Film: The Day Diplomacy Died
Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 present a screening with discussion of The Day Diplomacy Died, that includes a multimedia report back on the recent 9th Colloquium in Holguin, Cuba about the Cuban 5.
On the Brink of Another War
Let’s resist the temptation to intervene in Syria. This time, let’s say ‘lesson learned.’
Has Intervention by the United States Become, by Definition, a Mistake?
Is reflexive resistance to intervention in Syria the right reaction by progressives?
Take Syria Seriously–And Stay Out
Why start another body count in a Middle East conflict with no direct relationship to U.S. security?
Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria
What can we do in Syria? Unfortunately, not much.
From Here to Timbuktu
One longs for the heyday of ancient Timbuktu, when African scholars pored studiously over learned manuscripts in quiet libraries.
Preempting the Need for Vetting Insurgents
The C.I.A. is evaluating Syrian rebels to see which groups qualify for arms aid.
My Non-intervention Problem
How did a positive concept like intervention become a dirty word?
Syria, the United States, and the El Salvador Option (Part One)
The United States, NATO, and Israel have long sought the destabilization of Syria.
Governments Kill
Governments kill on our behalf. This arrangement is a form of social contract, which means that governments are basically contract killers.
Book Event: Fake and Funk’s Scramble for Africa
Efficacy, Wind-Blowing, and the Favored Villain
A response to Daniel Millenson: The divestment movement from Sudan still makes clear “the failures in our intellectual culture”
Divestment: Solution or Diversion?
The divestment movement from Sudan makes clear “indication of the failures in our intellectual culture”
Saving Darfur or Salvation Delusion?
It’s amid the U.S. government’s contradictory posturing and less-than-humanitarian geopolitical motives that the activist movement addressing Darfur operates.