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Stop war or aid?

By Elmira Bayrasli | Published: September 15, 2010
Linda Polman is a Dutch journalist who has just published The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? I came across it through this Boston Globe piece that briefly summarizes its contents as well as an interview with Polman.  I have not read the book yet, but am eager to do so – with trepidation. [...]
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U.S. to Iran: Let’s be friends

By Elmira Bayrasli | Published: June 6, 2010
Barack Obama shocked the Washington foreign policy establishment when, back in 2007, he said, “we’ve got to talk directly to Iran.”  It was a policy prescription that beltway insiders may have considered but certainly none openly discussed.  To do so would have been “naïve,” which is exactly what then candidate Obama was called. In his [...]
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