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A New War Footing Jonathan W. Emord
Category: World Watcher Published: November 2017
"[North Korea] functions in a thuggish, uncivilized manner. Its actions invite both a conventional and an unconventional response. Pres. Donald Trump can learn much from Winston Churchill, who faced a comparable threat from the Nazis as prime minister."
 
Arming Venezuelans J. Michael Waller
Category: World Watchers Published: November 2018
"The U.S. has a successful precedent for arming people oppressed by a regime that surrendered national sovereignty to Cuba and other powers."
 
Bloodletting in Africa Emily Halnon
Category: World Watcher Published: March 2020
". . . Problems are not caused by research, per se, but by how it is done: the coercion, dishonesty, and misunderstanding that characterized so many encounters past and present."
 
Containing Putin's Russia Ronald E. Powaski
Category: World Watcher Published: September 2017
Using the same rationale that Hitler used in occupying Czechoslovakia's Sudentenland in 1938--the alleged need to protect the country's German minority--Putin claimed the right to intervene in Ukraine & neighboring countries to protect ethnic Russians.
 
Give Peace a Chance--No Way Jeff Grabmeier
Category: World Watcher Published: November 2019
The belief that war is disappearing has lulled us into a false sense of security.
 
Justifying Genocide Jeff Grabmeier
Category: World Watcher Published: September 2018
Perpetrators of genocide say they are "good people," as a study examines testimony of defendants in Rwandan violence.
 
Mending Our Ways? Alisa Zomer
Category: World Watcher Published: March 2018
 
Obama Doctrine in Disarray Frank Vernuccio Jr.
Category: World Watcher Published: May 2016
"[The] lack of response to the obvious failure of the Administration's foreign and defense policies indicates either an inability to acknowledge a reality that differse from its ideology, or an adherance to a worldview that Americans find both dangerous…"
 
Overwhelmed by COVID-19 . . . And War Jason Straziuso
Category: Worldwatcher Published: May 2020
"The failure to plan and prepare for mass casualties risks people being buried in mass graves, with few records and little understanding of who died and where the bodies were taken," warns the International Committee of the Red Cross.
 
Problematic Plastic Gaelle Gourmelon
Category: World Watcher Published: July 2018
Approximately 10,000,000-20,000,000 tons of plastic end up in the oceans each year. An estimated 5.25 trillion plastic particles are floating in the word's oceans, resulting in $13,000,000,000 a year in losses from damage to marine ecosystems.
 
Wildfire Air Quality Is the Norm Elsewhere
News View Category: Worldwatcher Published: December 2019