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Articles of the author Michael Shank
A role for Mecca in Afghanistan?
WASHINGTON, DC: Wandering seven long years in the mountains of Afghanistan with hardly an end in sight, the United States has just been offered a most fortuitous fix. It likely eludes America's current president and queuing candidates, Barack Obama (...)

16 - 10 - 2008
This Earth Day is Different
Earth Day, for some, is comparable to a sacred holiday, reminding us to tread carefully on nature s hallowed ground. For others, Earth Day serves as a starter on the basics of recycling and light-bulb changing. Regardless of the myriad ways in which (...)

25 - 04 - 2008
An Opium Alternative for Afghanistan
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai recently came out swinging at the West again, this time on the topic of opium eradication. Responding to the latest UN report showing an opium production increase of 17 percent in 2007, Karzai accused the (...)

27 - 09 - 2007
Talking tough: How Obama can fight extremism in Pakistan
For those of us who believe in diplomacy, Senator Barack Obama's recent pledge to dialogue with Cuba, North Korea and Iran offered a much-needed ray of hope. Amidst the security tough-talk by Democratic presidential hopefuls, at least one leading (...)

14 - 08 - 2007
Somalia, it is time to open your doors
Prominent Somali intellectuals and parliamentarians from sub-clans once constituting the core of the defeated Islamic Courts Union claim that old rivals are dominating the government and unwilling to share power. Oddly, the international (...)

12 - 08 - 2007
Learning nothing from Iraq, Democrats charge forward to Pakistan
United States Presidential Candidate and Senator Barack Obama's speech on August 1, 2007 at the Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington D.C., confirmed what many feared: the Democrats will continue, unabated, a war on terror that bears exact (...)

10 - 08 - 2007
Somalia Needs a 'Reconciliation Readiness' Program
Somalia's decision to delay yet again the National Reconciliation Congress comes as no surprise. The Transitional Federal Government's (TFG) latest attempt at reconciliation was foiled long before the first session of congress began. While many (...)

26 - 06 - 2007
America's Cultures of Violence: An Interview with US congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is now in her ninth term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia. Named by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she came to Congress as a (...)

25 - 05 - 2007
Interview with the Speaker of the Somali Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan
Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan was elected in 2004 as Speaker of the Somali Parliament and was allegedly removed from his post as speaker in early 2007, due to a conflict between Sharif Hassan and Somalia's President over whether or not Ethiopian troops (...)

11 - 04 - 2007
INTERVIEW: Improving US and Arab World Relations: An Interview with Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser
Michael Kaiser is the President of the John F. Kennedy Center and is the organizer of the 2007 Arab Arts Symposium scheduled for Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, and the 2009 Arab Arts Festival scheduled for the Kennedy Center in Washington (...)

15 - 03 - 2007
Chomsky on Iran, Iraq and the US's mafia complex
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in US policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. This is Part IV of a four-part series. Shank: (...)

22 - 02 - 2007
Chomsky on Iran, Iraq and the US's mafia complex
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in US policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. This is Part III of a four-part (...)

21 - 02 - 2007
Chomsky speaks on Iran, Iraq and the US's mafia complex
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in US policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. This is Part II of a four-part series. Shank: (...)

20 - 02 - 2007
Chomsky on Iran, Iraq and the US's Mafia complex
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in US policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. This is Part I of a four-part series. Shank: (...)

19 - 02 - 2007
Why the United States should dialogue with the Middle East: An Interview with US Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
United States Representative Wayne Gilchrest is a Republican Congressman serving the State of Maryland's 1st District. Recently, Michael Shank, Policy Director for the 3D Security Initiative in Washington DC, interviewed US Congressman Gilchrest for (...)

25 - 01 - 2007
Peak Oil and its Impact on the World: An interview with U.S. House of Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)
Now serving his eighth term in the United States House of Representatives, Roscoe G. Bartlett is one of three scientists in the US Congress. In the 109th Congress, Dr. Bartlett served as a senior member of the Science and Technology Committee and (...)

12 - 01 - 2007
Israel's December Report: Three Clues for 2007
Israeli government officials in charge of conducting an end-of-year review cannot be happy. While their mid-year review was equally disappointing, with the loss in Lebanon and lack of international support for Israel's role in Gaza's humanitarian (...)

27 - 12 - 2006
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Retire it or Retool it
With the United States Congress stamp of approval this month on India's nuclear pursuits, it may behoove world's leaders to retire the near-defunct Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and start configuring a new regulatory framework. The NPT is (...)

14 - 12 - 2006
Syria and Iran: To Engage or Not to Engage
As the United States veers from its modus operandi in Iraq and contemplates alliances with Syria and Iran to remedy Iraq's catastrophic reality, the question of dialogue remains at the fore. Does the US engage, or not engage, in talks with Syria and (...)

17 - 11 - 2006
Rebuild Africa by funding the African Union Mission in Darfur
Last April, in the delegate's lounge of the United Nations' headquarters in New York, this columnist met with the Organization of Islamic Conference's (OIC) permanent observer to the UN, Ambassador Abdul Wahab, to discuss ways in which Arab, (...)

07 - 11 - 2006
The US must engage Somalia now, before the Horn blows
Unlike the Middle East, which is frequented by senior officials from the United States government, when it comes to Africa, the US prefers to send its second-in-command. This is not new State Department protocol, however, as Congo's 4 million deaths (...)

05 - 11 - 2006
Veiled Prejudice
Britain's ex-foreign secretary's recent commentary on the Muslim niqab, or full veil, as a "visible statement of separation and of difference that "makes it more difficult for people "to acknowledge each other signifies the latest in Europe's (...)

20 - 10 - 2006
The Arab League breaks with the past and attempts a rebirth
With the United States Congress appealing to Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa for intervention in Darfur, and with Moussa's offer to provide peacekeeping troops, one gets the impression that the League is finally taking itself (...)

18 - 10 - 2006
American Fascism or Islamic Fascism?
Book Review: Conservatives without Conscience John W. Dean; Penguin Group; 186 pages; $25.95. Given the opportunity to correct President Bush's political blunder wherein he stated that "this nation is at war with Islamic fascists, John Dean, (...)

04 - 10 - 2006
The boomerang effect
The Bush Administration's policies in the Middle East were originally sold as a means of encouraging democracy. What they're actually doing is fostering a growing pan-Islamicism The Bush administration calls it the Middle East Partnership (...)

23 - 08 - 2006
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