Experts Challenge Legality of U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan
In the past week, U.N. investigators and law professors alike have spoken out concerning the CIA-directed drone strikes on al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Christof Heyns, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, argued in a report to the U.N. General Assembly that this program raised serious and unexamined concerns regarding the […]
Read More →A Fresh START? Future of Arms Treaty Uncertain
The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is a nuclear arms reduction treaty that follows the expired START I, the START II, and the 2002 Treaty of Moscow. President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev signed the bilateral Treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation on April 8, 2010 in Prague. Now the […]
Read More →Afghanistan Absent from Midterm Campaigns
Upcoming congressional midterm elections are stirring Washington. All 435 seats in the House are up for grabs on November 2, and Republicans are widely expected to gain the House majority. The 37 contested seats in the Senate are also predicted to give Republicans significant gains. The midterm elections can determine the ease with which President […]
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