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Kony 2012 and the Failed Fantasy of Firepower in Libya, Syria, Uganda...

Lisa Schirch | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Syria, Libya, Kony 2012, Africom, Libya Rebels, Joseph Kony, Syrian Rebels, US Policy, Plan Colombia, World News

Echoes of victims call out to us over television or even twitter with bloodied images of civilians suffering. Those with empathy want to stop it. There is vast appeal for a fast fantasy of firepower solution

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Trees n' Settlements: First the JNF, Now the Israel Nature and Parks Authority -- What's Next?

Moriel Rothman | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, A-Tur, Issawiya, Conflict, Civil Disobedience, US Policy, Solidarity Movement, Israel, Jnf, Inpa, E1, World News

The new trend: seemingly innocuous, nature-oriented bodies in Jerusalem shedding their bark, so to speak, and revealing their true identities as expert-action-arms for the agenda of the settler movement.

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Stories to Watch in 2012: U.S., China, Food, Renewable Energy, Rio+20

Manish Bapna | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: International Climate Policy, Energy, Solar, Governance, Forest Restoration, Agriculture, Wind, Renewable Energy, US Policy, Shale Gas, rio2012, Climate Change, United States, Green Economy, Forests, China, Green News

What are the top environmental and development issues that will shape 2012? While we can't predict the future, here's a rundown of the key issues to keep an eye on.

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Opening Doors to U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Environment

Manish Bapna | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: International Climate Policy, Energy, US Policy, Low Carbon Development, Cities, China, United States, Green News

The world's ability to come up with a stable and sustainable energy and environmental policy for the 21st century will also depend significantly on cooperation between the world's current and emerging superpowers.

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As Congress Returns, Women Will Need Courageous Leaders

Serra Sippel | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Family Planning, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, US Policy, Reproductive Health, US Foreign Policy, Global Gag Rule, Maternal Health, Politics News

A remorseless House of Representatives returns to Capitol Hill today, armed with a grim anti-woman agenda. Brace yourself for another tiresome, ideological attack on women's health and rights, in the form, once again, of the Global Gag Rule.

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Today's Business Headline "Futures Turn Higher Following OPEC News"... Really!?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnbc, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, World, Saudi Aramco, u.s. Policy, Saudi Arabia, Regime Alteration, North Africa Turmoil, International Energey Agency, Oil, Beltway, Opec, Regime Change, Business News

Blazoned on the top of the CNBC News page was the headline, "US Futures Turn Higher Following OPEC News." The article goes on to advise that OPEC was considering raising production for the first time in two years.

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Embargoes

Sarah Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba Embargo, u.s. Policy, Sarah Stephens, U.N., UN Vote Condemning Cuba Embargo, UN Vote, Embargo, Center for Democracy in the Americas, Fidel, Raul Castro, Cuba-Revolution-50th-Anniversary, Cuba, Castro, Cda, Ustr, Beijing, China, Rare Earth, World News

While the United States likes to impose embargoes, it doesn't really like being subject to them. So it's worth spending a moment considering what happens when the sanctions shoe is on the other foot.

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Afghanistan, Iran, and Petraeus' Real Challenge

Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, General Petraeus, Afghanistan, u.s. Policy, World News

America's current policy in Afghanistan is setting the stage for a resumption of civil war in Afghanistan--recreating the conditions under which Al-Qa'ida first established a safe-haven there in the 1990s.

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Peeling Back the Layers of Gaza: Expanding the Discussion

Richard Eisendorf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Gaza, Human Rights Council, Israel Flotilla, Gaza Flotilla, United Nations, u.s. Israel Relations, u.s. Policy, Gaza Occupation, Cuba, Humanitarian Law, Un, Israel Palestine, National Security Strategy, World News, World News

A generation ago, Yasser Arafat was the reviled leader of the PLO. His successors in the West Bank are now embraced as the moderate leadership of the Palestinian people.

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Justice for All? A Tale of Two Victims: Leon Klinghoffer and Furkan Dogan.

Josh Ruebner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Gaza, u.s. Policy, Politics News

In October 1985, four Palestinian gunmen from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) stormed an Italian cruise ship on the Mediterranean, holding its ap...

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Why Should We Care About El Salvador?

Sarah Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Funes, u.s. Policy, Obama, Mauricio Funes, President Obama, Latin America, Fmln, World News

To the surprise of many, El Salvador under the leadership of a center-left president and a party representing a former guerrilla army is becoming Washington's most reliable Central American ally.

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Buying, Selling and Producing Mind Numbing News

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Foreign Plicy, Katharine Weymouth, Washington Post, Free Press, News, US Policy, Media News

Neither September 11th or the worst economic downturn in history has managed to snap people out of their dreamlike delusions of why we should continue the quest to mediocrity.

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Gates Praises Obama, Outlines New Defense World

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Gates Defense Policy, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, Iraq Troops, Robert Gates Michelle Obama, u.s. Policy, Gates Defense, Guantanamo, Gates Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Secretary of Defense, Politics News

Newly re-appointed Defense Secretary Bob Gates took questions from the press on Tuesday, outlining some agenda items that the Obama administration is ...

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