Yet, perhaps the most counter-productive measures in creating a functional, sustained society is the sheer lack of self-determination forced upon the civilians. With attacks from insurgent groups coupled with U.S. attacks that cause civilian deaths, the Afghan people have little to no recourse for their situation. […]
For a university student or professor in the United States, it can be difficult to comprehend or sympathize with the student reactions. Higher education costs have skyrocketed in the past ten years, resulting in more student loans and a slump in enrollment from underprivileged students. […]
It’s not the “Arab strongmen” pushing around the United States. Actually the “Arab strongmen” are a direct product of American intervention in the region, an intervention that has done much more to thwart democracy than to help it flourish. […]
The expansion of Israeli settlements into East Jerusalem, which is seen by Palestinians as their future capital, does nothing but exacerbate tensions between the two states. […]
To remain objective, our news reporting has been reduced to nothing more than presenting competing viewpoints and claims without any guidance by journalists to help people sift through all the information to come up with an in-depth understanding of the issues. […]
In six years, the fallout from the battle of Fallujah has surpassed the fallout from the attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. With cancer, infant mortality, and birth defect rates spiking, there is a full-scale health crisis. Not that you'll hear about it from the Western media. […]
If we are going to talk about “the Muslim problem,” fine, but the facts are clear and unambiguous, Muslims constitute the single most important ally in American affairs when it comes to oil or terrorism. Perhaps the current undoing of this alliance is facilitating America’s decline: It certainly has cost us billions in the so-called “War on Terror” and affec […]
While the issue of DADT and private security contracting may initially seem disconnected, their relationship speaks volumes about matters of intent and how our government chooses to wage war. The Pentagon prefers profit-driven contractors to homosexuals who voluntary choose to serve our country. There is no oversight for the actions of the contractors, while […]
The energies of the Indian government and billions of dollars that India spent towards the Commonwealth Games should have been spent tackling a much more serious problem, India’s people. […]