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...force by Blackwater employees, in which 17 Iraqi civilians died and 24 others were wounded. A month after this order, however, Blackwater’s officers are still active in Baghdad and its massive fort inside the Green Zone is still humming with activity. This defiance of the Iraqi government??and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s recent push for Blackwater to leave before the six-month deadline—is a terrible contradiction to America’s supposed respect for the autonomy of the new Iraqi government. Of course, there are numerous issues that...
...without being accused of anti-Semitism or labeled a self-hating Jew.” For the two authors—University of Chicago political science professor John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, former academic dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government??whose new book discusses that lobby, this statement clearly reflects personal experience.When the pair wrote an article, also entitled “The Israel Lobby” and published in the London Review of Books in 2006, they encountered what they call “a firestorm of criticism from prominent groups...
...rally was designed to increase international pressure on the Chinese government and encourage it to divest from companies that may play a role in funding the genocide. The 2008 Olympics, which will be held in Beijing in August, has increased scrutiny of the Chinese government??s human rights record...
...critique of liberal education is not new, but the timing was good. American conservatives, you may have noticed, don’t have much to fight for these days. Can you say “family values” with a straight face? What about “small government??? “Compassionate conservatism”? Moving on, then. Harvard, Berkowitz goes, ought to have a mandatory, great-books-style curriculum that introduces students to Western civilization. If our kids do not learn the basics, he says, it is because Harvard is letting internationalization and politicization compromise...
...rather than turn over the accused, the Sudanese government responded to the international arrest warrant by giving Harun the authority to investigate human rights abuses in Darfur. This week, they released the accused Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb from detention, claiming they had no evidence against him. And the government??s disregard for justice will continue so long as Sudan can count upon the inaction of the major powers...