Tag: international politics
member name: Shava Nerad
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July 23, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
Shava looks into her crystal ball and says, Israel will establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon which it will effectively annex, and that buffer zone will include the Litani River.
For over . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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April 29, 2006 10:14 AM EDT --
America has lost her political way. The point of democracy is to work out our values in the public forum. However, with all the focus on "red states," "blue states," and . . .
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February 22, 2006 11:58 AM EST --
In a controversial essay in this week's Sunday New York Times Magazine, neoconservative historian and architech Frances Fukuyama apologizes for neoconservatism as a failed experiment:
Radical Islamism . . .
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February 22, 2006 12:27 PM EST --
The New York Daily News reports:
David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations...was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.
CBS reports . . .
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March 30, 2007 03:12 AM EDT --
Let me tell you a story.
This is the story of a kid from Missouri who found the American Dream in a less cynical part of our recent history. He comes from a family long rooted on this continent, . . .
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February 21, 2006 10:36 PM EST --
Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security, has been called to task by Republicans and Democrats in Congress this week for his proposed deal, handing over control of six American seaports to a company . . .
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February 27, 2006 08:22 AM EST --
Political cartoonist Doug Marlette takes the critics of free speech to task in Salon:
Why haven't the true Muslims, moderate religionists, men and women of good will, risen up to condemn those who . . .
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April 04, 2006 10:08 PM EDT --
A truly dynamic panel and award ceremony in Cambridge this month celebrates the courage of writers and journalists in wartime.
The Pen and the Sword: Writing and Expression in Wartime will be honored . . .
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April 29, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
Gas company profits have been big news this week. How do we interpret these numbers?
There is something of a mixed signal that comes through with these numbers. For many of us, who are not . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
It's always a little tricky to report on a news event you've just participated in, but Amnesty International's Irrepressible campaign against Internet censorship just had a conference today . . .
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March 07, 2006 11:31 PM EST --
Note that this is republished with permission (see end of article). I love stratfor's reports, which include geopolitical, security, and other alerts and analysis. An excellent service! . . .
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February 27, 2006 12:42 PM EST --
From today's Eugene, OR Register-Guard, this letter to the editor by Mark Brenneman:
When I read that Iran has renamed Danish pastries to Rose of Muhammad due to the snafu over editorial cartoons, . . .
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March 01, 2006 11:50 AM EST --
[warning -- this article doesn't contain strong language but the film does]
Ha Ha Ha America (if that link doesn't work, try this) by Jon Daniel Ligon (MFA, Brown, 1990) was one of the shorts . . .
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March 05, 2006 12:52 AM EST --
MSNBC's blog brings us this video from al-Jazeera:
In case you've wondered if Arab media ever entertains a view critical of Islamic radicals, this video answers the question. Obviously it's . . .
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March 08, 2006 02:10 AM EST --
KindHearts in Ohio has been shut down by the Treasury Department, despite a Senate Finance Committee investigation that found that the charity was above-board.
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March 07, 2006 09:03 AM EST --
In an apparent effort to solidify political base in advance of Israel's March 28th elections, Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz is getting tough on crime.
The day after Israel staged a "targetted . . .
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