The Congo and Why Obama Should Repudiate Clinton Policies
March 20, 2013 18 min. read

by S.N. Sangmpam One item that dominated American politics after President Obama’s re-election was the opposition by Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham to Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., as Obama’s presumptive nominee for Secretary of State.  They opposed her on the ground that she misled the public about the attack […]

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Name changes, killing continues
December 28, 2012 6 min. read

It was Zaire then. As I sat along the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi,   I marveled at the moment. Baby hippos splashed playfully in the water as their adults looked carefully from across the way. The sun set with purples and yellows and pinks, in rays shooting up to the sky in sharp […]

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Climate Change = Security Threat
July 21, 2011 3 min. read

The UN Security Council met this week to consider whether or not climate change constituted a threat to international peace and security and, if so, what to do about it.  As Deutsche Welle puts it here, “What might appear self-evident to many took days of complicated discussions and negotiations…”  If droughts, heat waves, fires, ever-intensifying […]

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