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Commentary / Department: 60 Second Expert
By Conn Hallinan, September 22, 2009
No matter how you look at it, the numbers just do not add up for an impossible task in Afghanistan.
By Max Burns, September 11, 2009
Protests continue in a virtual world where security police and censors are unable to tread.
By Ian Williams, August 3, 2009
The UN secretary general has taken a forceful position on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
By Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord, July 14, 2009
139 countries have ratified the disability treaty. But not the United States. The Obama administration can change that with a stroke of the pen.
By Kia Mistilis, July 10, 2009
Oil companies and the Nigerian military are attempting to maintain control of what will soon be one-quarter of U.S. oil imports.
By Shibil Siddiqi, June 25, 2009
In its fight against the Taliban, the Pakistani government is battling a creature of its own making.
By Stephen Zunes, June 22, 2009
A rundown of how Obama failed to address Egyptian and Saudi repression in his address to the Muslim world.
By R.S. Zaharna, June 22, 2009
For the United States to focus only on improving its image in the Arab and Muslim world is to see only half of the picture.
By Ira Chernus, September 29, 2007
American foreign policy is built on a deep foundation of Christian theology.
By John Feffer, August 17, 2007
The United States is negotiating with North Korea but hasn't changed its fundamental policy toward the region.