by CHARLES KURZMAN for *KURZMAN.EDU (PERSONAL WEB SITE) on APRIL 26, 2013: Federal funding for international education has never been so poor. This year’s 5% percent sequestration, on top of a 47% cut in 2011, has brought the Department of Education’s National Resource Centers to their lowest level of support since the program was established [...]
by DAVID SCHANZER for THE HUFFINGTON POST on MAY 8, 2013: The Department of Defense has requested $170 million to upgrade the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in next year’s budget, but no amount of money will repair the government’s irrational terrorism detention policy that is collapsing even more quickly than the dilapidated facility in which [...]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 16, 2013: President Barack Obama has condemned the bombings at the Boston marathon– that left three people dead and more than 100 injured yesterday– as a “terrorist act,” but it’s not yet known who carried out the attack and why. While various media have reported that a [...]
by OMID SAFI for RELIGION NEWS SERVICE on APRIL 9, 2013: President Obama’s visit to Israel reaffirmed the close political bond between America and Israel, and even affirmed the right of Israel to exist as a “Jewish nation” — whatever that means to the non-Jewish indigenous population of the region, i.e., the Palestinian people. How did [...]
Peter Feaver: Syria Weapons News May Prompt Change to White House Policy
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 25, 2013: According to an assessment signed by White House director of the office of legislative affairs Miguel Rodriguez, which was sent to lawmakers earlier Thursday (April 25) ”Our intelligence community does assess, with varying degrees of confidence, that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small [...]
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