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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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February 14, 2014
Cuba
Push Polls and Cuba
You can’t always get what you want, the Rolling Stones once told us. But you can, actually, in a push poll: a poll designed to elicit a certain result and then advertised as achieving that result. T…
August 20, 2011
Iran
Our Iran Hostages Get Eight Years
The two American hostages in Iran, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, have been sentenced to eight years in prison. They have the right to appeal in the coming weeks and presumably will do so, which provid…
July 27, 2011
Cuba
Key Days in Our Hostage Crises
Decisions will be coming in the next few days in the cases of our hostages in Cuba and in Iran. In Cuba, the “Supreme Peoples Court” heard the appeal of Alan Gross last Friday and should be announci…
August 21, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ebola “a Complete Disaster”
This is the conclusion of Dr. Joanne Liu, MD, president of Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres-MSF). Her interview in the New York Times is a compelling must-read for those watching Ebo…
March 13, 2011
Iran
Our Hostage Crises, Continued
There is news today of both our hostage crises. A Cuban “court” has sentenced USAID contractor Alan Gross to 15 years in prison for trying to help the tiny Cuban Jewish community connect via interne…