Since coming to office ten months ago, Panetta’s boss, Barack Obama, has authorized as many aerial attacks by C.I.A.-operated drone bombers in Pakistan as George Bush did in his final three years. What does international law say about the death of civilians? [more]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a U.N.-drafted proposal to have uranium for a medical reactor enriched abroad. [more]
When President Barack Obama meets Japan’s new prime minister in Tokyo on Friday, he will face a government that appears uncertain about how to resolve the major issue complicating ties between the two allies. [more]
On Nov. 3, the House of Representatives voted to discredit a U.N. report that accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in the three-week war last January. The House reflexively backed Israel by a vote of 334-36, with 22 abstentions. [more]
Hundreds of miles from Baghdad, the United States and Iraq are making a major push to fight arms smuggling and infiltration from Iran in the run-up to national elections here in January. The Iran-Iraq border in Maysan Province is straddled by more than 150 miles of desert and marshland that the US and Iraqi militaries allege to be a vital support corridor for Iraqi Shiite militants with ties to Iran. [more]
Honduras sunk into further disarray after President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military-backed coup, said a US-brokered deal to end the nation’s four-month crisis had collapsed. [more]
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Nick Ducote
Nick is an undergraduate at Louisiana Tech University studying political science and history.