Shimon Peres intends to stress the importance of a moderate unity government with Kadima Chairman Tzipi Livni and Likud Chairman Benyamin Netanyahu tomorrow. Netanyhu is slowly solidifying a coalition that now includes Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman, who backed Likud yesterday. Due to this rightwing partnership, Kadima has virtually no viable coalition partners, leaving Livni […]
President Barack Obama should meet Professor Zedillo, former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, because Zedillo might provide valuable advice on how to approach the current economic crisis in the United States. Former President Zedillo, after being elected into office in 1994, inherited a country plagued by […]
The New York Times has an interesting interview with S. Frederick Starr, Professor and Chairman of John Hopkin’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute that provides more context for the recent announcement of the closure of the US base in Kyrgyzstan. He argues that the US was far too dependent on the base and the best route is […]
Martin Indyk of the Brookings Institution and, formerly, the Clinton administration echoes the widely held sentiments that 1. now is the time to advance a sustainable solution to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and 2. Barack Obama is the best man for the job. (You can also read this article at Time Magazine if you prefer red […]
… in an interview with the Guardian. He will meet with Senator John Kerry next week, and looks forward to the possibility of a future meeting with General Petraeus. One of the effects of the Gaza incursion of this December/January has certainly been the catapulting of the peace process to the front of everyone’s minds. […]
CBS News World Watch has a story about the future of summer ice in the Arctic, along with a video. Three scientists from Great Britain, together forming the Catlin Arctic Survey, will head to the North Pole at the end of the month. They will attempt to discern whether summer ice in the Arctic will […]
As the Durban II antiracism conference plenary sessions near conclusion, the U.S. delegation continues to attempt to change the agenda. The first conference elicited strong back lash from the United States and Israel, with Israel and some members of Congress encouraging the United States not to participate in this year’s events. During a State Department […]
Respected and beloved Africanist and human rights campaigner Alison Des Forges died last week in the plane crash near Buffalo. Best known for her indefatigable work on Rwanda, Des Forges not only is one of the foremost experts in the world on that country’s 1994 genocide, but she continued to reveal the complexities of that […]
The Boston Globe has a story about a partnership between a prominent Boston AIDS doctor, Bruce Walker, and an unexpected partnership he has formed in South Africa. As important as government and international action is in addressing Africa’s HIV-AIDS epidemic, it is important to remember that these sorts of partnerships in the scientific and medical […]
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China’s trade unions to help 10 million migrant workers In a new effort to ease the negative effects of an increasingly severe economic slowdown China’s trade unions announced to extend their help on 10 million migrant workers unable to find employment. The unions’ help, which was previously reserved for local workers with residence permits only, […]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s attempts of tying a Gaza truce deal to the return of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit has created dissent both within Israel and from Hamas. The National Security Cabinet debated a measure to continue the blockade on Gaza until the release of Shalit, while Israeli protesters declared that Olmert continues […]
Olivier Roy. That’s right Olivier Roy was at UCSD’s Political Science Department today and I was able to sneak in and listen to his lecture and Q & A. Mr. Roy, a Frenchman, is one of the most distinguished Western scholars of Islam. He has studied and worked for the United Nations and French foreign […]
A pretty good case can be made for South Africa representing the epicenter of the sporting universe right now. The country and the world are gearing up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and while Bafana Bafana just lost rather unceremoniously to Peru, South Africa’s national team had been riding a five-game winning streak, giving […]
Even as some observers find rays of hope in Zimbabwe’s new coalition government, which took power yesterday, yet another bizarre story plays out that makes one wonder just how earnest Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF are about sharing with the Movement for Democratic Change. Last week Zimbabwean police arrested an MDC official, Roy Bennett, on gun […]