International Political Will

America has long claimed to be a “shining city on a hill,” a righteous nation that has been called to spread freedom throughout the world. Critics claim that this ideology can create an agenda that is impossible to live up to, and that such ideologies belong in the minds of superheroes in comic books.
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Can you hear it? Faintly, softly - but ever encroaching - the drumbeat of war. The rich and powerful with everything to gain but nothing to lose from the slaughter of innocent lives - be they American soldiers or brown and Muslim civilians - are once again using propaganda, rhetoric and misinformation to [...]

Congress is considering raising minimum wage for the first time in 10 years but not without a fight. The usual suspects are spouting talking points straight from their economics courses that such an increase will signal the end of small businesses. They point to the recent “growth” of the U.S. economy as proof [...]

I find it hard to write about the events of the world when so much appears to be going wrong, and apparently lessons never learned. Instead I have been focusing on other writing, attempting to divert my attention from the human misery that is the modern world. The year 2006 has been a [...]

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 [...]