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AfPak: Corruption and Graft
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) —
Authority: 144
Simon Tisdall argues corruption is a larger and more difficult problem than most people realize. He cites Lorenzo Delesgues of Integrity Watch who observes that some USAID programs lose up to 90 cents on the dollar to corruption and fraud. Juan Cole relays several articles from Afghanistan translated by the ...18 hours ago -
The Global Warming Shakedown
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 750
By Daniel J. Mitchell Pat Michaels and others are working heroically to save America from global central planning for purposes of combatting global warming (or climate change, or whatever they’re calling it now). But let’s also be thankful this holiday season for our Founding Fathers, who wisely created a system ...22 hours ago -
Lessons from Americas Other Counterinsurgency
Foreign Policy —
Authority: 726
The United States and Colombia have been testing out COIN strategies for years. But the major lesson for Afghanistan is a tough one: there are no clean answers in messy wars.2 days ago -
Water Projects Emphasized in $7.5 Billion-U.S. Aid Package to Pakistan
Circle of Blue | WaterNews —
Authority: 518
Almost half of the funds for Pakistan will be spent on irrigation and water infrastructure projects, report states. Improved irrigation systems and water infrastructure projects are primary goals for the U.S. aid package to Pakistan, according to a U.S. State Department report released yesterday. The Pakistan ...2 days ago -
Exclusive: New details on Obamas $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan
The Cable —
Authority: 705
The administration sent Congress its first mandated reporton Pakistan strategy yesterday, part of the terms of the Kerry-LugarPakistan aid bill . The document isnt public, but a copy was obtained by The Cable , and it shows in new detailhow the Obama team is thinking about Pakistan and how it intends to ...2 days ago -
The Copenhagen Shakedown – WSJ.com
Eastaustinvoice's Weblog —
Authority: 109
The Copenhagen Shakedown – WSJ.com . The U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen was supposed to be the moment when the world came together to save us from an excess of carbon dioxide. Like all such confabs, it’s coming down instead to cold, hard cash. On Monday, the so-called G-77—in effect, the Third ...2 days ago -
It is time to reform the U.S. Foreign Assistance bureaucracy
Thoughts About K4D —
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Source: "What’s the Story on Militarization?" Ron Capps, Monday Developments via FrontLines, November 2009. Obviously the objectives of development agencies, diplomats and the military are different. Experts in social and economic development have knowledge and skills that are generally not found either in the State ...3 days ago -
Afghanistan: Delayed Troop Deployment
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) —
Authority: 144
The Christian Science Monitor reports that all 30,000 troops of the Afghan surge will not finish deploying until November, several months after the initially announced timeline. President Obama is expected to conduct an evaluation of the new Afghan strategy that December, leaving only a month for the ...3 days ago -
Will There Always Be a Pakistan?
Foreign Policy —
Authority: 726
Fissures within the military could tear not just the army but the entire country apart. Its coming sooner than you think.3 days ago -
Some NGOs Implicated (Again) In Supporting Terror Organizations
War News Updates —
Authority: 161
Daniel Sierra Martinez, Nelly Avila Moreno and Nicolas Montoya, former members of FARC, the Colombian terrorist group. Getty Images The FARC And The Peace Community -- Wall Street Journal In Colombia, a former guerrilla commander says that in "peace communities" controlled by NGOs, the population was ...4 days ago -
Secretary Clinton: Major Human Rights Speech at Georgetown
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) —
Authority: 144
Secretary Clinton delivered an important address ( PDF transcript) on the Obama administration’s approach to human rights today at Georgetown University. Reinforcing the message of President Obama ’s Nobel speech, Clinton affirmed “the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not only the ...4 days ago -
Nigerian Anti-Corruption Activists Demand: Let the Sun Shine in
God's Politics Blog —
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Part 2 of an interview with David Ugolor, head of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice . [ In part I , African Network for Environment and Economic Justice executive director described how Halliburton poured more than 180 million dollars into bribing…4 days ago -
How We Invaded Afghanistan
Foreign Policy —
Authority: 726
Thirty years ago this month, Soviet airborne troops parachuted into Kabul and began a fateful occupation that became Mikhail Gorbachev’s Vietnam. Here’s the inside story of how it happened, as told by the KGB general who planned it.4 days ago -
Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 136
A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...5 days ago -
POMED Notes: “Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities”
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) —
Authority: 144
The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations hosted a panel discussion on the current political, economic, and security situation in Yemen. The panel participants included Ambassador Barbara Bodine of Princeton University, Dr. Christopher Boucek of the Carnegie Middle East Program, Gregory Johnsen of Princeton ...5 days ago -
POMED Event: U.S. Military Assistance: Obstacle or Opportunity for Reform?
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) —
Authority: 144
POMED and the Heinrich Boll Foundation hosted a panel discussion to discuss the role of U.S. military assistance in America’s attempt to maintain strategic interests without undermining democracy promotion and human rights. The event was the third in a series examining U.S. credibility on human rights and featured ...5 days ago -
POMED Notes: “Future of US-Egypt Relations: A View from the Next Generation”
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) —
Authority: 144
The Hollings Center, in coordination with the Woodrow Wilson Center, hosted a panel to present findings from a conference hosted over the summer by the Hollings Center and Egypt’s International Economic Forum in Istanbul that convened a select group of 25 Egyptians and Americans from their late 20s to early 40s ...5 days ago -
Pay up, Britons: £1.5 Billion to the Third World for “Climate Change”
The British National Party —
Authority: 595
Exactly as the British National Party predicted would happen, taxpayers have coughed up a healthy £1.5 billion which is to be given to the Third World to “stop carbon emissions and protect themselves against climate change.” The BNP has maintained all along that the facts behind climate change are still far too ...5 days ago -
U.N. Experts Get Threats in Inquiry Into Somalia
NYT > Theater —
Authority: 900
Businessmen may be funneling aid to terrorist groups, and members of a panel investigating this possibility have received death threats.6 days ago -
The graph above shows some of data mentioned here broken down by...
ryancbriggs.net —
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The graph above shows some of data mentioned here broken down by year. As I mentioned the last time I used these stats, articles tagged “Africa” are on the continent and do not include articles on individual countries within Africa. If you are comparing this graph to the one on Somalia keep in mind that the ...1 week ago
