International Herald Tribune/Daily Star Egypt 08/12/2007 By Michael Shank and Samatalis Haille Prominent Somali intellectuals and parliamentarians from sub-clans once constituting the core of the defeated Islamic Courts Union claim that old rivals are dominating the government and unwilling to share power. Oddly, the international community tolerates this refusal and […]
News International 08/06/2007 By Michael Shank United States Presidential Candidate and Senator Barack Obama’s speech on August 1, 2007 at the Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington D.C., confirmed what many feared: the Democrats will continue, unabated, a war on terror that bears exact resemblance to the one waged […]
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE OPERATIONS Vol. 3, No. 1, July-Aug 07 By Michael Shank United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ recent commentary that “things are slowly, cautiously headed in the right direction” in Afghanistan convinced very few. General Dan McNeill, commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, seconded the […]
News International 06/30/2007 By Michael Shank A disconcerting trend is making its rounds among democratic nations. Countries are closing their doors to one of democracy’s key tenets, that of free speech. The United States paved the way in Iraq by closing newspapers that failed to report favourably. Now US allies […]
Richmond Times-Dispatch 06/28/2007 By Michael Shank Regardless of whether or not one believes in climate change, no American wants the United States to be the world’s top greenhouse-gas emitter. Thus, Americans were thankful that China was queuing up to surpass the U.S. as the globe’s No. 1 producer of carbon […]
International Herald Tribune/Daily Star Egypt 06/26/2007 By Michael Shank and Khadija Ali Somalia’s decision to delay yet again the National Reconciliation Congress comes as no surprise. The Transitional Federal Government’s (TFG) latest attempt at reconciliation was foiled long before the first session of congress began. While many fingers point to […]
Foreign Policy in Focus 06/14/2007 Conducted by Michael Shank James Moran (D-VA) has been in the House of Representatives since 1991. In 2002, he was one of 133 House members to vote against authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Most recently, he has proposed holding hearings in July on closing the […]
Foreign Policy in Focus 06/02/2007 Conducted by Michael Shank Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) is a member of the House financial and foreign affairs committees. He is also co-chair of the House Dialogue Caucus. Recently he published an op-ed in The Hill on the low U.S. ranking in the Global Peace […]
International Herald Tribune/Daily Star Egypt 05/25/2007 Conducted by Michael Shank Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is now in her ninth term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia. Named by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she came to Congress as a […]
Foreign Policy in Focus 05/22/2007 Conducted by Michael Shank Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On April 26, Michael Shank interviewed him about relations between India and Pakistan. This is the second part of a two-part interview. The first part, on the Iraq War, the […]