| Oct 18, 2010 | Peace / SecurityRecently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song: “Poppy Fields Forever.” Okay, John Lennon’s lyric was not about poppies, but strawberries. However, I started humming the song because I was thinking about our country’s...
| Aug 23, 2010 | 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 | Rights / DemocracyBlow that whistle, Sound alarm; You’ll get tagged, For endless harm. Iceland certainly needed a PR boost. It has never received proper credit for its strict and sustainable management of fisheries. Other nations would do well to follow suit. Instead, it’s...
| Aug 9, 2010 | Peace / SecurityFor the last few years, the war in Afghanistan seemed to be an afterthought in the U.S. media. That all changed in a hurry with the publication of tens of thousands of classified intelligence documents by the website WikiLeaks. Those files were shared with several...
