Second US Sailor's Body Recovered In Afghanistan
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Although Western liberalism may retain considerable appeal, the Western way of war has run its course.
Our national security, our economic recovery and the future of the United States of America depends on our country taking a leadership role on climate change. And that, in turn, depends on the United States Senate acting.
While WikiLeaks' release of the Afghanistan "War Logs" may be controversial, its significance in information strategy isn't difficult to understand. WikiLeaks' accomplishments are evolutionary rather than revolutionary in nature.
India graciously hosted the Burmese Dictator Than Shwe this week, raising the question as to why the world's largest democracy would welcome one of the world's worst dictators, a man associated with crimes against humanity.
The fact remains that the Taliban are getting fully functioning missiles from somewhere, which in all likelihood have been constructed in the last 4-5 years. The most likely candidate is Pakistan.
We're supposed to believe that the WikiLeaks information is "proof" that the president was right to initiate a massive escalation. If I were the president, this would be the drop-dead last argument I'd be making
Tisha B'Av fell on the same day as the first TIAA CREF annual meeting since Jewish Voice for Peace initiated a campaign to get TIAA CREF to divest its holdings from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.
Under international law, the United States isn't supposed to transfer anyone to a country where they're likely to face torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. But in the case of Abdul Aziz Naji that's what may happen.
If there is any takeaway from the WikiLeaks embarrassment, it is that we need more boots and gumshoes on the ground and fewer blue suits on computers in air-conditioned offices in the States.
The Obama administration needs to modify its "belief about the moral benefit and policy utility of nation-building." You do not have to engage in the grandiose project of nation-building in order to achieve our limited goals.
Today, in the nine hardest-hit African countries, young women are about three times as likely as young men to be HIV positive. Two recent studies offer some hope.
By working to advance negotiations on the one hand while preparing the groundwork for a declaration of statehood on the other, the Palestinians can take control of their future, but only through non-violent means.
Four months after Haiti was struck by an earthquake, we searched for signs that life had returned to normal. "Returning to normal" was hard to define, but we discovered a few things that are quintessentially Haitian.
It's out: an enormous trove of documents about the war in Afghanistan appeared on Wikileaks. The leak represents no less than a historic act of civil disobedience.
I have seen plenty of leaked material over my career and I know that 'leaked' adds a patina of mystery and capital-I Importance to documents that is sometimes not deserved.
The approximately 91,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan that were leaked to Wikileaks.org caused cries of outrage. Unfortunately this outrage was for all the wrong reasons.
In its corridors of commerce, in its seething alleys of ancient apothecaries, in its earthly rhythms and Promethean spirit, Hong Kong's uninhibited energy is clear as rice wine.
Ending the war in Afghanistan is firmly in our national interests.The facts show that the war is destroying our economy and making us less safe, and continuing it will lead to even further disaster.
Without a much more robust effort to 'bring the world back home', I fear that the recent increases in funding that the Peace Corps has received and is projected to continue to receive will not be forthcoming.
Adam Elkus, 2010.07.29
Rebecca Vilkomerson, 2010.07.29
