Libya It Can Work
Hand-wringing is the new American pastime, that and union busting. The commentariat has just gone addled on Libya. Congress should have been consulted, there should be an exit plan, there’s no...
View ArticleWhos a Target Drone Deaths Deserve Answers
Last week, U.S. drones reportedly struck a gathering of tribal elders in northern Pakistan, killing a significant number of civilians and sparking local outrage as well as rare denunciations from...
View ArticleWomen in the World Stories and Solutions Summit 2011
For a second year, Tina Brown, Editor in Chief of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, presented the Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit. Many of those who where at the Hudson Theatre in New York...
View ArticleCan a Palestinian Story Prompt Dialogue for Middle East Peace
Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-stealing. To set the town talking, the event would...
View ArticleObamas Not Returning His Peace Prize
The Libyan assault as well as continued American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan have many people saying that either the Nobel Peace Prize committee should demand the prize be returned or that the...
View ArticleThe Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy
When the apocalyptic cloud erupted over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world woke up to the dawn of the nuclear age. Today, if we survey the landscape of nuclear development across the planet, we see that...
View ArticleOn Libya We Should Support the President
What if the news this morning read: “Supported by air power and several armored tank divisions, Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers this morning moved into Benghazi. Snipers fired upon the rebels from buildings...
View ArticleReporting Syria 1984 and Tass All Over Again
George Orwell, writing in 1949 about the province of Oceania, referring to the USSR with its notorious Tass news agency, seems to be relevant again, in Syria of all places. By all accounts, the town of...
View ArticleObamas Latin America Trip Didnt Make Headlines But Signals Regions Growth
President Obama’s whirlwind tour of Latin America this week delivered some good news and bad news for Latin American watchers. First comes the bad the news, which I don’t think was all that bad in...
View ArticleVietnam WarEra Bombs Cause Current Day Casualties Demonstrating Need for...
In Laos recently, a 10-year-old boy was killed by a buried bomb he and a friend disturbed while playing. While his friend was killed instantly, the boy survived the initial blast. In a video exhibit at...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of the French Lead on Libya
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders and until last year President Sarkozy’s foreign minister, have long been champions of “the right to...
View ArticleThe day the Jordanian security lost its professionalism its neutrality and...
Any country’s security force system is made up of various apparatuses that are unified at the top. Police, anti-riot forces together with intelligence units are networked together to enforce a...
View ArticleAn Exit Strategy for the Leaders Refusing to Step Down
The coalition participating in imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, as well as the one that may get involved in Yemen, seems to have neither a clear exit strategy in the event of a protracted...
View ArticleWhen Disaster Strikes Federations Send Aid and Mourn the Tragedies in Israel...
There are times when major events loom on the horizon and we can see trouble from afar. And then there are those times when disaster strikes suddenly, causing shock, fear and sadness around the world....
View ArticleSunday Roundup
I was in London this week, where the news was filled with images of Finance Minister George Osborne pausing outside 11 Downing Street with a replica of the red “budget box” that has been used to carry...
View ArticleTo Return to Japan or Not to Return That is the Question
On March 15th I wrote about my decision to leave Tokyo. One of my main concerns at the time was that decision-making pertaining to the six overheating nuclear reactors at the Daiichi Fukushima nuclear...
View ArticleLibya Oil and Water Mix
Oil, of course, remains a key element in the fight for control of Libya. Via pipeline and tanker distribution, Libya’s oil resources supply a substantial part of the consumption in the United States...
View ArticleNo Looting in Japan
People around the world have marveled at the lack of mass-looting in Japan among the survivors of the recent earthquake and tsunami. Many people are still asking: Why was there no mass-looting? People...
View ArticleThe Middle East and North Africas Evolving Landscape
When the process of political change began in the Middle East and North Africa in January 2011, there was much hope among its people and concern among its governments about the manner in which this...
View ArticleTHE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
It is difficult to be an American Jewish organization advocating support for Israel today. On the one hand, there is the staunch belief that Israel must be defended at all costs, and that any division...
View ArticleSyria The Sectarian Genie Is Out of the Bottle
In the last 4 decades, it had been common knowledge that the Alawi community numbering about 15% of the population was the dominant power in Syria, due to its over-representation in the armed forces...
View ArticleUS in Top 5 For Executions Worldwide
By Brian Evans, Campaigner for Amnesty International USA’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign. Click image to open interactive map. First, the good news. In 1961, the year Amnesty International was...
View ArticleProtecting Civilians and Promoting Peace in Sudan Video
Three and a half months from now, the world’s newest nation will be born: the Republic of Southern Sudan. Heady times for a people who have fought for fifty years for freedom, and won the right to vote...
View ArticleNo Word for Tsunami Imagining the Unimaginable
By Rory O’Connor and Richard Bell Tsunami is a Japanese word — one sign of the island nation’s intimate relationship with the destructive forces of the ocean that surrounds it. Despite the fact that...
View ArticleWhen News Misinforms
It was June of 1967, a few hours before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, when my father sent us to Jericho away from the battlefront to stay with my grandmother. Back then, we did not have a...
View ArticleCubas Only Nuclear Reactor Is Crumbling
In our little room, he told us that morning about the time he had spent in the USSR. He’d only been in Havana a few hours, after an Aeroflot plane had brought him back from his long sojourn in the land...
View ArticleWhy Didnt Military Officers Investigate The Kill Team Sooner
This is the third Rolling Stone article that I’ve highlighted in the last month or so, but the magazine’s new special report, dubbed “The Kill Team,” is worth a read. It offers a thorough look at how...
View ArticleTime for a UN With a Protection Force in Libya
I recently returned from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where I gave a speech on UN reform at a conference on “Global Strategic Developments: A Futuristic Vision”. It was an incredibly...
View ArticleAnswers to Three Questions About Libya
Is this a just war? The word seems to make people edgy. And the time of reasonable debate (without risk of attracting the thunder of sovereignist neopacifism) on this very old concept of political...
View ArticleThe Urgent Situation in Cote dIvoire
Greetings, HuffPost readers. It has been awhile since I have posted. I have an important reason for returning. Some of my close friends and colleagues work in Cte d’Ivoire, addressing the very...
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