If Nelson Mandela were alive and an active revolutionary today, would he have been targeted for extrajudicial assassination?
Mandela in the Age of Drones
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The Human Rights Project: Determined by the Needs of the Powerful
Human Rights Day is an ideal time to acknowledge that what is presented as a pure human rights project is, for oppressed peoples, actually sullied by politics.
Yemen: Chaos, Conflict, and Revolution
Few in the West know that Yemen is not just the only state in the Arabian Peninsula with a republican form of government, but it was the first to grant voting rights to women.
In What World Does Spending 3/4 of a Billion Dollars on One Bomber Make Sense?
The more state-of-the-art military technology is the more can go wrong with it ― especially during war-time.
Is Iran Granted the Right to Enrich Uranium by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or Isn’t It?
Those who seek to deny Iran the right to uranium enrichment attempt to twist the NPT to their own ends.
Dependable Deutschland
Although allies continue to hope for more, Germany’s new foreign policy plans spell out more of the same – including a return to normalcy in the relationship with the United States.
Is the Central African Republic on the Verge of Genocide?
The Seleka militia in the Central African Republic seem to be following the Rwanda model for genocide.
Failure to Factor Nuclear Close-Calls Into National Security Equation Threatens Us All
One of these days the nuclear odds will no longer work in our favor.
Can Marvel Comics’s Latest Superhero Strike a Blow Against Islamophobia?
Marvel may just be tapping into the Islamic market with its latest superhero, Kamala, but she can’t but help but undermine Islamophobia.
One of the Many Ways Nazis Shot Themselves in the Foot by Persecuting Jews
Apparently Hitler seems to have forgotten that eliminating Jews would cause a crippling brain drain from Germany.