Foreign Ops: Go with the Senate Numbers
This week the Senate is taking up the State Department and Foreign Operations appropriations bill. In two key areas, contributions to international...
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Massive Step Back on Darfur
Our friends at Human Rights Watch just sent out this advisory on Ahmed Haroun. "(New York, September 6, 2007) - Media reports...
Grandmama: Nuke “Accident” Not So Accidental?
The Coffee House's Larry Johnson (not really the Larry "Grandmama" Johnson ...or even the KC Chiefs' Larry "L.J." Johnson), wondered about the...
One Step Forward on Darfur?
UN SG Ban Ki-Moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir just announced that Sudan would be meeting with the Darfur rebels in Libya...
Ban in Darfur
The BBC is covering UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's important trip to Darfur/Sudan. The fact that he has taken the time to...
“Hey, anybody see those five nuclear-armed Advanced Cruise Missiles?”
Earlier today it was reported that five nuclear-armed ACMs were transported via USAF B-52H Bomber from North Dakota to Louisiana...by accident. That's...
Enjoy Labor Day Because Tomorrow Begins Post-Labor Day
Over at Informed Comment Global Affairs (as well as Daily Kos ), Barnett R. Rubin has spent the last several days discussing...
Good News for Your Labor Day: Haleh Esfandiari Released
On Sunday, three months after the Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari was accused of spying, detained and imprisoned by Iranian officials, she was...
‘Scramble for the Arctic’
As my colleague Scott Paul has written on numerous occasions (here and here and here), it is important for the U.S. Senate...
Progressive Globalism for the 21st Century
If the old adage holds true that every crisis creates an opportunity, the current state of U.S. foreign policy -- combined with...
The Rights Fight
Check out this interview in the Santa Fe Reporter with Jameel Jaffer. Jaffer is a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union...
The Role of Psychologists in U.S. Sponsored Torture
An interesting story published today on Salon.com reports on the position of psychologists in the U.S. vis a vis coercive interrogation strategies...