People s Republic.

There are large practical difficulties in achieving this, and the Russian proposal, which has now been embraced by US President Barack Obama, does not meet the Western demand for punishment. But it has interrupted the momentum toward military intervention.

And if you look at the chart for 2050, it's projected that the Chinese economy will be twice the size of the American economy, and the Indian economy will be almost the same size as the American economy.

CAMBRIDGE When US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for their shirt sleeves summit in California last month, North Korea was a major topic of conversation. The subject was not new, but the tone was.

The uplifting pro disarmament rhetoric of US President Barack Obama remains just that. No nuclear armed state will set a timetable for a major reduction in the number of nuclear weapons, let alone their abolition.

One such issue was the so called Free Trade Area of the Americas, which was proposed by former US President George H.W. Bush in 1990, and then collapsed at the Mar del Plata summit in Argentina in 2005.

Kids in the 12th grade not exactly all that enthusiastic about the American government system.

Against this backdrop, the US government shutdown looks a little different.

As US India defense cooperation broadens, this question will loom ever larger.

No one shall be silent anymore. Tunisia is an Islamic republic. Destroy democracy.

His report helped to convince the U.S. Congress to withdraw this region from public auction.

Now I cannot tell you how incredibly excited the U.S. military was by the news of the Norden bombsight.

Private credit, moreover, would disappear from the US economic system, confronting the Federal Reserve with an unpleasant choice.

I suggest an alternative strategy, one already embedded in America history, though largely unrecognized.

Because Obama will be present, other leaders may seize the opportunity to share with him their views on what is increasingly called the failed war on drugs, the anti drug program originally launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.

Convened by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the massive refugee crisis triggered by Hitler s virulent anti Semitism, the Évian conference was a catastrophe. And its disastrous outcome needs to be recalled in the light of Europe s current migration crisis.

Today the average American spends about a week a year stuck in traffic jams, and that's a huge waste of time and resources.

The money market funds that are perceived to be the safest, for example, are those that hold only US government debt.

Khalil Agha tweets Khalil_alagha The American Ambassador who was killed in Benghazi was a strong supporter of the Libyan revolution and he loved the Arab world.

TOKYO On April 29, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address a joint session of the United States Congress. The Japan US alliance is now 63 years old, but this will be the first time that a Japanese leader will be accorded this high honor from the American government and people.

Fortunately, US President Barack Obama has not missed the opportunities that were presented to him. Indeed, the recent agreement with Iran, coming after diplomatic breakthroughs with Myanmar and Cuba, should make those who speak of an America in decline think again.

Indeed, as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling neared, Henry Aaron, a distinguished senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, pointed out that the US Constitution requires the president to spend what Congress has instructed him to spend, to raise only those taxes Congress has authorized him to impose, and to borrow no more than Congress authorizes.

And this one in the middle here, the large truck, is actually called the Active Denial System something the U.S. military is working on at the moment.

And the U.S. military spends 1.5 billion dollars billion dollars in 1940 dollars developing the Norden bombsight.

From my American perspective, when a paying customer makes a reasonable request based on her preferences, she has every right to have that request met.

But just two weeks before that, the U.S. Senate refused to even debate the banning of BPA in babies' bottles and sippy cups.

In the '30s an airplane had two wings and a round motor, and was always flown by a guy who looked like Cary Grant.

So if you go to an African American Pentecostalist church in the American South and you listen to how they talk, my goodness, they talk well.

Denied access to TV, Navalny has launched a US style door to door campaign.

SEOUL In his State of the Union address to the US Congress in 2002, President George W. Bush famously described Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as an axis of evil. In the years since, however, America has not treated each in the same way.

The first DPJ prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, miscalculated in believing that a face to face meeting with the new American president to discuss long term matters affecting East Asia could settle the issue. He was steadily rebuffed by the American government.

I try to scare myself with the reality IF GOP win this election, it will be a big POUNCH on only to my stomach, but to almost most of the average American.

But my disappointment has much more perspective when I talk to American people, and I hear their worries about the deficit, and the fiscal well being of their country.

But Americans are in no mood to celebrate. Indeed, the second conclusion to be drawn from the US government shutdown is the virtual disappearance of American triumphalism.

The value of the Iranian rial has fallen by 50 against the US dollar since the beginning of the year, and the country is suffering from a severe shortage of foreign exchange. So now is not the time to pull back.