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...because people no longer found reasons to fight? Hundreds if not thousands of wars, small and large, have been fought since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Is it because nations and tribes found a conscience regarding mass death? Clearly not - the slaughter in China during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and in Rwanda between Hutu and Tutsi all offer bloody proof. Is it the U.N.? Um, no. Is it globalism and the web of commerce that increasingly connects the interests of the major powers? Yes, that certainly has an impact. But the global economy is a creation...
...from renewable, non-polluting sources. As a result, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is jockeying for a global leadership role on climate change. Arias was one of five keynote speakers to address the U.N. Climate Change Summit on Sept. 22, calling on the world to shift military spending to fight global warming - to "save our species from the real enemy." (See five eco-tourist hot spots worth visiting...
...Afghanistan Far from ending the conflict in Afghanistan, President Obama came into office declaring it the "war of necessity", and immediately ordered a further 21,000 U.S. troops into the fight. Since then, the sheer scale of the challenge has become apparent to his Administration, particularly after his commander on the ground said a further 40,000 troops were needed to turn the situation around. Even if, as now seems possible, Obama seeks a political solution in Afghanistan that involves some sort of power-sharing deal with the Taliban, the implementation of that policy won't look much like peacemaking...
Kennedy said that the upcoming election is “absolutely, unquestionably, the most important election in this state in two decades.” Explaining his endorsement of Khazei, he said that he believes Khazei to be the only candidate who will fight for reform “without fear,” and is primed to bring new perspectives to Washington...
...much of its 100-year history, spanning two world wars, the Cold War and the fight against terrorism, Britain's MI5 domestic intelligence agency has operated in total secrecy. The government acknowledged the existence of the service only in 1989 and publicly identified its leaders in 1992. Now, as part of efforts to make its operations more transparent, MI5 has given unprecedented access to its files to Britain's foremost intelligence scholar, Christopher Andrew, whose new book, The Defense of the Realm, is considered the most complete history of the agency ever published. TIME spoke with Andrew about the conspiracy...