International Political Will

No U.S. troop cuts in Iraq before spring 2007? Is anyone really surprised?
It is September, after all. That lovely month when everyone returns from their summer vacations, television networks begin their new season of programming, the newest Toyota Camry model is released and the U.S. government announces that troops in Iraq “won’t be [...]

The newest tactic in the War in Iraq is not new at all – and I’m not just speaking about the war of misinformation being waged against the American people.
Trench warfare – and the scenes of death the world swore to never face again after World War I – is back. A [...]

Across the Pacific Ocean in Asia, the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11 passed with respectful thought and reflection. In the U.S., however, it appeared the attacks were, once again, being used as justification for political power grabs by right-wing hawks – many who felt they had been granted an eternal excuse for waging war [...]

I’ve only ever been able to try to understand what being on the ugly end of racism feels like.
I read books, watched documentaries and even dramatic Hollywood reenactments about the history of intolerance in the world, and knew the facts surrounding individual issues and events. But these could never convey the deep [...]

President Bush muddied the waters of definitions yet again on Tuesday in a speech telling Americans that anyone who doesn’t embrace Western democracy and capitalism is our enemy - and moreover - a terrorist:
“[Iran is] funding and arming terrorist groups like Hezbollah…[that] has killed more Americans than any terrorist organization except Al Qaeda…It was Hezbollah [...]