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...Nader Nadery, director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, is skeptical. "On the surface, people say they will obey the warlords out of fear" in areas where rule of law is lacking, he says. "But when they know that ballots are secret, they will vote how they want to choose." Opinion polls show that 80% of Afghans have an independent voting attitude, he says, but laments the fact that "some leaders are stuck in the old ways of doing politics." (Check out a story about the warlords of Afghanistan...
With 20,000 U.S. troops set to arrive in Afghanistan in the months ahead, some worry that more forces will mean more contact with the insurgents. Western military planners counter that the extra boots on the ground will lessen the dependency on airpower - and the risk of civilian deaths. Nader Nadery, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, says it's "too soon to judge" whether changes in coalition policy are making a difference since the fighting season in Afghanistan has just begun. However, says Nadery, what's certain is that the Taliban continue to use civilians as human...
...Ralph Nader The former presidential candidate and consumer advocate's latest book is The Seventeen Traditions Paul Hawken is a relentless networking advocate for sustainable businesses worldwide. His books (for example, The Ecology of Commerce) and companies have persuaded businesses to see the efficiency and productivity of environmentally harmonious practices...
...Certainly, there was some undeniable racialism—Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland calling Obama “uppity,” rabid left-winger Ralph Nader referring to him as “Uncle Tom,” and the ever-clever rhymesters at Fox News calling Michelle Obama “Obama’s baby mama” come to mind. But Dickerson’s assertion that for “a lot of voters... when you talk about experience with respect to Obama, that’s code for people’s continuing uncomfortableness about...
...invited to visit Walter Reed [Army Medical Center] by Ralph Nader. I had been on the Nader bus in 2000. And after the 2004 election, Nader said, "A mother at Walter Reed has asked to see me. Do you wanna go?" I said yes immediately. I'd never been to America's most famous military hospital, so off we went. And here is this young man. 24 years old. Very thin. His cheekbones stuck out. He was totally whacked out on morphine. And his mother explained his injury to me. He was in Sadr City, in an uncovered truck, when...