In a May 10, 2008, article in the Asia Times "The case for invading Myanmar" Shawn W. Crispin writes: A unilateral - and potentially United Nations-approved - US military intervention in the name of humanitarianism could easily turn the tide against the impoverished country's unpopular military leaders, and simultaneously rehabilitate the legacy of lame-duck US....

Come to this talk on Monday afternoon if you can! A Voice From the Burmese Grassroots: a Talk by a Representative of Burma's Only Grassroots Human Rights Organization Date: Monday 5/5/2008 Time: 1:00 pm Place: UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy Room 250 2607 Hearst Ave. (Cross Street: LeRoy Ave) Berkeley, CA 94709 This guest speaker is one of the co-founders of the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters Network (Burma), and a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. He will be presenting about his organization's work. In 2002 the HRD started organizing human rights trainings in...

by Antony Duc Le writing for VietWill (April 24, 2008). By all accounts, the Ho Chi Minh City leg of the Olympic Torch relay taking place on the 29th of April is expected to be relatively trouble free for the Beijing government. Most likely, we will not see protesters in support of Tibet or Darfur in the streets due to Vietnam's strict laws governing public demonstrations. However, that does not mean that the Vietnamese people are welcoming the Olympic torch with open arms. On the contrary, for the past months, there have been intense discussions on internet forums and blogs...

I chose to take last semester off from grad school because I went to Nepal for my summer internship and decided to stay and support/experience the Constitutional Assembly elections planned for November. Unfortunately, they were postponed, no one was sure if they would actually happen, and the time came for me to return home. Finally, a new date was set for April 10th, and as that date approached, it looked like the election might actually happen. I, along with the entire country and a large part of the international community held my breath that it would be a peaceful and...

An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1917 for supposedly aiding Russia during World War I. The mass killings were carried out by the Turkish government fairly conspicuously through deportation and concentration camps and documented by everyone from the New York Times to the German Army. Basically a holocaust before the Holocaust.

Nicole Farkouh, MPP candidate 2008 at the Goldman School, is working in Nepal all summer for The Advocacy Project. This non-profit organization campaigns for peace in Nepal, a country recovering from 10 years of civil conflict. A beautiful though terribly poor country, Nepal descended into violence as Maoist guerillas declared war on the monarchic government. The conflict has caused huge human suffering and postponed any real economic and social development, although some political development is finally occurring. Last year the rebels and government signed an agreement by which political reforms are being made and peace slowly returning to the country....

The Chinese growth miracle can’t last forever. But it may last long enough to slaughter some sacred cows about the relationship between democracy and economic growth.