A sober look at the second amendment: Gun control in the US
Cynthia Fist addresses the issue of gun control in the United States, arguing that the right to bear arms should be weighed against the heavy cost in human lives that they represent.
India’s Development Diplomacy: Re-Engaging Afghanistan
The present approach of engaging regional players in Afghanistan by the United States could be scuttled by the bargaining postures of Iran, Russia, Pakistan, India and China on various issues of mutual concern. Rather than overtly depending on United States for guiding India through its AfPak strategy, India needs to proactively engage regional players- Iran, Russia and China through pro-active diplomacy, which could lead to potential joint problem solving initiatives. Also Indian initiatives could help defining issues in Afghanistan more in terms of creating value and bringing stability and security for all the concerned state parties.
Legal Corruption: the Cause of the Global Economic Crisis?
The multi-million dollar bonuses that American International Group (AIG) is handing over to nameless “executives”, after accepting billions in US taxpayer bailout money is, understandably, causing a great deal of alarm in the media and American public in general.
This massive misallocation of wealth, and the government’s inability or unwillingness to prevent it, is exposing a system of “legal corruption”. As Errol P. Mendes explains, the ability of economic elites to influence the political oversight and regulation of their activities through lobbying led directly to the current economic crisis.
Mendes concludes with a call to fiscal responsibility, a concerted effort to root out corruption (including so-called “legal corruption”), and some way to encourage ethical behaviour among elites.
Obama: Another Nobel Scandal
It is high time to have a discussion about this prize and bring it closer to what Alfred Nobel wanted it to be.
Statement on the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Obama should use the moral support of the Nobel prize to bolster his efforts to eliminate nuclear arms in our time.
The Importance of Method
Revolutionary Intercommunalism and the Right of Nations to Self determination,( edited by Amy Gdala) by Huey P Newton and Vladimir Lenin, Superscript Publishers, ISBN 0954291344, paperback, pp. 191, £10.
The Misnomer Continues
The Misnomer Continues Author: Peter Krupa Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on 08/18/2005 It could have been a step in the right direction, but it turned out to be just an accidental head-fake. In late July, Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials ditched the “Global War on Terror” in favor of the more […]
More in Sorrow Than in Anger
Emmanuel Todd’s best seller has been translated into English. Todd predicted the fall of the Soviet Empire and twenty five years later he is diagnosing the current ills of the other super-power. What has gone down well with the Franco-German readership may be greeted more cynically in the Anglo-American world.
Nice portraits
David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, Simon and Schuster, 2002. ISBN 0-7432-2323-3 (Pbk) pp. 557
Bill Brown 2
When the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA) began, Bill Brown and Joe Eldridge, and, later, others divided the tasks on a geographical basis. Bill took Central America, and for the next few years dedicated himself to bringing spokesmen for the oppressed and for change to Washington as well as highlighting the state terrorism that existed throughout most of Central America.