HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

AFRIN, SYRIA - MARCH 27: (EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death) Members of White Helmet carry a dead body after they recovered from wreckage of a collapsed house after booby traps set by YPG/PKK exploded in Shamanli village of Sheran district, northeast of Afrin town center in Syria on March 27, 2018. The civil defense units in Syria recovered three bodies following the explosion. Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army fighters continue a sweep search in the area. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on Jan. 20 to remove terrorist groups from Afrin, amid growing threats from the region. On March 18, Turkish-backed troops liberated the town center of Afrin. Afrin region has been a major hideout for the terrorist YPG/PKK group since 2012. (Photo by Nayf Alaboud /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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OPINION
Americans Must Stand In Solidarity With Syria's Besieged Citizens
By Shiyam Galyon, Guest Writer
The cynicism Americans feel about humanitarian intervention makes sense. But we must stand in solidarity with Syrians.
POLITICS
America is Responsible for Aleppo's Destruction
By Lionel Beehner, Contributor
Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
The violence here was not ethnic; the rebels were motivated by a range of motivations, ranging from patriotic - e.g. Arab
WORLDPOST
Winning Back Mosul, Safeguarding Its Infrastructure
By Joseph Braude, Contributor
Author, broadcaster, and Middle East specialist
WORLDPOST
Terror in Lake Chad Basin and the Failure of the Humanitarian System
By Kolleen Bouchane, Contributor
TECH
Humanitarian Innovation: Surprising News, Cautionary Tales, and Promising Directions
By Camille Crittenden, Contributor
Deputy Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC
A few lessons emerged from the convening, including one from the disability rights movement: "nothing about us without us
WORLDPOST
Authoritarian Symps
By John Feffer, Contributor
Director, Foreign Policy In Focus and Editor, LobeLog; Author ...
In the bad old days of the Cold War, the left and the right used to play a nasty game called "Who's Your Favorite Dictator?" But the terms of the game have changed.
POLITICS
Washington Should Make Foreign Policy for Americans, Not Liberals Overseas
By Doug Bandow, Contributor
Contributing writer, policy analyst, one who tilts at windmills
The more active America's foreign policy, the more the U.S. has to spend on the military: the "defense" budget is the price of Washington's foreign policy. American military personnel and contractors die. Enemies are created. A national security state develops.
WORLDPOST
Israelpolitik, the Neocons and the Long Shadow of the Iraq War
By Danny Postel, Contributor
Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern Un...
The Road to Iraq is a work of tremendous intellectual diligence and moral seriousness.
IMPACT
World Mental Health Day: Let's Do It for the Children
By Curt Goering, Contributor
Executive Director, The Center for Victims of Torture
With counseling and psychosocial support, young lives devastated by war and childhoods violently taken away can be reclaimed. We see it happen when they begin to smile again, laugh again, and play again.
WORLDPOST
Put the 'Humanitarian' Back in Humanitarian Interventions
By Jonathan Marshall, Contributor
Author, 'The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and T...
In times past, talk of "humanitarian intervention" brought to mind images of Red Cross trucks and nurses coming to the scene of a natural disaster to tend the afflicted.
WORLDPOST
Combatting Ebola: Quarantine Is Vital, But Also Cultural Education
By Robert Klitzman, M.D., Contributor
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Masters of Bioethi...
We must learn from responses to such epidemics in the past if we are to succeed today. Such lessons will be difficult to craft, requiring expertise in culture as well as medicine, but need to be integral parts of our global response.
POLITICS
Dispatch From Liberia: An Epidemic of Fear
By Adam C. Levine, Contributor
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Brown Medical School
As of this week, Ebola is killing 100 people every couple days in West Africa. But the true impact of the crisis in West Africa should be measured in the wider impact the disease has wrought. It is not Ebola alone causing the catastrophe in West Africa today -- it is an epidemic of fear.
RELIGION
Hell's Problems: Genocide and 'Humanitarian Intervention'
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Contributor
Professor of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary
There seems little doubt that the self-styled radical Islamist group, Islamic State, is committing genocide in Iraq, certainly against the Yazidis, and has targeted Christians to "convert or die" as well.
