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Harvard nearly doubled its number of shares in oil stock PetroChina during the last quarter of 2004, despite widespread concern surrounding the Beijing-based company’s role in funding the ongoing genocide in Sudan...
...Khan has testified that the North Koreans were so appreciative that in 1999 they took him on a private tour of their nuclear facilities during his visit to Pyongyang. U.S. and IAEA investigators believe that Khan also traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and to such African countries as Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger. The purpose of those trips remains unclear, but intelligence officials have hunches: Saudi Arabia and Egypt are believed to be in the market for nuclear technology, and many African countries are rich in raw uranium...
...would have the right to elect its own local parliament, with control over education, policing and social policies. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity immediately rejected the plan; the republic has been effectively self-governing since the early 1990s and has close ties with Russia. A Breach of the Peace SUDAN U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply disturbed" by an attack near the town of Shangil Tobaya in the western Darfur region in which more than 100 people are believed to have been killed. African Union monitors said the Sudanese air force was responsible for the aerial bombardment...
Bush, more so than a John Kerry or a Hillary Clinton, can hold the allegiances of the bloc of voters most likely to decry such humanist missions abroad. That gives him the political capital necessary to venture into forgotten places like Sudan or Haiti, where the moral worth of the people who live there is often denigrated by the American public and news media to the point where we view them as almost subhuman. The American public, as of right now, refuses to tolerate the loss of American soldiers and the general expense necessary to improve the lives...
...this optimism of course begs the question, if Bush is so committed to this vision, why has he not acted where he could have already? Why did he abandon the mission in Liberia? Where is the democratic institution building in Haiti? What about military intervention in Sudan? This also, of course, brings to the forefront concerns about how readily Bush violated Iraq’s sovereignty without the support of the global community—a trend that could not continue if this larger mission were to ultimately be successful. For some, Bush’s troubled relationship with...