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 We proudly present a link to the Los Angeles Times’ article from 1993 about Diego Arria’s exceptional leadership at the United Nations during the Bosnian genocide. The beginning of the 90’s saw emergence of many diplomatic leaders who worked around the clock to solve urgent international conflicts (the Bosnian genocide being one of them). Among those extraordinary leaders were Diego Arria from Venezuela, Madeleine Albright from the U.S. or Muhamed Sacirbey from Bosnia. Sometimes diplomats like Arria or Sacirbey (both are contributors to this website) paid high personal prices for their activism at the UN and willingness to say loudly what other diplomats feared to say. After relentlessly fighting to save lives of the genocide victims, Arria was eventually recalled as a Venezuelan Ambassador but kept working at the UN as the Assistant Secretary General. While Sacirbey was erroneously accused of alleged crimes that he never committed. Read More »
 Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings?
During World War II, German cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer actively conspired against Hitler to resist the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Bonhoeffer spent years subverting Nazi policy at the highest level and was even involved in the plot to kill Hitler. When Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor, was caught by Nazi officials, he was first held in military detention, then in a Gestapo prison, then at Buchenwald concentration camp, and finally at Flossenbürg concentration camp. As allied forces approached Flossenbürg in 1945, the SS received orders to hang Bonhoeffer. Before he died, he explained his resistance to the Nazi regime: “If I see a madman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try and wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.” In Bonhoeffer’s mind those in a position to act have a responsibility to protect. Read More »
 Who is real Mitt Romney? Is he trully a conservative or a leftist liberal? What does his birth certificate say? How many companies did he destroy if any? How many people did he fire in his business career? Is his wife suffering from multiple sclerosis? This is what a purported opposition file investigates in reference to Mitt Romney. The file was allegedly prepared by John McCain 2008 Campaign and now surfaced again. Here is a link. Below are some of Romney’s biographical highlights.
BIOGRAPHY AND TIMELINE
BRIEF OVERVIEW
Full Name: Willard Mitt Romney
Born: March 12, 1947, Detroit, Michigan
Family: Wife Ann (married 37 years); five sons, ten grandchildren
Residences: 171 Marsh Street
Belmont, MA 02478
2005 assessed value: $3.162 million Read More »
Mitt Romney: “Corporations are people, my friends!” That’s what Mitt said about his experience at Bain Capital before he tore some companies apart. Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Super PAC just released a new ad summarizing Mitt’s performance at Bain. Well, Mr. Romney, what do you have to say for yourself?
 The New York Times wrote a story about Hugo Chavez’s decision to nominate as his new defense minister “Gen. Henry Rangel Silva, a longtime military ally who has been accused by the United States of links to drug traffickers and by opposition politicians in Venezuela of being hostile to the democratic process.” The New York Times quotes Mr. Arria saying: “On Friday, Diego Arria, an opposition politician, issued Twitter posts criticizing the appointment of General Rangel, citing the drug trafficking allegations and his remarks about the coming election. The appointment “is an act of profound embarrassment for the Armed Forces and a threat to all of us,” wrote Mr. Arria, who is seeking the opposition presidential nomination but is not considered a front runner.” Read entire story here
 Evangelical Christian right is coalescing around Rick Santorum presumably due to his solid-right “social values” but also let’s kick some ass foreign policy positions. He is anti-gay and anti-choice. He stated he is in favor of profiling Muslims at the airline ticket counter. He is prepared to bomb Iran nuclear facilities, does not endorse global environmental agreements and gives Israel’s pro-settlement politicians a carte blanche.
Bob Vander Platts, Head of the Evangelical-right “Family Leader” defined his support for Santorum on yesterday’s (December 30, 2011) National Public Radio (NPR): “Well, first of all, we’re very sold on Rick Santorum with his core values, his convictions. We believe we can trust him. We believe he’s a man of integrity. And even people who disagree with him about his conclusions on issues, they don’t find him disagreeable. We also believe he has a great vision for this country. He was kind of Tea Party before Tea Party was cool.” Read More »
Here are some of the funniest tweets about Kim Jong Il’s death. Poor bastard died last weekend and left his plumpy son, Kim Jong Un, to take over the country in which tens of thousands of people are starving to death every year. Some actors and actresses dressed in clothes from Armani were lamenting in the public about Kim’s death. You serious dudes?
 Barack Obama @ThePresObama
Kim Jong Il is dead but we still have to take care of Kourtney Jong Il and Khloe Jong Il before we can rejoice.
 Ruth Buzzi @Ruth_A_Buzzi
Gov. Rick Perry today mentioned “Kim Jong the Second” speaking of Kim Jong Il (Gov., that’s I-L, pronounced “ill”). Oh, Ricky, you so funny!
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 A legacy of Swedish businessman and inventor Alfred Nobel, the nobility of its aim, to reward those who strive for peace, is seldom questioned, given that the answer seems evident. Of course we should choose peace over war, life over death. But let’s take the inquiry further: What kind of peace is desirable, and how do we achieve it?
The misuse of the word “peace” in foreign policy has often made it an empty slogan used for political purposes. “Peace for our time” was the justification in 1930s Europe to appease and bolster a wicked regime that plunged the world into the bloodiest war in history. Peace can be found in cemeteries filled with the dead, and in dungeons crammed with political prisoners. While peace is, in fact, the ultimateend, a peace prompted by fear is illusory; it is weak, and it is momentary. Read More »
 General Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda for more than 25 years. Since taking power in a 1986 military coup, he has stacked this Central African country’s voting commission with his henchmen and stolen its elections. Having abolished presidential term limits in 2005 in a sham referendum, he plans to rule for life, and is grooming his son for succession.
Museveni has used the state treasury to build a climate of fear through a security apparatus that persecutes dissidents and critics with imprisonment, torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings. He has reduced the country’s parliament to a rubber-stamp body, censored the nation’s media, and militarized its civil institutions. Read More »
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