This Week in OtherWords: May 22, 2013
Martha Burk weighs in on the military’s lackluster efforts to stop sexual assaults within the ranks.
Will the Jordanian Parliament Expel the Israeli Ambassador from Amman?
A resolution to that end may be just sound and fury.
The Hashimoto Controversy and Japan’s Failure to Come to Terms with its Past
The rise of Japan’s reactionary right suggests that the country has yet to come to terms with its actions in World War II.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (5/22)
From austerity to Al Nusra.
The Jig Is Up in Guatemala
Guatemala’s genocide trial has lifted the curtain on the country’s bloody past.
“Useful Enemies”: U.S. Admitted Not Just Nazis After WWII, But Their Sadistic Collaborators
Why did the United States feel the need to admit Baltic and Eastern Europeans who at times exceeded the Nazis in brutality?
TRIPping Up Least Developed Countries on Medicines, Green Tech, and Textbooks?
The World Trade Organization struggles for relevance in a world that embraces diversity.
In Bahrain, An Uprising Unabated
The United States needs to halt its assistance to Bahrain until the country implements promised democratic reforms.
United States Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline
Now that former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt has been convicted of genocide, it’s time for the “hegemonic puppeteer,” the United States, to be put on trial.
Purifying America’s Textbooks of Ethnic Studies
If right wingers are going to purge “ethnic studies” from America’s textbooks, then they’ll have to purge history too.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (5/17)
From the decline in democracy to the rise in the price of peace.
Right-Wing Think Tank’s Racist Report Distorts Prospects for Immigrants’ Future
A study by the Heritage Foundation maintained that Hispanic immigrants are deficient in I.Q. and thus disposed to rely on “government handouts.”
Trouble on the Other Side of the Euphrates
Iraqi demonstrators are now taking matters into their own hands.
This Week in OtherWords: May 15, 2013
Jill Richardson warns readers gearing up for their summer barbecues about the rise of superbugs.
Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria
What can we do in Syria? Unfortunately, not much.