| Sep 13, 2010 | Peace / SecurityAfter 20 hearings and more than four months of debate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is gearing up to vote on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed in April. New START...
| Sep 6, 2010 | Peace / SecurityWhen running from the law, one common maneuver that criminals make is to change their names. Adopting an alias has also been tried as a public relations strategy by corporations that find themselves struck with an image problem. Most recently, this deception has been...
| Aug 23, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe war in Iraq is over. Or so the government and most media outlets will claim on September 1, by which time thousands of U.S. troops will have departed the land of two rivers for other assignments. With this phase of the drawdown, says President Barack Obama,...
| | Peace / SecurityGreat resources, Wealth galore; Guess there’ll be Another war. As if war, tyranny, drugs, corruption, disease and misogyny weren’t misfortune enough for Afghanistan, now the Pentagon reports that it also suffers that worst affliction of all–mineral...
| Aug 16, 2010 | Peace / SecurityA “false positive” diagnosis causes relief when it means earlier signs of cancer were wrong. In Colombia, a “falso positivo” deepens grief, for it means the suspicion that a murdered youth belonged to the guerrilla forces was a mistake....
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