‘News’ Archives
World Affairs Daily, March 10
China's Nervous Neighbors Play the America Card By Richard Weitz China's increasing military power and aggressiveness has raised alarms in Southeast Asia. Richard Weitz explains how the region, together with the US, has begun to recalculate, adjust, and realign policies and relationships to counter China's increasingly menacing posture. Read More The Arms Trade, Dictators, and the Innocent Dead Michael Zantovsky Blog As Qaddafi murders his subjects, the moral ... Full Story
BLM to Webcast Meeting of Wild Horse and Burro
BLM to Webcast Two-day Meeting in Phoenix of Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the March 10-11 meeting of the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board in Phoenix will be accessible as a Webcast on the Internet for anyone interested in observing the meeting but unable to attend in person. The live meeting Webcast will be available at: http://blm.gov/webcast on Thursday, March 10, from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. Mountain Standard Time (3 p. m. to 7 p. ... Full Story
World Affairs: March 8, 2011
Save Libya by Joshua Muravchik From Spain to Poland to Bosnia to Rwanda, the twentieth century was marked by disgraceful betrayals on the part of the West. Libya could be the first such episode of the new century unless the US acts now to prevent Benghazi from becoming the new Guernica, writes Joshua Muravchik. Read More Steve Coll: Dead Wrong on the Taliban by Ann Marlowe The New Yorker's Steve Coll is dead wrong to advocate negotiating with the Taliban -- at least ... Full Story
Top Consumer Complaints in Colorado
Attorney General unveils top 2010 consumer complaints During the 2010 calendar year, Colorado consumers filed 6,462 complaints with the Office of the Attorney General — a nearly 37 percent increase over 2009’s total of 4,723 complaints and a 117 percent increase over 2008’s total of 2,969 complaints.
Operation Honor Guard
Operation Honor Guard Established by SupportOurTroops.Org to Protect Military Funerals Against Protestors SupportOurTroops.Org Upholds the Honor and Dignity of Fallen Soldiers and Families at Military Funerals Daytona Beach, FL – This past Tuesday, March 2, 2011, the Supreme Court in Snyder v. Phelps, et al, 562 U.S. ___ (2011), ruled that the First Amendment protects the right of ne’er-do-wells to visibly and audibly protest in the face of family ... Full Story
World News-Iraq and Afghanistan
Links to Articles about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars US air force members shot dead at Frankfurt airport Afghanistan: Children Killed in US Attack, Hamid Karzai Says Petraeus Apologizes After Gunships Kill 9 Afghan Children As of Tuesday, day 3419 of the war in Afghanistan and day 2873 of ... Bomb kills nine civilians in Afghanistan No Other Way Out Just Foreign Policy: Iraq Deaths
Stories from Libya, Tuesday March 1
The Washington Post In Libya, an unlikely hero of a youth-led revolution by Leila Fadel Washington Post Foreign Service BENGHAZI, LIBYA - Mehdi Mohammed Zeyo was the most unlikely of revolutionary heroes. The bespectacled 49-year-old worked in the supplies department of a state-owned oil company. He was a diabetic with two teenage daughters. The Guardian, UK Libya is united in popular revolution – please don't intervene by Muhammad min Libya "Kiss my mum goodbye for me, and ... Full Story
Lybia in the news
The New York Times The Opinion Pages Unfit for Democracy? By Nicholas D Kristof I don’t think so. Moreover, this line of thinking seems to me insulting to the unfree world. In Egypt and Bahrain in recent weeks, I’ve been humbled by the lionhearted men and women I’ve seen defying tear gas or bullets for freedom that we take for granted. How can we say that these people are unready for a democracy that they are prepared to die for? Associated Press Clinton: US ... Full Story
We saw the Arab revolutions coming. Why didn’t
The following is an editorial from Al Jazeera whose streaming content is available on the web at http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/. Al Jazeera, literally, "The Island," is an international news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Initially launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel with the same name, Al Jazeera has since expanded into a network with several outlets, including the Internet and specialty TV channels in multiple languages. Al Jazeera is ... Full Story
Study Projects Health Reform will Benefit
Study Projects Health Reform Will Slow Cost Increases, Benefit Colorado's Economy Denver, CO – A new issue brief from The Colorado Trust sheds light on what the budgetary impacts of federal health care reform may be on Colorado families, businesses and the state. The Economic Impact of Health Reform in Colorado highlights findings from an in-depth study that assessed the effects of health care reform on the Colorado economy. Because the study began prior to the passage of federal health ... Full Story
