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UN Emergency Peace Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
For the past four weeks or so I've been meeting extensively with Congressional staff about a proposed UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS)....
A Modest Proposal
Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson ran an intriguing piece yesterday worth mentioning. In Global Safeguards for a Global Economy he suggests a...
The Lesson We Must Learn From Darfur
Faced with the horror of genocide, we struggle to learn its lessons - to discover how to make the unfulfilled promise of...
Closing Gitmo
The Washington Post Editorial Board today urged President Bush to close the U.S. prison at Gitmo and seek another way to hold...
Happy Belated Birthday, Eric Arthur Blair!
Or should I say, George Orwell? After being reminded of this interesting historical tidbit, I went back and took a peek at...
Cheney at the Center of Torture Policy
The WP blog carries an important piece from Gellman and Becker titled "Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power." It highlights how the...
Getting the Ball rolling on a UN Emergency Peace Service
I am writing from the newly painted intern office to say that we are at it again. For the past week we...
A Fatally Flawed Approach to Foreign Policy
Detached from reality; surely that is the only explanation for the conduct of the member of Congress and/or their staffer when they...
Levin: Lincoln’s Example for Iraq
As you may have gathered from some of my previous writings, I am a native of Detroit, Michigan. Though my wife and...
Rule of Law v the dictator and the U.S.?
General/President Musharraf has, at least since 9/11, been viewed as an American stooge by Pakistanis of all political persuasions and at today's...
Carl Bernstein: A Personal Encounter
When I wasn't outside playing baseball or some other sport in the spring and summer of 1973, I was glued to the...