"Leaders can eat what they want as long as they take decisive action to deliver the policies and the aid in agriculture that is needed to ensure that poor people who are suffering from high food prices are helped," said Alexander Woollcombe, a spokesman for the British aid group Oxfam.
President-elect Obama, Iranians are wonderful people. They don't deserve harm.
On the sheltered campus of the venerated New Jersey institution Lewis and her colleagues attend, moral outrage was finally brewing.
Thanksgiving is a time of reflection, and for me it always brings me back to my incarceration in Zimbabwe last year. Every day I am more thankful fo...
China's policies, financial and otherwise, are aimed not at intimidation but at forcing the U.S. to bind itself to China. When the bad times come -- I suppose they're already here -- neither will be able to abandon the other.
Washington and activists around the world need to focus on Beijing's investment strategy -- its economic interests are undermined by its present foreign policy and offering China real alternatives.
The people in eastern Congo are tired; we have been running for more than a decade now. We need to sit down, live in peace and raise our children.
It would seem Robert Mugabe's reputation precedes him. This past year, the world watched as the 84-year-old Zimbabwean dictator terrorized his own pe...
When it comes to seeing the world change and history made one of the best seats from which to watch is the anchor chair... and this week what a view.
Trying to make death by overwork acceptable to any society, because survivors are able to get some monetary benefit is ridiculous, repulsive and outrageous.
The self-funded Passion of the Christ brought in $611 million worldwide and counting, in part thanks to Christian groups such as Campus Crusade and Focus on the Family.
One of the lessons the U.S. could learn from the conflict is that America is no longer the most effective nation when it comes to interfering, influencing and finally resolving conflicts among nations.
I mean, you almost expect it from a rag like the Daily News, but what about everybody else?
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
On Thursday, will.i.am, Elle Macpherson, Queen Rania of Jordan and Kristin Davis came together at the U.N. to launch the 'in my name' campaign, a challenge to world leaders to fight world poverty.
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AWESOME......She's gonna chase the sudanese president outter DAFUR
I was very impressed with her speech at the Press Conference.
Ambassador nominee Rice will bring a long absent conscience to the UN. One indication on how she may represent Americans can be gleaned from a recent Brookings Institution paper on genocide she co-authored. It concluded,
"The outrage and alarm sounded over the continuing genocide in Darfur is a reminder of how far human rights have traveled in the public consciousness in a few short decades. Tragically, it is also a reminder of how far there is to go in translating public concern into effective action. If the emerging norm of the responsibility to protect endangered populations fails to spur a sufficient response in Darfur, then the idea has no more utility than the paper on which it is printed. The instruments exist; sufficient government will, to date, does not. The lives of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have already been lost; tens of thousands more are in jeopardy. And so is a principle that once bore much promise but requires implementation in real time to make any difference."
Susan Rice has seen first hand in Rwanda the cost of genocide unanswered when nations equivocate and do nothing beyond words. She understands at a visceral level that response with force of arms must be quick, and decisive in halting incipient genocide and restoring order. No Pollyanna, Rice understands Thomas Hobbes' grim view on the human condition.
"And covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all."
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Susan Rice is pretty. Therefore I approve the choice. ;-D