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Condemned by Statehood: Why Al Qaeda Sees No Innocent Americans For the average American, terrorism is quite a frightening phenomenon. It is frightening because civilians can no longer let their soldiers face the fear of death and injury alone. Civilians feel targeted and most do not understand why.
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Americas
Obama: Fear of the Fear The Obama candidacy has energized liberals and progressives in a manner not seen in the past two decades. There is, however, a certain measure of irrationality to this exuberance once one actually interrogates his policy positions. While starkly diff...
Asia/Pacific
Boycotting Beijing in Europe After the Earthquake How China was Able To Prove its Worth as an Olympic Host.  The first few months after China's nomination to host the 2008 Summer Olympics proved quite challenging for the Asian country. Still handling the delicate matters surrounding th...
 
Europe
Putting Iceland’s Crisis in Perspective: Wall Street’s Legacy Comes to Europe The term ‘national bankruptcy’ is not being thrown around lightly in Iceland these days. In the last two months, the country’s three largest banks were nationalized, its stock market briefly suspended trading, and its currency, the ...
N. Africa & Mid East
Saudi Arabia Takes On Al-Qaeda in the Chat Room, in the Courtroom, and on the Couch Saudi Arabia frequently finds itself at the butt of scathing criticism against U.S. allies allegedly complicit in the facilitation of terrorism. After all, 15 of the 19 orchestrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks hailed from Saudi Arabia. The sta...
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
Two Harmful Diseases: HIV And Poverty Last week’s pardon of six foreign medical workers accused of intentionally infecting over 400 children in Libya with HIV came as a big sigh of relief to many international observers and medical experts. The trial of the accused was highly publi...
Open Forum
Going beyond the barriers of sovereignty: the need for a United Nations Environment Organization On September 2007, while president Nicolas Sarkozy was making his first speech at the 62nd   session of the UN General Assembly, French minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Bernard Kouchner, invited some civil society participants to discuss th...