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...those who went in to Quincy House to vote two weeks ago, you just helped pick the person we will all look towards to lead the global effort on everything from climate change to Darfur...
...precious harmony. Songs like “Peace the Fuck Out” or “Re-offender” were mere propaganda pieces, just outgrowths of their politics. (Travis is an active opponent of the War in Iraq and leads campaigns against poverty and the genocide in Darfur.) The music sucked, the choruses were clunky, the melodies stuck in depressive repetition. Finally, in “Ode to J. Smith,” they have managed to personalize their politics and preserve their beauty. Through the character of J. Smith they attack modern society. And unlike their previous...
...China’s cooperation in reshaping financial markets and addressing climate change but also counter its commodity-seeking foreign economic policy, particularly its support for dubious regimes in Africa in exchange for natural resources. Specifically, the U.S. should do everything possible to persuade Beijing to take action about Darfur. Looking south, the U.S. must remember Latin America, which the Bush administration decided to forget well before 9/11. In those latitudes, the “missing neighbor” policy has only relinquished influence to populist leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, who have done...
...Africa has seen such a massacre before - in the exact same place, over the last 10 years. An estimated 5 million people have died as a result of conflict in Congo's east, a place whose warring factions have stymied the world just as badly as have those in Darfur or Somalia. Fighting between the rebel forces, led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda, an ethnic Tutsi, and Congolese troops had raged for months. It became clear in June that a January peace deal between the government and the rebels was collapsing, but little was done. "I've been working on Congo...
...vast nations like the D.R.C. or Sudan. Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister, is among those who believe that just because something is difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it." Says Evans: "In Congo, the problem is insufficient resources. Maybe MONUC has to be reinforced and upgraded. In Darfur, you have a lackluster result, yes, but you had to have peacekeepers with a mandate that was accepted by the government. A full-bore invasion [would have had] catastrophic results." Evans is also keen to highlight "unheralded, unacclaimed" R2P successes like in Kenya this year and in Burundi...