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We arrive at a community of 100 tents situated in a circle. I'm prepared for the kinds of camps we've seen previously: hundreds of tarpaulins lined side by side. This community, in contrast, has been created on a human scale.
The U.S. would be well served by speaking and acting unambiguously about the importance of respecting the human rights of working people, and condemning violence against labor activists wherever it occurs.
As the Park51 project near Ground Zero has become painted as an issue of religious freedom, American Muslims are confronted with championing the cause of a man who may not accurately represent them.
Given the Israeli public's understandable skepticism about the chances for genuine peace with the Palestinians, it actually takes someone like Benjamin Netanyahu to give it a try.
The kind of thinking expressed by former Senator Chuck Hagel is what Obama needs to hear more often -- whether it is Team B or in Cabinet meetings or through National Security Council advisers.
It's a reminder of how efforts to globalize the United States model of social organization by race can cause the fragmentation of national identity in a regional power like Brazil.
"Back of the line" carries denigrating racial undertones rooted in America's past. The term assures a frustrated non-Latino electorate that unauthorized immigrants will be punished and remain second-class residents.
As Israel again talks peace while blocking a peaceful settlement, count on it continuing, without dissimulation, to agitate for war with Iran.
The race to pick a new leader for the British Labour Party has boiled down to a race between two brothers. Their disagreement is, at its core, about whether the New Democrat/ New Labour philosophy is the best a centre-left government can aim for.
My sole reason for optimism about the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is that I cannot imagine that Obama would have initiated this effort if it was doomed to failure. Why bother?
All Americans, especially Jews, who want to see a secure Israel, a viable Palestinian state alongside it, a stable Middle East and a respected United States should support Obama's policies regarding Israel.
It's true that by signing that piece of paper yesterday, President Obama again missed a chance to send a positive, constructive signal on Cuba policy. But it's not too late.
Ten years ago, not many people were fully aware that a geopolitical New Great Game was already unraveling in Central Asia. The Taliban were -- and remain -- just one of the (minor) players.
One of the least talked about aspects of the 2003 US-led allied incursion into Iraq is the Iraqi refugee crisis. Over the past seven years, over four million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes.
The floods in Pakistan are proving as devastating in every way as the Haitian earthquake, with the difference that Pakistan is a nation of not 8 million but 170 million people.
One year ago today, Yevgeniy Zhovtis, Kazakhstan's best-known human rights defender, was convicted of vehicular manslaughter and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Economic crimes are now global and need a global strategy. Responses to international corruption have been patchy, with enforcement agencies, the private sector and civil society all taking different approaches.
I have a grandson who just turned 11. Had he been 11 when the Afghanistan war started, he would be 19 or 20 now. He could be in Afghanistan.
Sajjad is the only one who can provide exact news of his mother. With a good deal of patience and thanks to Iranian bloggers, I managed to speak with him, and it is an extremely moving story.
Steve Sheffey, 2010.09.06
Dr. Charles G. Cogan, 2010.09.05
Alemayehu G. Mariam, 2010.09.05
