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Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers: Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Double Standard for Leaks
Originally published at Huffington Post. “There are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy,” then-CIA director David Petraeus told his employees in 2012 of the successful conviction of CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, the…
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Nigerian Election, Palestine Joins ICC, Sanctions on Venezuela
Originally published at the Fordham Observer‘s “Going Global” column. The Observer is launching an international column to update students on global events with expert commentary from professors. Tweet us what you think @fordhamobserver. Nigerian Presidential Election Muhammadu Buhari has become the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, unseating President…
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Islamophobia Following Paris Attacks: Defending Only Favorable Speech Is Not a Defense of Free Speech
Originally published at the Fordham Observer. Following the attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, large numbers of Westerners have been emphatically defending the right to free speech. Though it’s refreshing to see free speech rights at the top of our political discourse, this instance deserves scrutiny. It seems that…
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Report Shows More Evidence That United States Contributed to Rise of ISIS
A new report finds that a significant portion of ammunition used by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants was made in the United States. The study is more evidence that the U.S. government facilitated the rise of ISIS. According to London-based Conflict Armament Research, China, Russia, and the United States are the top three manufactureres of the sample…
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The Solution to ISIS Is Not Military Action
Originally published at the Fordham Observer. “Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. America’s war in Iraq will be over,” President Obama announced to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina on December 14, 2011, one day before the official end to the eight-year-long Operation Iraqi Freedom. I wish…