For anyone who follows events in Afghanistan even casually, it is not news that children there are suffering tremendously. Most obviously, there…
For anyone who follows events in Afghanistan even casually, it is not news that children there are suffering tremendously. Most obviously, there…
1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What…
When Canadian pollsters seek the country’s views on the war in Afghanistan, they frequently pose a question about whether Ottawa has sufficiently…
Perhaps Afghanistan’s President Karzai took Obama’s campaign slogan seriously, as his first message to the president-elect spoke directly of a need for…
It’s the story of an unprecedented attack on Afghan civilians, and it’s not being told. On the afternoon of August 16,…
[This is a copy of my blog entry today at stopwarblog.blogspot.com, where I blog – presque tous les jours – on the…
Writing on his blog, Alex de Waal responds (civilly) to Jeff Weintraub’s bad faith questioning of de Waal’s position on the Darfur…
From an opendemocracy article by Peter Kimani, Kenyan journalist (link): Kenya is tottering on the precipice as post-election violence rocks different parts…
From an opendemocracy article by Peter Kimani, Kenyan journalist (link): Kenya is tottering on the precipice as post-election violence rocks different parts…
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