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...endorse Barack Obama?I'm concerned about a President who really believes in conflict resolution and will go to additional lengths. Promotion of peace is expensive, less expensive than war, but it costs money to empower people. When you empower people you promote peace. Conflict resolution is important. The environment is very, very important so we need to stop the corporate control of our foreign and domestic policy. Fighting poverty is another major issue; when we resist special interests we get better at it, but why can't we fight poverty in America and around the world? It all goes...
...Perhaps, then, we can initially appreciate the resignation in Staples Incorporated’s statement in September 2007, that read: “Corporate pressure is no substitute for the coordinated international diplomacy that is required to resolve the conflict in Sudan...
...Corporate pressure can, however, have an indirect impact on the trajectory of international diplomacy. Olympic sponsors have the ability to sign a statement of concern about the ongoing conflict in Darfur and to exert public or private pressure on the Chinese government to suspend arms sales to Sudan, press for full deployment of UNAMID, and support an immediate ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement...
...traditional vein of human-robot relations, we built them, they got too smart, and they took over. Even more eerily, some of them are now built to look just like humans, and it’s difficult to tell them apart from the real thing, making the conflict all the more fraught. The surviving dregs of humanity—including military commander William Adama (Edward James Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell)—decide to search for a new home on a mythical planet called Earth, with the attacking Cylons close behind. Wait a second...
...Still, analysts point out, India is yet to formulate a clear-cut policy on how to deal with issues where its interests conflict with those of the United States. "And it's high time it did," says Sikri. "If India could take an independent stance 50 years ago, it should be able to do so now when it is too big to be pushed around...