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A Need For Understanding

The past week played host to two major news events. The first was the visit to Columbia University by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The second was the increasingly visible struggle in Myanmar for political and social liberty and the institution of democracy. Both topics received considerable attention and brought out many different views and commentaries, […]

Wanted: An End to Female Genital Mutilation, Reward: 20,000 Pounds and the Legion d‘Honneur

Another one from my blog.
The Jakarta Post reporting today on a new development in female genital mutilation in a piece entitled Police offer reward to stop female circumcision.
“London’s Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday that they were offering a 20,000-pound (US$40,500) reward for information that brought anyone carrying out female circumcision in London to justice.”
This […]

The Green Man’s Burden

Here is a piece taken straight from my blog. It seeks to establish a point of comparison between the European Colonists of the nineteenth century and today’s Global Warming activists.
Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” reflected the his time’s sentiments: colonize Africa to civilize the savage. Whether or not the ’savages’ wanted help […]

Rudy Giuliani isn’t as smart as he thinks he is

I wrote this entry on June 25th and posted it to my blog:

If you watched the GOP debate on May 5th then you’d know my candidate Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani got into a “micro-debate” about American foreign policy. If you saw it but don’t remember, let me refresh your memory with a partial transcript:
PAUL: […]

Kurdish Region Ripe for Investiment

This week while in Washington I had an opportunity to sit down with Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the chairman of the Kurdish Redevelopment Corporation.
The KRC is an organization that seeks to promote investment and capital projects in the Kurdish region, which is composed of northern Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Iran, and Turkey. […]