The Iraq War was approved by both congressional houses, but there’s been neither a vote nor even a debate on Libya.
Ed Schultz’s Transformation from Progressive Firebrand to Cruise-Missile Liberal
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Human Rights
Libya: “R2P” and Humanitarian Intervention Are Concepts Ripe for Exploitation
Even if one can justify the war on Libya on humanitarian grounds, this is probably not why it’s actually being fought.
Is the Libya Intervention Directed at China?
The Chinese know why the U.S. is bombing Libya but not challenging Bahrain and Yemen: Bahrain hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Yemen’s port of Aden provides access to the Red Sea.
Interview with Cynthia Schneider
Cynthia P. Schneider teaches, publishes, and organizes initiatives in the field of cultural diplomacy, with a focus on relations with the Muslim world. She co-directs the Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) initiative. She is also a specialist in 17th-century Dutch art and served as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 2001. She spoke to Foreign Policy In Focus about working on the stereotyping of Muslims in American culture, engaging with the TV show 24, and watching the rise of Islamophobia in the Netherlands.
Corporations and the Arab Net Crackdown
Springtime in the Arab world is looking bleaker now that despots in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen and reactionary elements in Egypt have gained an upper hand against the pro-democracy protesters who have inspired the world. And the Internet, hailed sometimes in excess as a potent tool for these movements, has itself come under increasing fire from these and other autocratic states seeking to crush popular dissent.
Consistency Is the Hobgoblin of Those Who Oppose Supporting the Libyan Rebels
While it is deplorable that policymakers apply their moral outrage selectively, in accordance with perceived national interests, that does not mean we should abandon the moral impulse altogether for the sake of consistency.
Didn’t Take Long for Libyan Rebels to Hollow the “Humanitarian” Out of “Intervention,” Did It?
Libyan rebels seem to be allowing their prejudices to dictate who they’re arresting as Gaddafi loyalists.
Gaddafi’s Genocidal Buzzwords No Doubt Sent up Red Flag to Samantha Power
Gaddafi may not be in a position to incite genocide, but he can approximate it with massacres.
The Refugee Child Photographers
Lebanese photojournalist Ramzi Haidar was in Iraq covering the refugee crisis in 2003. Passing the time between assignments, Haidar talked and played with children who were curious about his equipment. Seeing what they saw and how they saw it, he became intrigued by the potential of child photographers to document the devastating circumstances in which they found themselves. Unlike adults who may have become jaded and cynical to a seemingly hopeless situation they did nothing to create, children are innately positive and open-minded.
Hey, Syrians, What Are You Complaining About? At Least Deraa Is Not Hama
Though not iron-fisted like his father, the hand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cracks down with is heavy.