How Skinner Views Wikileaks and North Korea
The U.S. foreign policy currently faces two big challenges: the latest Wikileaks documents and the Korean crisis. Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Kiron K. Skinner (pictured above) is said to be…
Is Divided Government Good for America?
More than two in five Americans (43%) believe that it is good for the country to have a president and a majority in Congress belonging to different parties, a number…
Wikileaks Leaks Out Secret US Embassy Cables
By Rakesh Raman Wikileaks, a not-for-profit media organisation that releases classified information for public consumption, began on Sunday Nov. 28 publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables (communications). It is…
Football Field is New Battlefield for Afghanistan
The Dutch company GreenFields, a leading synthetic turf company, has completed the installation of a new football field at the future Olympic Centre in Kabul. As part of the FIFA…
Human Rights Outfit Welcomes Suu Kyi Release
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist organization Amnesty International has welcomed the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience, from house arrest in Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Suu…
Obama Ignored Outcries of Sikh Widows: Statement
By Rakesh Raman President and Michelle Obama visited India on an economic mission and despite outcries from human rights organizations the President did not address India’s terrible human rights record…