Foreign Policy

Foreign Aid Surge: A New Era of Responsibility to Fight HIV/AIDS in Africa or Bush's Broken Promise?

By: Aaron Sussman
Foreign Policy

4/13/07

Despite the Bush administration’s admirable goal of increasing foreign aid to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, its efforts are undermined by barring organizations receiving aid from reaching out to sex workers – a strategy that experts say would  help save lives.  The result is a broken promise in Africa and a threat to the First Amendment in the United States.

Violence and Impunity in the Americas

By: Kevin Young
Foreign Policy

2/12/07

The United States has repeatedly supported corrupt dictatorships in Latin America in an effort to further its own goals.  We must fight for change in this practice and demand an end to impunity for war criminals in the Americas.

Toxic Injustice, Part 1: What Was Done

By: Aaron Sussman
Foreign Policy

1/14/07

Of the many atrocities and crimes committed by the United States in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the military’s use of Agent Orange has left the most destructive legacy, resulting in the ongoing suffering of Vietnamese citizens and U.S. veterans.  This is what was done.

Reader Responses to Toxic Injustice  

Toxic Injustice, Part 2: What Must Be Done

By: Aaron Sussman
Foreign Policy

1/14/07

Of the many atrocities and crimes committed by the United States in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the military’s use of Agent Orange has left the most destructive legacy, resulting in the ongoing suffering of both Vietnamese citizens and U.S. veterans, for whom there has been little justice or reconciliation.  This is what must be done.

Reader Responses to Toxic Injustice  

A Life-Long Supply of Genocide

By: Thomas Coen
Foreign Policy

11/17/06

The conflict in the Darfur region of Western Sudan, deemed genocide by the U.S. government over two years ago, is yet another example of the emptiness of the phrase “never again.”

Somalia: Bush’s Latest National Security Failure

The failed state of Somalia can be added to the innumerable causalities produced in the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Bush’s Democracy Doctrine

According to our President, only by continuing an unending war against an amorphous enemy can we achieve peace. Only by authorizing the government to examine your library records, phone records, and bank records without a warrant or judicial oversight, can we be free. And only by not knowing about these dubious, if not illegal, government intrusions do we as a society have strength.