by Paul Mutter | Oct 19, 2011 | War & Peace
The United States announced this past week that it is deploying a 100-man mission to assist the Ugandan government in tracking down the remnants of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a force whose bloody conflict with the Ugandan military has devastated northern...
by Kwei Quartey | Oct 18, 2011 | Human Rights, Women
Three women are sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace. One is Yemeni human rights leader Tawakul Karman. The other two are African: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia’s current president and Africa’s only female democratically elected head of state, and her...
by John Feffer | Oct 18, 2011 | Environment
Barack Obama was green when he entered the Oval Office. He was a relative newcomer to politics. He was also the most successful fundraiser in presidential history, hauling in more green than the two Democratic and Republican candidates in 2004 combined. And he was,...
by Samer Araabi | Oct 18, 2011 | Human Rights
In early October, Senate Republicans reversed a yearlong policy of deflection and unanimously confirmed Robert Ford as the U.S. ambassador to Syria. Though Ford has served in the post since his recess appointment by President Obama in early 2010, Republicans had...
by Rob Prince | Oct 15, 2011 | War & Peace
“Up from the grave he arose; with a mighty triumph o’er his foes” These are the opening lines of a Protestant hymn, which long ago a roommate of mine used to sing when he had one too many beers. As that happened more than once on those bygone days, I...
