U.S. Embassy contractors gone wild in nude photos

Update 2: America made these contractors – an argument in support of the contractors
How the actions of Wackenhut contractors be explained?
These guys are under immense psychological pressures. They are in a war zone where they find themselves in situations of considerably overwhelming and continuous physical and psychological stress for long periods of times – without breaks.
Compared to [...]

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Al Jazeera English – Asia-Pacific – Muslim states ’silent’ on Uighurs

Wanted in China, protected in the United States: Rebiya Kadeer speaks:
A leading Uighur rights activist has criticised Muslim-majority countries for not speaking out against decades of alleged repression and persecution from the Chinese government.
Speaking in Washington on Monday, Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who was jailed for years in China before being released into exile in [...]

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The “Lessons” of Robert S. McNamara | Stephen M. Walt

Excerpt of Stephen Walt’s opinion of the late Robert McNamara:
…McNamara may have been a gifted analyst and corporate executive, blessed with a lot of raw smarts, but he was also one of those people who could not imagine being wrong or resist the desire to tell the world what to do. Failure in Vietnam did [...]

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Photo Essay: Portraits of Instability | Foreign Policy

From a photo essay on Foreignpolicy.com that describes what they consider to be the 20 ‘failed states’ of 2009.
16. ETHIOPIA

Desperate thirst: Drought is one of many problems that continually afflicts the northern African country of Ethiopia. Lack of water not only kills crops, meaning starvation, but also causes violent conflicts over scarce vital resources. Inadequate [...]

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