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The Weekly Gaff: Right-Wing Activists Don’t Understand What Sovereignty Means
In the last week, I've had over ten meetings with Senate staffers on the Law of the Sea Convention (I hope this...
Genocide Accountability Act
Some good news from Congress -- the Genocide Accountability Act has gone to the President for his signature. CGS supported the bill...
Support Grows For UN Rapid Response Force
While logistical and political roadblocks have slowed down efforts to deploy peacekeeping force to Darfur, support is growing for a new tool...
Biden: I’ll ‘Eat Rudy Giuliani Alive’
Senator Joe Biden is hungry. How do I know? He told me so in an e-mail today. In fact, he's so hungry...
Good News and Bad News
First the good news - Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee came out and endorsed the position taken by Senator McCain on the...
Get Peacekeeping Right
"Should the anticipated discussions fail to clear the path to the deployment of an effective force, the international community will be confronted...
U.S. Climate Policy: Hard or Soft Obstruction
(Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky will lead the U.S. delegation to the UN climate change conference next month in Bali. White...
Students protest CIA torture
On Wednesday a group of students from the University of California Santa Barbara sabotaged a CIA recruiting presentation to protest covert U.S....
How Do Americans View the World?
This week, I attended two fascinating briefings on how the American public is thinking about the world. The first was a press...
More Flop than Flip: McCain’s Accidental Pander
About a month ago, far-right activists pressed hard for Republican candidates for President to take a position on the Law of the...
The Weekly Gaff: Washington Times Finally Confirms Insanity
While Frank Gaffney wrote his first column without any reference to the Law of the Sea in nearly half a year, he...