I condemn excessive force

12 years ago

This is the third in a series of posts about violence in Kosovo Saturday.  I wrote yesterday: I may need…

This week’s peace picks

12 years ago

Short week in DC due to the Martin Luther King holiday Monday.  But some good things thereafter, which I'll mostly…

Nonviolence is nonviolent

12 years ago

I'm taking flak for yesterday's post on the violence between Albin Kurti's demonstrators and the police in Kosovo yesterday.  Most…

Burma gets real, but how real?

12 years ago

There can be no doubting the significance of Burma's moves in the past day or two:  a massive release of…

Violence answers the wrong question

12 years ago

People will ask, so I'll answer:  the efforts by Albin Kurti's "Self-determination" to block road crossings between Serbia and Kosovo…

Algeria: hoping for reform, not revolution

12 years ago

I missed parts of Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci's presentation this morning at CSIS--urgent phone calls kept me out at the…

False patriotism

12 years ago

The airwaves are so crowded with Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta condemning the desecration of Taliban corpses it may come…

Fog of peace

12 years ago

With a gloomy National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan summarized in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post reporting on resumption…

Heading for Belgrade next week

12 years ago

I haven't been to Belgrade for a long time.  I am looking forward to seeing many friends, meeting new ones…

Bashar is right, there is a conspiracy

12 years ago

Bashar al Assad is right.  There is an international conspiracy to bring him down.  The United States, Turkey, much of…