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Feature: Note to Calderon: Look to Venezuela and Nicaragua for Smuggled Weapons
Global Organized Crime
Much has been made of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's claim that US-sourced and manufactured weapons, smuggled across our southwest border, continue to enable the cartel violence that has killed more than 22,000 innocent men, women, and children. But as a DHS source notes, there are plenty of people who know better, high-level officials in the CIA, leaders in the Senate, policymakers in the US Department of Justice and in the White House, who understand that billions in small arms, assault rifles (manufactured in the US, Russia and the PRC) RPGs, AK-47s, SKS type arms, fighter jets, and various other instruments of sudden destruction intended for resale have been...
IndiaHow Religious Festivities are Becoming Social...
Hinduism is a religion of festivities. Pomp, color, dance and music, assortment of delicacies, traditional costumes and merry...
Development AidIran Loans More than $250 Million to Bolivia
Interesting article from the Voice of America today. Of particular importance in this news: 1) the loan is intended...
Arms Control and ProliferationWill Israel Attack Iran? Will US?
Jeffrey Goldberg's article in the September Atlantic, in which he argues that Israel almost inevitably will attack Iran's...
FARC Trades Cocaine for Arms from Venezuela
There is evidence that FARC has been trading cocaine for arms brokered by Venezuelan middlemen, entrepreneurs who are, at...
IraqLong on Platitudes and Short on Persuasion,...
"We have now been through nearly a decade of war. We have endured a long and painful recession. And sometimes in the midst...
AfricaOptimism in Kenya
It is exceedingly rare for an event in Africa to be met with near-universal acclaim. But the approval of Kenya's new constitution...
Southern AfricaPomp in Southern Africa: Deja vu All Over...
This time in the Kingdom of Swaziland as Eastern and Southern Africa heads of state and Government convene for the...
Law and Security StrategyHow Many Chinas Are There In China?
Nine. At least that's what The Atlantic said last year. In an effort to demonstrate that China is not as monolithic as...
Note to Calderon: Look to Venezuela and Nicaragua...
Much has been made of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's claim that US-sourced and manufactured weapons, smuggled across...
Ending the Strike . . .
It looks like the major public sector strike in South Africa might be coming to an end. The government has upped its offer...
The UN Mapping Report
Last week the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights long-awaited mapping report on the crisis in...
Climate ChangeLisa Jackson's EPA
"Lisa Jackson is doing exactly what an Environmental Protection Agency Administrator is supposed to do - thoughtfully...
Africa Rising: How the "New Global Challenge”...
If you are a company from the overlooked continent, how do you penetrate the international market? For 40 emerging...
U.S. DiplomacyWhy the U.S. Keeps Sending Ex-Presidents...
How do you pick an envoy for a "rescue" mission to North Korea? Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin looked at how this question...
IranAhmadinejad & The Iranian Tipping Point
With the spectacular branding of French first lady, Carla Bruni, by the Iranian state media as 'prostitute', the world once...
BangladeshHasina's Claim To Work With Journalists a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's exhortation that the journalists work with her to consolidate democracy sounds more like a...
General Odierno Expresses Concerns about...
While overseeing the departure of American forces in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, warned Sunday that a new Iraqi government may...