IMPACT
It's Time to Give Back to the Greeks
By Vasilis Georgiou, Contributor
Entrepreneur and humanitarian activist for Greeks and Cypriots...
I have two passions in my life: Helping entrepreneurs find the right franchise or business to buy, and trying to give something
IMPACT
For These Are All Our Girls
By Pam Allyn, Contributor
Founder & Executive Director, LitWorld
The kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls is a crisis of our humanity. What will become of us if half of humanity is not fully safe, empowered and free? We will all perish. Let us begin to repair the world today.
IMPACT
In Syria, Death Is Falling From the Sky
By Elizabeth Filippouli, Contributor
Founder & CEO, Global Thinkers & Global Thinkers Forum
The humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is one of the greatest of recent decades, but in a world which gets so consumed with constant breaking news and the bombardment of all sorts of information, the electrifying noise of barrel bombs and the real cry for help are not reaching our ears.
POLITICS
The Scandal of Syria
By John Feffer, Contributor
Director, Foreign Policy In Focus and Editor, LobeLog; Author ...
Today we confront the fallen world of Syria. Is this House of Cards territory where ambition and revenge battle for supremacy and there is nothing to do but watch the horrors unfold before our eyes? Or do we believe that, despite our own original sins, we Americans can don the white hat and fix things in Syria?
POLITICS
Parlez-vous Francais 'Problem from Hell'?
By Lionel Beehner, Contributor
Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Why has France, which opposed the war in Iraq, suddenly taken up the mantle of humanitarianism? Is it guilt motivating France's latest bout of humanitarian interventionism? Or is the French government just more humane than ours? Actually, none of the above.
WORLDPOST
7 Things You Need to Know Now About the Escalating Violence in South Sudan
By Matthew Leriche, Contributor
Conflict Security and Development Expert
In the past week, what started as a political confrontation in South Sudan has descended into serious violence with the potential for mass atrocities. But continued fighting and civil war is not inevitable.
POLITICS
What You Need to Know About U.S. Intervention in Central African Republic
By John Glaser, Contributor
Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Insti...
Many have noted the lack of clear strategic interests in CAR. So why did the White House choose to intervene? And why this particular way? What is the likelihood of successfully improving the humanitarian situation? Is there a risk of mission creep?
WORLDPOST
Good Wars and Bad Anti-Wars?
By Ian Williams, Contributor
Author and journalist
Accurate history is messy, because reality is messy -- and that is no more apparent than over Syria. The lines between good and bad are never as clear and bold as we would like.
WORLDPOST
Syria's Tragedy Could One Day Be Our Own
By Atif Choudhury, Contributor
LL.M Student, Queen Mary University of London
As the Syrian people watch to see whether the international community will finally spring into action, we should have some more real talk on Syria's ongoing tragedy and why all of us have a personal stake in combatting state terrorism.
POLITICS
Obama's Sudden Syria Crisis, With Putin Solution: What the Heck Was That?
By William Bradley, Contributor
Political Analyst, former presidential campaign advisor and sp...
The truth is that Putin is as much messing with Obama with this New York Times piece as he is trying to sell himself to the American public. Putin showed he knows how to reach the American people. But how believable is he?
WORLDPOST
A Memo to Syria: Sovereignty Is Not a Right, It's a Responsibility
By Joseph Amodeo, Contributor
Political Scientist
Failure to respond to the crisis in Syria will allow evil to beget evil. We cannot merely watch as the crisis in Syria spirals into further attacks on Syrian citizens and, in turn, draws the United States and the international community into an even deeper threat to global security.
WORLDPOST
Why the US Should Intervene in Syria
By Helen Ouyang, MD, MPH, Contributor
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Military intervention should not be for punishment of Assad for the use of chemical weapons or the atrocities of the past two years. Its main purpose ought not be for sending a message to any other country planning to use weapons of mass destruction.
WORLDPOST
The Syrian Reprisal
By Heather Roff, Contributor
Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Department of Pol...
That the Syrian regime used chemical weapons does not necessarily entail that the U.S. becomes the international judge, jury and executive to dole out punishments. Indeed, reprisals are subject to strict criteria.
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