New Oakland Institute report: Sri Lanka is an 'ethnocratic state', should be referred to Int'l Criminal Court (ICC) - US Politics Today
" The report is titled Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka."
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" The report is titled Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka."
Afghan security forces still need US help to stand on their own, watchdog warns March 16 U.S. service members secure the perimeter at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in support of Operation Resolute Support on March 17, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Joel Pfiester/Air Force) With less than two months before a deadline to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, local security forces there are unprepared to stand up on their own despite years of training and investment from foreign allies, a government watchdog warned lawmakers on Tuesday. “Achieving our counterterrorism reconstruction obj...
Saudi Arabia should end the blockade of Yemen and start talks with rebel factions
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Is Radicalizing Young Men Across the Middle East. The U.S. Needs a Counterinsurgency Strategy Time 2/11/2021 Saeid Golkar © Morteza Nikoubazl—NurPhoto via Getty Images An Iranian boy holds a flag with a portrait of the former Iranian commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani during a rally in Tehran to commemorate the 42nd Victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Feb. 10, 2021 Like his six predecessors as president, Joe Biden enters office with the challenge posed by Iran’s regime h...
Waging Peace Brainwashed to Violence As I was trying to wrap my head around the implications of the attack on the Capitol in preparation for writing for this week’s blog, my friend Kristin Christman sent me the piece below. Since the events of 9/11, Kristin has been working tirelessly, through scholarly historical, psychological and sociological research and deep personal reflection, to analyze both the roots of and alternatives to violence especially as applied to current US foreign policy. The shadow of the 2001 event has served as an incentive and goad for her as a thi...