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...asymmetrical calculations of terrorism, small numbers aren't the key; determination to do damage is. As Ranneberger concedes, no change in Somalia means "further deterioration." Increasingly bold ways of dealing with al-Shabab are being considered. The A.U. peacekeeping force is being expanded, with the hope of creating a "green zone" in Mogadishu. Hundreds of al-Shabab fighters have been pouring into Mogadishu recently in anticipation of a rumored TFG offensive. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has gone further, proposing invading Somalia, occupying the southern port of Kismayu and using it to take the fight to al-Shabab. Memories...
President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees for the construction of two nuclear reactors at a plant in Georgia. It is the first new nuclear project to be green-lighted in the U.S. since the 1980s. Once online, sometime in 2017, the reactors will generate power for 1.4 million people. While most hailed the move--the White House said the reactors will prevent the emission of 16 million tons of carbon dioxide each year--critics say safety standards for storing the plant's radioactive waste need to be improved...
Operation Green Hunt is what the Indian government calls it: a codename for a massive operation to counter the menace of left-wing activity in certain parts of India. It is a name that combines hints of green—which evokes the verdant forests that will be the theater of action—with the malevolence of a hunt. This left-wing “extremism” is interchangeably called Naxalism and Maoism. Naxalism, for an insurrection that erupted in a village called Naxalbari in northeastern India in 1967. Maoism, for the guiding philosophies of the principal actor...
...response to this growing threat, the Indian government launched a counter-offensive christened Operation Green Hunt in 2009. However, a “hunt” in one form or another has been on for a while now. Since 2005, there has been an armed militia called Salwa Judum (“Purification Hunt” in the local language) in the state of Chattisgarh, comprised mostly of tribal people and blessed by the government that purported to take on the Naxalite menace. This has created a state of near civil war in that state, often pitting people within tribes...
...Development Index in 2009 report. A breathless—and often mindless—form of development at the cost of the voiceless and marginalized is equivalent to practicing a form of internal colonialism. The state must stop conducting a war against its own people. Let crimson not taint green in Indian forestlands...