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This is the only nonfiction work of note to focus on the overlooked region where California and Mexico blur together in a mutation of the American dream. It is one of the nation’s most productive farming areas but suffers perpetual poverty and 20 percent-plus unemployment, as well as intractable environmental problems. [more]
On Nov. 3, the House voted to shield Israel and Hamas from any accountability for their military actions in Gaza. The House passed H. Res. 867, a nonbinding resolution calling on the president to reject the United Nations’ Goldstone report. This 575-page report, written by a U.N. fact-finding commission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone and issued Sept. 15, found that Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during the December 2008 Gaza war. [more]
The Taliban who kept New York Times journalist David Rohde ’90 captive for more than seven months in Pakistan were generally antagonistic with him – except when it came to singing, the Pulitzer-prize winning author. [more]
All wars of choice are risky, and Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan is no exception. The President is banking on the idea that doing more for 18 months will make it possible to do less in the long run. [more]
Seton Hall Law Professor Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU are two of the leading members of the “Guantánamo Bar Association”—the group of private and military lawyers who have managed the defense of the dwindling number of prisoners at Gitmo. They have brought out The Guantánamo Lawyers, a collection of over one hundred personal narratives by lawyers involved in this high-profile matter. [more]
Tags: Afghanistan, Gaza, George W. Bush, guantanamo, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Taliban
Nick Ducote
Nick is an undergraduate at Louisiana Tech University studying political science and history.