Layla Amjadi, 12.01.2009
STAND Student Director
This week, thousands of people are pledging to join the movement to prevent genocide. Improving how we prevent and respond to genocide begins when we join together to build a better future.
Dave Zirin, 11.30.2009
Sports correspondent for the Nation Magazine
Now that Woods appears to have been involved in a domestic dispute, the media is wondering if there is "another Tiger." It would be more appropriate if they scrutinized him for making deals that benefit dictatorships.
Leon T. Hadar, 11.23.2009
Journalist and foreign affairs analyst
As Obama contemplates a new strategy for Afghanistan, he should consider integrating the conservative values of fiscal discipline and limited government into his foreign policy decision-making.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.20.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
Increased Tension Over Iran's Program
SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's rece...
Allison Kilkenny, 11.11.2009
Radio host, writer, allisonkilkenny.com
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.06.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
Like Him or Not, Karzai's the Man in Afghanistan
SI Analysis: After opposition candidate Abdullah Abdulla...
Antonia Juhasz, 11.04.2009
Director of The Chevron Program at Global Exchange and author of "The Tyranny of Oil."
On Sunday, Chevron became the first oil company to come under a Yes Men Audience Attack. Chevron was chosen because it's different from other oil companies.
Jenny Darroch, 10.29.2009
Marketing strategy expert at Claremont Graduate University
McDonald's has pulled out of Iceland.The decision is a combination of rising costs and the inability to hike prices a further 20% to recoup losses.
Jack Healey, 10.28.2009
Founder of the Human Rights Action Center
Our president is afraid of being seen in public shaking the hand of the Dalai Lama. Publicly acknowledging the Dalai Lama's cause would be type of change I hoped to see when I gave money to Obama's campaign.
Jesse Larner, 11.13.2009
Jesse Larner is a New York-based writer on politics and culture.
Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.
Chris Campbell, 10.09.2009
Music and technology professional
I find it maddening how quickly the wolves came out. Similar to any policy move that will actually benefit Americans and our standing in the world, the right-wing goes ballistic.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 10.10.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
North Korea Back at the Table, maybe
SI Analysis: North Korea says that it will return to six party talks...
Jim Wallis, 12.01.2009
Founder of Sojourners; speaker, author, activist
What I love about a U2 concert, headlined by the Irish tenor with the sunglasses, is how it achieves such a powerful combination of art and social justice, music and message; and all with such fun.
Jonathan Hulland, 11.29.2009
In his speech at the United Nations last week, President Obama pledged that "America will live its values, and we will lead by example." If we are to believe him, he must stand up for the human rights of his fellow Americans.
Jack Healey, 11.24.2009
Founder of the Human Rights Action Center
The U.S. needs an "adult" group. A group who does good "stuff" but with a different mandate. The first and only criterion to get into this special group is that you tell the truth all the time.
Ellen Susman, 11.23.2009
Gabriele said that over time some prisoners would find ways to illustrate their stay. They would draw stars, birds, and trees to remind them of freedom. She said they could often smell the roses outside.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, 11.22.2009
Associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance
What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.
Evelyn Leopold, 11.21.2009
Veteran reporter at the United Nations
President Obama makes his debut appearance at the United Nations this week, attending and presiding over a breathless array of events far beyond the usual schedule for U.S. presidents.
Human Rights Watch, 11.18.2009
Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations.
Planned 2010 Elections Not Credible if Opposition Remains in Prison
(Washington, DC) - Burma's military government has more than doubled the number o...
Ari Bendersky, 11.13.2009
Ari Bendersky is the co-creator of the iPhone app foodie.
As with everything U2 does, this show was big. Big stage. Big lights. Big sound. Big messages. But this show was played, for lack of a better term, in the round.
Robert Amsterdam, 11.09.2009
International lawyer on emerging markets, politics of business, and rule of law
It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.