An Iranian human right lawyer facing death
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 31st, 2010 5:40 am by HL
An Iranian human right lawyer facing death
The courageous Teheran lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is in solitary confinement and on hunger strike. It would be nice if Hugo Chavez, Lula, or other friends of the Islamic Republic of Iran took up her cause. Paging Sean Penn….
New START Reflections, And Some Kudos
The issues of nuclear weapons and arms control are basically where I got my start (sorry) in foreign policy. My formative experiences as an advocate were in the early-80s nuclear freeze movement. The core argument was pretty straightforward: there was…
On New START, Fantasy Versus Reality
In the age of 24-hour news cycles and content-free shouting heads, there will be a tendency to forget last week’s historic vote to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction agreement and move on to other subjects. We should resist…