Satellite Democracy

Democracy Digest draws attention to Dishing Democracy, a recent PBS documentary on the relationship between satellite TV and democratic change.

Iran’s Great Debate

Over at Vote For Iran, Trita Parsi writes how the U.S. House of Representatives may inadvertantly be helping Ahmadinejad win the election due to some of the language in H.R.1327.

Who Won Lebanon, And What Now?

Claims of U.S. influence in Lebanon’s elections last Sunday, including from Syria’s Al-Baath daily newspaper, point to Secretary Clinton and Vice President Biden’s pre-election visits as having impacted a March

POMED Notes: “Dr. Rafe al-Eissawi, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq” at the USIP

The United States Institute of Peace hosted a talk today featuring Iraq’s deputy prime minister responsible

Diplomacy and Democracy Spending In the House

The House is considering H.R.2410 this morning to authorize funding for the State Department, the United Nations and the expansion of other diplomatic programs, including the Peace Corps.

The Plot Twists and Turns Before Iran’s Election

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he will expose corruption and cronyism among his critics in a television special that he plans to air before the election.

Obama’s speech, words need action

The speech in Cairo of President Barack Hussein Obama was watched with keen interest by over one and a half billion people around the world. Obama’s eulogistic comments for Islam

The Big Hate

Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a

Open Letter to member States of the Human Rights Council

Excellencies, We are civil society organizations from throughout the world that have contributed to the Human Rights Council and its work since its establishment. We have observed with increasing concern

Why is Islam in conflict with the West?

In the speeches he delivered in Ankara and Cairo, US President Barack Obama talked about making a new start between the US and the Muslim world. Naturally, all calls for