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- July 23, 2010 | <a href="/users/minty064">Mintaro</a> <a href="/users/minty064">Oba</a>
Yesterday, The New York Times published “Pentagon Faces Political and Economic Pressures To Cut Budget.” Reactions on The New York Times’s Facebook post were positive, with one person saying “About time don’t cha think?” or “Do you mean to tell me, our exponential & bloated military... - July 12, 2010 | <a href="/users/minty064">Mintaro</a> <a href="/users/minty064">Oba</a>
In a recent Op-Ed in The Washington Post, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney lambasted President Obama for several foreign policy decisions and called the New-Start Treaty, which helps the United States reset relations with Russia and cooperate in reducing nuclear arms "Obama's Worst Foreign Policy Mistake." Romney went... - July 8, 2010 | <a href="/users/aarongoldstein">Aaron</a> <a href="/users/aarongoldstein">Goldstein</a>
For all of these positions with the Roosevelt Institute please email Aaron Goldstein at ag7551a@student.american.edu to apply and to ask questions, deadline is August 1, 2010. Treasurer: The Roosevelt Institute is looking for a student with prior experience in writing Student Activities/AUCC budgets, knowledge on the paperwork that needs... - June 26, 2010 | <a href="/users/byannantuono">Bryan</a> <a href="/users/byannantuono">Yannantuono</a>
Where was the public outcry when it was discovered that that the Gulf of Mexico has a 6000-7000 square mile "dead zone" caused by fertilizer runoff? People are (rightly) quick to blame BP for the oil rig catastrophe in the Gulf, but when it comes to the dead zone, in which we have some say (by choosing whether or not to buy food from... - June 17, 2010 | <a href="/users/jkcoleman72">Jessa</a> <a href="/users/jkcoleman72">Coleman</a>
So today on the agenda: Afghanistan. I've already discussed the issue with a few friends and of course the topic popped up on NPR this morning. Let's discuss those mineral deposits that, according to some, are gonna "change the face of the conflict in Afghanistan," or even "change the face of Afghanistan," itself.... - June 2, 2010 | <a href="/users/dfturner">Devin</a> <a href="/users/dfturner">Turner</a>
Debating the morality or the details of the Israeli raid on the humanitarian flotilla that was headed to Gaza to inevitably challenge the Israeli blockade is relatively unhelpful. As both sides of the conflict gear up their propaganda machine, it is important to instead focus on where the region should go from here, and what the longer term... - June 2, 2010 | <a href="/users/minty064">Mintaro</a> <a href="/users/minty064">Oba</a>
Today, Israel released the last of the Gaza flotilla activists held after Israeli forces opened fire. The facts are still in dispute, but understandably states, individuals, and leaders around the world have reached volcanic heights of emotion. Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the “international hypocrisy” surrounding the... - May 17, 2010 | <a href="/users/byannantuono">Bryan</a> <a href="/users/byannantuono">Yannantuono</a>
With a 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center set to be erected just two blocks from ground zero, many Americans are outraged. "What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Centre buildings that were brought down by an Islamic jihad attack?" "What I’m... - April 27, 2010 | <a href="/users/ryan-hunter">Ryan</a> <a href="/users/ryan-hunter">Hunter</a>
In an article that appeared in the New York Times on February 14, "Fearing Limits, States Weaken Gun Regulation", writer Ian Urbina recalls how President Obama's election sent a wave of hysteria through the community of gun rights advocates, who "sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition... - April 20, 2010 | <a href="/users/tonei">Tonei</a> <a href="/users/tonei">Glavinic</a>
Mass media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue or group of people. It works both overtly and subconsciously: deciding which issues are important, how to frame those issues, who to show as affected by them, and, increasingly, providing personal commentaries on...
