Re-opening the Meredith Kercher murder case is a last-ditch effort by Italy to save face.
What Does Italy Hope to Gain by Re-trying Amanda Knox?
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Human Rights
How Do Buddhist Attacks on Muslims Help Burma’s Government?
Security officials stood by during the attacks without intervening.
Wrong Choice, Again
The conclave to elect the new Pope was an opportunity for the Catholic Church’s all-male college of cardinals to choose someone who would lead the Church into the 21st century. As they did when they elevated Joseph Ratzinger to his role as Pope Benedict XVI eight years ago, they flubbed the opportunity.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/22)
Emphasis, as always, added.
Ugandan Human Rights Group Using U.S. Law to Sue Anti-Gay Pastor
The suit against Scott Lively maintains that his rhetoric threatens the safety of an already persecuted population, thus making it a crime against humanity.
Is Egypt Being Primed for a Coup?
On top of everything else, workers across Egypt have been on strike.
Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later
US troops left behind a devastated, tortured Iraq. Our real obligation, to the people of Iraq and the region and the rest of the world, is to transform our government and our country so that these resource-driven wars, shaped by lies and fought for power and for empire, whether in Iran or somewhere else, can never be waged again.
Will China Wear Out Its Welcome in Africa?
From the eight-lane Nairobi-Thika highway built by Chinese construction companies to the ubiquitous Chinese restaurants around town, the signs of China’s activity are everywhere in Kenya—right down to the friendly nihao called out by Kenyans as I walk down a Nairobi street. Elsewhere on the continent, however, the seams of this tight relationship are becoming stretched.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/19)
Is a country ever mature enough to possess a nuclear-weapons program?
“The Gatekeepers”: “We Became Cruel”
Cold-blooded killers see the light?