http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/america?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "america" on Netvouz http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Sex-Other-Desperate-Measures/dp/1401352014 Ah, to be young, Western and ambitious in a war zone. It's the early 1990s, and Cain and Postlewait are two American U.N. employees sent to Cambodia to help the country rebuild itself after two decades of war and genocide. Thomson is a New Zealandâ€"trained doctor who has already been there for a short while, patching up limbs shattered by land mines and looking for a corner of the world to save. The three meet during the U.N.'s efforts to install democracy in one of the unlikeliest places. Idealism, financial need, thirst for adventure and the desire to be a part of history bring them there, and the high they get from doing their work keeps them flitting around the globe, looking for hot spots to help cool down. Political > Books narky Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:06:25 GMT http://www.fpif.org Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a think tank for research, analysis, and action that brings together scholars, advocates, and activists who strive to make the United States a more responsible global partner. FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. We believe U.S. security and world stability are best advanced through a commitment to peace, justice and environmental protection as well as economic, political, and social rights. We advocate that diplomatic solutions, global cooperation, and grassroots participation guide foreign policy. Political narky Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:24:20 GMT http://www.helencaldicott.com The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. Political narky Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:08:37 GMT http://www.theonion.com An independent online newspaper with a refreshing and somewhat tongue-in-cheek view of world affairs. "A gem amongst all the garbage that is called independant online newspapers", says Will Shulba. Political > News narky Thu, 25 May 2006 22:58:33 GMT http://www.loc.gov The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. The Library of Congress collections include over 110 million items in a variety of formats and languages. Online access to the collections resident at the Library of Congress. Educational > Libraries narky Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:02:13 GMT http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/browne/protests.html "It was clearly theater staged by the Buddhists to achieve a certain political end. At the same time, there was a human element to it that was just horrifying, because the sequence of pictures showed the initial shock of the flames touching his face, and so forth. He never cried out or screamed, but you could see from his expression that he was exposed to intense agony, and that he was dying on the spot — and then, in the end, when the body was rigidly burned, they couldn't stuff him into a casket because he was splayed out in all directions. As shock photography goes, it was hard to beat. It's not something that I'm particularly proud of. If one wants to be gruesome about it, it was a very easy sequence of pictures to take." Political > News narky Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:12:54 GMT http://www.amazon.com/New-Nuclear-Danger-Military-Industrial-Complex/dp/1565847407 Since September 11, it has become clear that the United States is headed for more military funding to fight the "war on terrorism." But as longtime antinuclear activist, author and pediatrician Caldicott (Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do) shows, this buildup is nothing new with the exception of the first President Bush, U.S. policy has generally favored military spending. But spending on nuclear weapons is ineffective in fighting terrorists holed up in caves, Caldicott contends. Using a medical model, she focuses on what she calls the "disease" before she launches into her "remedy." She is strongest focusing on the ties between the American nuclear arsenal and large corporations, which have only their own interests at heart a point that should resonate in t Political > Books narky Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:07:36 GMT http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 100 million people. Political > News narky Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:38:55 GMT http://www.world-nuclear-university.org/html/atoms_for_peace/index.htm Address by Mr. Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, to the 470th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, 8 December 1953, 2:45 p.m. General Assembly President: Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (India) Political narky Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:25:01 GMT