| Dec 20, 2010 | Peace / SecurityReading WikiLeaks cables is like eating a box of chocolates. You never know what kind you’re going to get. Some may be nutritious, but others may rot your teeth. Certainly, some of these cables revealed important issues. Yet you should view these leaks with some...
| | Peace / SecurityAfter the government’s second attempt to kill me, I fled Sudan. That was 2005, the year I was forced to abandon work, friends, and family to become a refugee in the United States. Now, 7,000 miles from home, I am fighting harder and making my voice heard to...
| | Peace / SecurityOkay, boys and girls, pull out your crayons, and let’s see if you can do a better job of coloring than the Department of Homeland Security. At long last, the obvious has dawned on our national security czars. Since March 12, 2002, back in the Bush-Cheney regime,...
| Nov 29, 2010 | Peace / SecurityAs deserts expand and droughts persist, desperate people begin fighting over the water that remains. Elsewhere, rising sea levels create mass migrations. These portraits of human tragedy caused by climate change have become environmental security threats that the U.S....
| | Peace / SecurityNorth Korea keeps its word, at least on the nuclear front. Pyongyang is building a light-water reactor (to eventually produce plutonium) and has launched a pilot uranium enrichment program with 2,000 centrifuges–the tools for nuclear bomb-making, according to...
| Nov 22, 2010 | Peace / SecurityI was at Guantánamo Bay prison on Halloween. In a ghoulishly fitting coincidence, that was the same day a former child solider was convicted for war crimes for the first time since the end of World War II. Eight years and one day after Omar Khadr arrived at...
