Drug War Blues
What kind of a man would stand up to the Republican mayor of New York, Rudolph Guliani, and tell him flat out that he is wrong? Tell him, “No, Rudy, just busting addicts doesn’t clean up the streets like you say…
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No Passage
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythAmerican officials and others say the United States learned vital lessons in El Salvador that policymakers are now applying in Colombia. The gist of this argument is that like in El Salvador, the United States support of the Colombia military will eventually…
Africa’s Inexplicable Horn
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythEthiopia’s former communist leader, Mengistu Haile Mariam, prolonged a famine in northern Ethiopia in the mid-1980s to dry out two Marxist insurgencies that were each deeply rooted there.
Expanding Globalization’s Agenda
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythOne poster carried by a young protester near the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington last Sunday showed many small fish coming together in the shape of a huge, collective fish to swallow a big one.
Al Gore and the Iraqi Democracy Question
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythHow carefully did Vice President Al Gore choose his words last month when he became the first Clinton administration official to apply the “d-word” to Iraq? In a one-page, Feb. 8 letter to Iraqi exiles based in London, Gore became the first high-level U.S. official ever to publicly promise to promote “democracy in Iraq.” Nothing […]
France’s Feeble Demand
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythOne trait that France and the United States have in common is that each nation acts like it has moral authority to lead the world.
The opportunity for global leadership rests largely on other factors…
Leader of the Pack
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythIrrespective of how things might look after the protests against the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle turned unexpectedly fierce right before the talks themselves suddenly collapsed, a consensus has already emerged in the presidential debate…