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Sudan Opens Fire on UNAMID
Oops! Sudan acknowledged Thursday that its troops shot at a United Nations convoy in Darfur, reversing an initial denial, but it in...
President Bush Approves Reduction in U.S. Nuclear Stockpile
Yesterday, President Bush ordered a reduction of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, which would shrink to under 1/4th of its size at the...
Bombers Kill Dozens in Algiers
Details are still emerging from Algiers where two bombs left dozens killed in and around the local United Nations offices. The death...
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...
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...
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....
American and Russian Publics Favor Steps to Eliminate Nuclear Stockpiles
Last Friday, World Public Opinion.org released a poll exploring American and Russian opinion on nuclear weapons policy. Results reveal that the public...
A Fair Bill for the World’s Farmers
More than 70 years ago, Congress created the Farm Bill. It was designed to give American farmers a safety net when the...
Retired JAGs: ‘Waterboarding is Torture’
Just in case our recent array of posts and our organization's stand against Attorney General nominee Judge Mukasey are not convincing enough,...
The Weekly Gaff and John Warner’s Wisdom
This is the second "Weekly Gaff," a feature inspired by Frank Gaffney, who has engineered a campaign of misinformation in the pages...
Mukasey: ‘the last, best hope’…oh my!
As Raj Purohit and Scott Paul have noted, we are strongly opposed to Judge Mukasey's nomination to be our country's next Attorney...