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Blog Post Archive
Gabriel Sanchez Zinny: Mapping a New Era for Latin America, the United States and Europe
With Latin America on the rise, there are many areas for cooperation, and many problems that demand closer ties.
Donald Gross: The U.S. Perilously Ignores Island Conflicts in Asia
The fallout between the Philippines and Taiwan has been considerable, and recent events demonstrate that the United States ignores the disputes over the small islands in the South China and East China Seas at its peril.
John Sifton: The Real Costs of CIA Cash
(Washington) -- When the New York Times reported recently that the CIA routinely provides cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, totaling in the tens...
Rodger Kamenetz: The Angel Of New Orleans Meets The Angel Of Tibet
I hope you will meet us not just as a people struggling with social problems or even ecological catastrophe, but also you will somehow meet the angel of New Orleans in some of us, and that we will somehow also feel the angel of Tibet speaking through you.
Alon Ben-Meir: Humanitarian Disaster And Political Illusion
The continuing carnage and atrocities sweeping across Syria and the savagery committed against innocent men, women and children defy the most nightmarish dehumanization committed by...
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: Time for the Big Push to Defeat Malaria
As a global community, our fates are often more intertwined than we like to imagine. Controlling malaria isn't only a prospect of preventing needless deaths, it is an economic imperative.
Green Futures: A Solar Fridge for Fresh Food in Hot Climates
Food shortages in India are compounded by a lack of cold-chain storage facilities, but a new solar-powered cold storage device, developed by the University of Cincinnati in partnership with industry, could put this problem on ice.
Carlos Carnicero Urabayen: Europe's Ghosts Are Here to Stay
As the lack of trust and discontent continue growing, the citizens are turning their back on the traditional pro-European political parties and supporting others who are against the EU.
Bruce Fein: The Civilization Genome Project
A civilized society honors virtue, wisdom, self-restraint, and a search for truth without ulterior motives. It is not preoccupied or awed by technological wizardry, scientific discoveries, limitless wealth, athletic marvels, or weapons of mass destruction.
Joy Huber: 5 Things Angelina Jolie Teaches Us About Cancer
As more details have been revealed, I have reflected on what one of the world's most beautiful and most recognizable women has taught us recently about cancer.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: From Sudan to North Korea and Syria: A Plea to President Obama to Activate His Atrocities Prevention Board
It is not too late for the Obama administration's Atrocities Prevention Board to take the lead in thwarting mass atrocities. Everyday it fails to act is an invitation to Khartoum, Pyongyang, Damascus and their ilk to step up their assaults on human lives and dignity.
Ethan Chorin: 8 Things the US Should Be Doing in Libya: Effective Immediately
Many in Washington now dismiss further assistance to Libya as useless: the Libyans themselves are fractious and have limited 'absorbtive capacity.' At the same time, it is wrong to say we have no influence in Libya, or that we have no means of increasing that capacity.
Emanuel Pastreich: Put the Environment at the Center of the Global Economy: An Argument for the Eco-Currency
We must hardwire the health of the ecosystem directly to the standard measurements of economic health so that the state of the environment is immediately visible in all economic transactions. One possible approach is the introduction of a global "eco-currency."
Neil Thrun: 'Tender Shreds' Explores Jewish Sexuality And Politics
Andi Arnovitz's "Tender Shreds," at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, is a powerful exhibition of artworks that combine the artist's unique feminist and Jewish Orthodox viewpoints.
Richard Javad Heydarian: Philippine Elections: The Sound and the Fury
For many frustrated Filipinos, Faulkner's characters perfectly match what they -- have and continue to -- see as a group of vicious, greedy politicians using the language of public service and invoking familial pedigree to woo a largely underprivileged electorate.
Andy Jud: Who Is This Lanata Destroying the Kirchner's Fate?
Maybe the American audience does not know too much about what is going on in the Argentina media world and never heard about a situation...
Desmond Tutu: Talking About Rape
Yes, governments must step up. But so should we all. Why shouldn't rape be dinner table conversation? We talk about war, we talk about death, we discuss values with our children. But on the subject of sexual assault, we remain silent and squeamish.
Sara Afzal: Sanctions Are No Medicine for the Iran-U.S. Standoff
Most Iranians would obviously be strongly opposed to war and the tortoise-paced path to diplomacy with the U.S. is of less concern than living day-to-day in a stagnant economic climate, where food prices become more and more expensive and basic medical needs are not satisfied.
James Dorsey: Soccer Emerges as Focal Point of Dissent in Saudi Arabia
Soccer is emerging as a focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich kingdom that despite banning demonstrations by law is struggling to fend off the waves of change sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.
ZP Heller: Lessons From Bangladesh
The vast majority of Bangladesh's exports -- 80 percent -- come from its $18 billion garment industry. However, according to the World Bank, Bangladesh ranked last in wages for factory workers worldwide in 2010. What would this mean for western consumers who have benefited from Bangladesh's cheap labor?