Although Darfur has been a priority issue for both the Bush and Obama administrations and their European counterparts, Western efforts have not yielded a payoff in peace and well-being for the people of Darfur.
Los Angeles
LA’s Two New Climate Advocates: Long on Spin, Short on Details
Dick Platkin: If the climate initiatives championed by Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti and by Councilmember Paul Koretz are serious, and not just anti-Trump media campaigns, then these politicians need to become leading advocates for dipping deep into LA’s municipal budget to address climate change.
The Middle East
How America Armed Terrorists in Syria
Gareth Porter: Tulsi Gabbard’s “Stop Arming Terrorists Act” challenges for the first time in Congress a U.S. policy toward the conflict in the Syrian civil war that should have set off alarm bells long ago.
Progressive Issues
Healthy Distance Coexistence: Suggested Basic Strategy for the People’s Party, Part Three
Moji Agha: This kind of profoundly hopeful and positive (social democratic foundations for the People’s Party would safeguard it from being seen as a party/movement that “knows only what it doesn’t like/want.