CrisesMagazine.org July 23 to July 30, 2009

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CrisesMagazine.org July 23 to July 30, 2009

Making Sense of Cheney's Madness
The seeming irrationality behind the George W. Bush administration’s
“against the grain” (and the law) policies on torture, warrantless
domestic surveillance, and now notification of Congress about CIA
covert operations was not irrational at all...
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/July-23-to-July-30-2009/making-sense-of-cheneys-madness.html

Barack Obama’s three misdeeds in Africa
After the G8 summit in Italy, US President Barack Obama flew off to
Africa with a so-called gift: an envelope of 20 billion dollars to
distribute over 3 years, so that “generous” donors in the rich
countries could “help” reduce world hunger. While the promise to
eradicate hunger has been made on a regular basis since 1970....
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/July-23-to-July-30-2009/barack-obamas-three-misdeeds-in-africa.html

The Right Strikes Back!
The presidency of George W. Bush was the moment of the greatest
electoral sweep of left-of-center political parties in Latin America
in the last two centuries. The presidency of Barack Obama risks being
the moment of the revenge of the right in Latin America....
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/July-23-to-July-30-2009/the-right-strikes-back.html

None but us to blame
So far America and the world have tried several tactics in the Middle
East since 2003. The United States unilaterally toppled Iraq's
autocrat, Saddam Hussein, using military power, while the world
multilaterally ...
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/July-23-to-July-30-2009/none-but-us-to-blame.html

The Afghan Triangle
The Pakistani army’s operation in the Swat Valley in northwest
Pakistan is the most sustained in five years of selective
counterinsurgency against the local Taliban. The toll already is
immense: 1.9 million internally displaced, including tens of thousands
housed in tents on parched plains; 15,000 soldiers battling 5,000
guerrillas; and more than a thousand dead, mainly militants according
to available counts but also soldiers and of course civilians....
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/July-23-to-July-30-2009/the-afghan-triangle.html

The (Re)Making of a Petro-State
Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and
destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a
world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become
what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe
set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/July-23-to-July-30-2009/the-remaking-of-a-petro-state.html

Special Crises Report:

New pact puts growing U.S.-India military ties under spotlight
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/Crises-Report/new-pact-puts-growing-us-india-military-ties-under-spotlight.html

Zelaya begins return to Honduras
http://www.crisesmagazine.org/index.php/Crises-Report/zelaya-begins-return-to-honduras.html