Infallible Nation?
Why would Eritrea keep secret something that seemed to be in their national interest to publicize? One reason is that their leaders were too proud to admit that some of their own men including officers had been killed.
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Colombia Briefing: Bad Press
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythThis story became of the evidence that led the State Department to designate Carlos Castano and his paramilitary group known by its acronym in Spanish as the AUC, as a terrorist organization over a year later, in 2002.
Drug War Blues
/in The SAIS Review/by Frank SmythBoth the PBS series and the NPR panel also present a number of former American drug war veterans who have since changed their own views who said that U.S. efforts in the “war on drugs” are falling short.
No Passage
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythThe lesson of El Salvador was that the guerrillas could not be wiped out, and that in the end the United States needed to pressure America’s own allies in the Salvadoran military to reach a peace settlement.
Africa’s Inexplicable Horn
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythLike elsewhere in Africa, Western efforts on the African Horn come too little too late. Even if the U.N. security council were to now impose an arms embargo, it could only help lessen the intensity of the next round of fighting
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 SmythThen-Vice President Al Gore was the first high-level U.S. official ever to publicly promise to promote “democracy in Iraq.” Nothing would be more revolutionary for a place that had been long dominated by a small minority.