by
Glenn Hurowitz
Think Progress,
February 2012 |
Article
The Obama administration has announced its support for the junta that ousted democratically elected Maldives president and climate hero Mohamed Nasheed in a military coup.
Even though President Nasheed was apparently forced to resign at gunpoint, the State Department has continued to address the coup-makers as the “legitimate government”... Read More »
by
Raymond Baker
Huffington Post,
February 2012 |
Article
Corruption and secrecy in the oil, gas and mining industries takes a serious toll on developing and emerging economies. It negatively affects human rights, governance, global development and security. A provision of the new Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation shines a light on the deals that oil, gas and mining companies make with foreign governments, however oil executives... Read More »
by
William D. Hartung
The Sacramento Bee,
February 2012 |
Article
On Feb. 13 the Obama administration will release the full details of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal. Advocates of higher military spending are already spreading cries of alarm... Read More »
by
Matthew Hoh, John Isaacs
The Hill,
February 2012 |
Article
Two lengthy and devastating wars separated by three decades.
One fought in the jungles of Vietnam and one in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan... Read More »
by
Matthew Hoh
Huffington Post,
February 2012 |
Article
In late December, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta assured Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) that the United States was "making undeniable progress" in its war in Afghanistan and that a congressionally mandated, independent assessment of the war was "not necessary." However, recent media reports of internal Department of Defense and Intelligence Community assessments of the war contradict, again, claims of progress... Read More »
