See. As I said yesterday, I told you the administration loves us. President Obama proclaimed that May is Jewish Heritage Month. Oddly enough, he also proclaimed that May 1 is both Law Day (yes, there is that stereotype about Jews) and Loyalty Day (and yes, there is the bigoted dual-allegiance …
By Cordelia Rizzo
The recent deaths of two graduate students from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (the “Tec”), caught in a fight between the Mexican armed forces and a drug cartel gang, challenged the traditional view of the human toll of the country’s war against …
For the love of the FSM this kind of language annoys me.
Rockefeller pledges to work with tech leaders to avert “cyber 9/11, cyber Katrina”
Can we be realistic about the very serious threats that the Internet poses without going off into hysterical language? Yes, I’m looking at …
April 24 is the date traditionally used to commemorate the Armenian genocide, as it was that day in 1915 that Ottoman officials arrested over 200 Armenians in Constantinople, jump-starting a cascade of atrocities that resulted in countless deaths. However, it wasn’t until last night that I was able to check …
Last week I served on the national selection panel for the Boren Fellowships of the National Security Education Program (NSEP). The fellowships are for graduate students (in rare cases for recent undergrads). NSEP also runs a scholarship program for undergrads (I know less about this). Both are administered …
Shakira headed to Phoenix yesterday to express her dismay to the mayor and police chief. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles today said he supports a travel ban on Arizona, also calling the new law “unpatriotic and unconstitutional.” And the Obama administration clearly isn’t thrilled, no …
This blog does not purport to cover all relevant news that takes place in Venezuela, but instead provides some insight into major issues. Now, however, if you wish to get the latest update straight from President Hugo Chávez you can do so by following his Twitter feed @chavezcandanga.
The move appears …
Last week Arizona’s governor, Jan Brewer, signed into law what are now the country’s harshest measures for responding to irregular (often referred to as illegal) immigration. The state has 90 days to put the law into effect. In summary, it has four main provisions:
- it is a crime to be …
Putin certainly has a penchant for megafauna. Over the past few years, he has been photographed with horses and tigers in a variety of poses and has stopped the baby seal slaughter in Russia. Now, he is off to the Arctic to save the polar bear. Just one day after …
Food crisis displaces masses in Niger
Food shortages in Niger have forced hungry country-dwellers to beg for sustenance in the capital, Niamey. Some 7.8 million West Africans will face food shortages in the coming year, and some say aid organizations are not …
China’s ratcheting up their state secrets laws. That’s never a good sign. NYT article.
There is an amusingly awful definition of state secrets being promulgated: they are ”information that, if disclosed, would damage China’s security or interests in political, economic, defense and other realms.” Presumably the story that the Chinese …
Another month, another chance to move forward on the US-Cuba relationship…
Progress seems to have stagnated lately, and April’s comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predict more of the same. Clinton, speaking at the University of Louisville at the beginning of this month, answered a question from the …
There have been at least two odd scenes in Beirut over the last couple of weeks. The first was a soccer game played by MPs which was supposed to demonstrate cross-sectarian cooperation, and the second was a fairly large march & rally whose participants called for a more secular Lebanon. …
A group of Democratic congressmen are circulating a letter on Capitol Hill for signatures in support of the two-state solution, expressing support for the White Houses efforts and egged on President Barack Obama to continue seeking resolution to the decades-old conflict.
The effort is led by Reps. Bill Delahunt …
