BLOG… Post #39 – What Works? Microfinance: Financing Dignity 11 Aug 201427 Feb 2017 Back in the 1970s, Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh had a brilliant idea. He would found a bank to provide seed money to poor people who otherwise would have no way…
BLOG… Post #38 – Smoke and Mirrors in Gaza 4 Aug 201427 Feb 2017 One of the cardinal lessons of international conflict resolution is that two warring parties will not be interested in a peaceful settlement if they believe continuing to fight is worth…
BLOG… Post #37 – War’s Other Casualties: The Situation in Gaza and the Global Refugee Crisis 28 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 I ended a recent post by asking when someone would step forward to bring about a cease-fire. Well, John Kerry eventually answered the call. But by the time he left…
BLOG… Post #36 – What Works? Person- and Planet-centered Development 22 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 The usual script for international development is the provision of aid—mostly in loans, occasionally in outright grants—by a “developed” country or international institution to an “underdeveloped” one. The money goes…
BLOG… Post #35 – Mr. Xi Goes to Seoul 17 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 China and Korea watchers jumped to attention when it was announced that Xi Jinping would visit South Korea from July 3-4, rather than visit North Korea first. Although the trip…
BLOG… Post #34 – The Madness in Gaza 13 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 War never achieves political goals, but just destroys the people,” he said. “War is the language of the ignorant, and it is fought by the ignorant.” The speaker was an…
BLOG… Post #33 – The Nuclear Danger and the Case for Nuclear Abolition (Part Two) 8 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 So far as I know, every post-World War II US president has come to realize the awesome responsibility that accompanies presiding over a massive nuclear-weapon arsenal. And every one of…
BLOG… Post #32 – The Nuclear Danger, or Why We Should Still Worry about the Bomb (Part One) 2 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 When is the last time you gave serious thought to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons? Probably not since those awful years under Ronald Reagan, when it seemed we were…
BLOG… Post #31 – What Works? The Courage to Blow the Whistle 26 Jun 201427 Feb 2017 American heroes come in many forms, and historically, one of them is acting selflessly in the public interest and in defiance of established authority. Daniel Ellsberg did just that in…
BLOG… Post #30 – Their War, Our War 21 Jun 201427 Feb 2017 In one of his last public statements on the war in Vietnam, a televised interview on September 2, 1963, President Kennedy said that in the end the South Vietnamese government…
BLOG… Post #29 – Obstacle Course: Engaging Iran 19 Jun 201427 Feb 2017 If the ongoing negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program fail to result in a comprehensive agreement by the July 20 deadline—an interim deal has been in place since January—it…
BLOG… Post #28 – What Works? Saving Young Lives 17 Jun 201427 Feb 2017 While living in Tokyo back in 2001, my attention was captivated by a US public television program on a cardiovascular surgeon in Phoenix who was making annual trips to Sri…
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