Opinion

July 11, 2008

Negotiation – Not Strikes – Needed for Iran

By Lynn Kunkle and Lisa Schirch WASHINGTON ~ As concerns persist that Israel or the United States could attack Iran, – Read More...
July 11, 2008

Europeans Look to Obama to Restore US

By Bill Schneider “When Barack Obama comes to London, I am certain that 50,000 people will turn out to cheer – Read More...
July 4, 2008

Strengthening Extremists

By Nicholas D. Kristof GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ~ The yearlong siege of Gaza may soon end with the new – Read More...
July 4, 2008

The Zimbabwe of Memory, Eroded by a Deluge of Troubles

By Neely Tucker Zimbabwe, how it was before: The smell of millet beer, the smoke from cooking fires, Oliver Mtukudzi – Read More...
July 4, 2008

When Diplomacy Works

By Wendy R. Sherman This latest round of diplomatic dancing with North Korea should finally put to rest the hoariest – Read More...
June 20, 2008

Bali Road Map: Workable, Effectual, with Attainable Results

By Frances Seymour For The Bali Times BOGOR, West Java ~ Last December 10,000 people met in Bali to attend – Read More...
May 30, 2008

Cutting off Our Noses to Spite Our Faces: How the Rainforests of Indonesia, and the Dying-Out Orangutans, Can Be Saved. Today

By Joyce Major For The Bali Times “Balanced precariously on the edge of destruction, the Indonesian rainforest and the orangutans – Read More...
May 30, 2008

World Food Crisis Strains UN Resources

By Colum Lynch The Washington Post UNITED NATIONS ~ For four years, UN peacekeepers have protected Haiti’s fragile government from – Read More...
August 24, 2007

Headless Chickens

Before we all start running around like headless chickens on news this week of the first human fatalities of avian – Read More...
June 28, 2007

Let Sleeping Judges Lie

If the central government hopes for a more robust, clearer judiciary, it needs to start supporting the nation’s courts – – Read More...