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February
2010
In case you haven’t noticed, world power efforts to contain and diffuse Iran’s nuclear plans aren’t working and haven’t been for years. Here’s five concrete steps that can be taken now towards more constructive relations with Iran.
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February
2010
In yet another surprising yet ignored turn in the Afghan shift from war to peacemaking, Western powers beyond NATO and the Afghan government have agreed to establish a $500 million fund to incentivize Taliban disarmament and reintegration.
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February
2010
Superpowers evolve or go the way of the dodo. Here are four ways to frame the question to yield pragmatic answers.
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January
2010
President Karzai’s new peacemaking approach to the Taliban would quicken the safe return of American soldiers and lead towards a better future for Afghanistan, but as far as US news is concerned it seems hardly a current event worth mentioning…
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January
2010
The vanishing of lower classes into a “middle” oblivion in rhetoric and policy should be stopped, as only then can the issues of the lower classes (indeed, all classes) start to be genuinely faced and addressed.
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January
2010
The saying “putting money where your mouth is” assumes that there is a distinction between the two. The US Supreme Court’s ruling this afternoon that corporations and unions can limitlessly fund political campaigns overlooks this distinction, and in so doing puts an end to American democracy as we know and love or hate it. This is one more act of an interventionist court that, as we have previously reported, is imposing a court-run democracy on the country.
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19
January
2010
No one likes to hear of the mistakes of heroes— except when they can help make better heroes of us all.
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14
January
2010
Google announced the launch of the Breaking Borders Awards to honor web projects displaying courage in support of freedom of expression, making it difficult to hold that the China row was an unexpected isolated event…
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January
2010
Will the ‘crackdown’ and ‘cowboy’ models of counterterrorism be replaced with dialogue and disarmament incentives, and if so can they be effective? “Dialogue is the best way … even with al-Qaeda, if they set aside their weapons and return to reason,” said President Ali Abdullah Saleh over the weekend, worrying US officials…
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January
2010
Speaking at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the top US diplomat called development a “strategic, economic and moral imperative” for the US, bold terms seldom heard with such vigor since John F. Kennedy launched the Peace Corps almost a half century ago. Then, today, her renewed Middle East diplomatic efforts were announced…
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