International Political Will

There are a few things in life that have proved true over time:

HDTV is not a good thing when watching news anchors that have had too much plastic surgery.

Permanently wearing a blue-tooth earpiece does not make you richer, more professional, or more respected. It just makes you look like you wish you were a part [...]

Another year, another Israeli-Arab war.
And another pile of horseshit to convince us that it is only the Muslims’ fault.
The six-month ceasefire in Gaza ended in late December, and – according to American mainstream media, pundits, politicians, and so-called journalists – it ended because Hamas started firing rockets.
Okay, but such an illogical conclusion requires several conditions:
Let’s [...]

You probably had never heard of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The terrorist group reportedly behind last week’s attacks in Mumbai was formed in the early 1990s, and initially focused on wresting Kashmir from Indian control. But make no mistake: the Mumbai attacks were not about Kashmir.
The November attacks in Mumbai were retaliation for the ongoing US/NATO [...]

Just after seven o’clock on a Wednesday morning in early December 2007, the ugliness of the Taliban insurgency struck again in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital city. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a mini-bus full of people commuting from their Kabul neighborhood of Chilsitoon, killing 13. As with most terrorist acts, the [...]

Claims are often made that the United States supports and funds autocratic despots in countries around the world, thwarting democracy when it doesn’t fit America’s interests. Despite an abundance of information, these links between dictators and the U.S. government are often tenuous and difficult to prove.
This gives the right-wing many excuses and arguments to [...]