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Patriotic rhetoric emanates from both presidential campaigns, their allies, and the chirons of every broadcast and cable news division. Anchors and st...
Our political leaders have calculated that the American people are not interested in foreign policy in this election year. By walking, we're announcing to our leaders loudly and clearly that they are wrong.
One of the ICC's major realities is that it relies entirely on states to arrest and surrender accused to the Court. In this respect, state cooperation gives teeth to the ICC's bark.
The cognitive dissonance required to believe President Obama prioritizes the people of Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, and suffering all along the border with South Sudan, is astounding.
Omar Bashir is bombing his own people in another part of his country, the Nuba Mountain area. He denies it. So... watch this video and tell me.
For activist movements seeking positive change, there is only one thing worse than obscurity: the infliction of unintended negative consequences on those you are trying to help.
Despite what the UN says, the terror continues in Darfur. UN officials say there is now "much less organized violence" in the remote western province of Sudan. However, the Sudanese government continues to bomb, rape and terrorize its own citizens in Darfur.
Across Sudan, millions suffer without relief, and I am called by a power greater than I can even imagine to lend some measure of myself to their cause.
It sounds like the beginning of a semi-decent joke: A movie star, four Congress members, leaders of several NGOs, two rabbis, a journalist and a great comedian walk into a jail cell. Last Friday, that is what happened though.
There were no cheering crowds and jostling photographers when we stepped out of the DC Police van into the precinct lock-up. A couple of officers checked us in, emptied our pockets, and led us into a cell to join my fellow law-breakers.
I was proud to be among those activists arrested this morning for civil disobedience in the name of social justice. We came together today with hearts both somber and spirited.
George Clooney brought his admirable fight for human rights in Sudan to Washington this week. Yet somehow the one political leader whom Clooney has a chance of influencing, the one who is in the best position to make a difference in Sudan, escaped the actor's attention.
A POGO investigation has found that a Gingrich advisor, Robert McFarlane, covertly lobbied for interests in southern Sudan and reportedly on behalf of the Sudanese government -- without properly disclosing his activities to the U.S. government.
Senator Santorum is highlighting the mortal danger posed to Americans of faith by the existence of gays, contraceptives, and Planned Parenthood, a far cry from the Sudanese armed forces going from door to door, forcing Christians onto trucks and driving them to mass graves.
Where are today's Casablanca-style heroes? They are in the streets of North Africa (and Syria), facing down well-armed, brutal, corrupt regimes, most of which were propped up by the West.
For those who follow events in Sudan, the events recounted here are eerily similar to those of so many other weeks. Yet there continues to be no action taken by the U.S. government to prevent more deaths, displacement and starvation.
