international relations

The worst kind of hypocrisy

In current affairs, international relations on 11 July 2009 with no comments

Why does a government going broke spend millions for a memorial service of someone they tried to prosecute for child molestation for years? Why does the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People raise money for an individual who actually spent a small fortune testing the boundaries of medical science in order to actually [...]

The Tribunal Investigations of the Hariri Murder: a UN cover-up? And what it says about journalism

In current affairs, international relations, journalism & media on 26 May 2009 with 3 comments

The bomb that killed Rafiq al-Hariri weighed more than 2,000 pounds and left a crater 30 feet wide. On Valentine’s Day 2005, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri and 21 others were killed and more than 200 wounded by the massive car bomb in Beirut. Eight months later, a report to the UN about Hariri’s assassination [...]