Sidney Hillman Foundation Names Winners of 2019 Prizes for Journalism in Service of the Common Good Reuters, NBC News and MSNBC, ProPublica Receive Honors; Adam Serwer to receive Opinion & Analysis Prize NEW YORK -— The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday winners of the...
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Chapter Three: War, Peace, Networks In which The Seventh Sense reaches towards the questions of war and peace and power that will flavor our lives, like it or not. 1. One afternoon in the fall of 2009 I received an unexpected call from the Pentagon. The US was, then, nearly a...
violence, like the scale of the industry that produced it, defied anything even the wisest minds could foresee. Eventually the entire world was pulled into the fire. “In the autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes,” the economist John Maynard K...
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians give the authorities wide discretion in applying them to regime opponents. Such measures are typically paired with a court system that uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex-...
the Middle East and South Asia is increased political resistance -- and outright opposition -- from the countries in the region. That resistance is likely to come from the new regimes emerging from the Arab uprisings, as well as a number of Gulf monarchies. Indeed, the political...
21 biggest mistake of his presidency was doing nothing to prevent genocide in Rwanda. Hillary’s personal connection to Sarkozy helped cement the coalition. In 2010, Sarkozy had gallantly steadied her after a shoe had come off her foot as she climbed the stone steps of the Elysé...
My new posting came not just as momentum was building toward an invasion. It followed on the heels of a major new crisis in our peace with Egypt. Only weeks before I gave up my Sinai command, President Anwar Sadat was shot and killed by an extremist Muslim officer at the annual C...
Freedom House through Russian television stations. On a daily basis, they are exposed to propagandistic programs in which the EU is demonized, NATO is treated as an aggressor, the democracies on Russia's borders are presented as enemies, and the annexation of Crimea is hailed as...
I see that every day. I’m a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs, I went to Harvard Business School, I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it’s a very, very tough environment. And...
Foreign Policy Don't be too sure there won't be another U.S. war in the Middle East Richard L. Russell February 5, 2013 -- Shortly before he left office in Feb. 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told West Point cadets that "in my opinion, any future defense secretary who ad...
example, invading another country is not aggressive, but designed as a pre-emptive strike to protect group interests. Moral disengagement enables behaviors that are either immoral, illegal, or counter to deeply rooted intuitive prohibitions against harming others. It is a proces...
Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation.” In an interview, Bamford said, “What the Joint Chiefs indicated in their plan...
AIPAC SPEECH 2013 – MINISTER OF DEFENSE - EHUD BARAK • Thank you for such a warm welcome. • What an indescribable feeling to be surrounded by so many true friends in the capital of the world's greatest democracy. • Members of the Administra...
20 warrant and the PRISM slides, few of the other documents that Snowden had given Poitras and Greenwald for publication had little to do with either domestic surveillance or the infringements on the privacy of Americans. By the Lawfare Institute’s count, 32 of Snowden’s leaks t...
11/5/2015 Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News times in your history been deserted. All Americans could take pride in President Clinton's splendid eulogy; in the uniqueness of America's compassion and friendship that extended beyon...