Global Intifada

As the global economy undergoes perhaps the greatest market correction in modern history, rising prices will only increase political instability. As American power recedes due its own economic woes and its inability to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, its grip on the international system will recede. It will increasingly be forced to pack up its […]

Unfortunately, the talk of a return to the Cold War has become quite frequent among political analysts these days due to American and Russian competition in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The term is misleading because, unlike the Cold War which was essentially characterized by the bipolar nature of international relations, the present conflict is […]

Women in the US  military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by a terrorist. (CNN, PBS has a video on the story here)
If this is how the US military treats its own women, who have rights and are from the same country, its not hard to imagine what […]

Here’s a rough draft of something I’ve been working on. Its incomplete and I have to go back and insert further evidence and proper citation and what not.
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Introduction: Three Weak Theories of American State Action
There are three conventional methodologies of attempting to understand how America behaves as a state: (1) to examine and take […]

Here are the relevant excerpts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.
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Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new […]

A protest in Afghanistan against the shooting of the Qur’an in Iraq turned deadly today when two civilians and a Lithuanian soldier were killed. (Source: CNN) The incident occurred at the Chaghcharan Airfield in Ghor province. The civilians were fired upon by the Afghan National Police after they began throwing rocks and setting tents on […]

The U.S. government and China frequently condemn one another for human rights abuses. The 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices  was issued in March 2008 by the U.S. Department of State described China’s human rights record as being “poor” and, as an example, listed the denial of religious freedon in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous […]