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MLB and Cleveland Indians in talks to 'transition away' from Chief Wahoo logo
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The Cleveland Indians might be moving away from using the Chief Wahoo logo in the near future. (Mark Duncan/AP)
Daniel Snyder may want to pay attention to this.
There is talk between the Cleveland Indians owners and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred to "transition away from the Chief Wahoo logo."
"We have specific steps in an identified process and are making progress," an MLB spokesman told the New York Times. "We are confident that a positive resolution will be reached that will be good for the game and the club."
The Chief Wahoo logo has been under fire for being viewed as offensive and dated; it is a smiling caricature with big white teeth that has long been a part of the Indians uniforms.
There are fans who adore the logo and don't want to see it removed, while there are others who protest outside Indians home games for its removal.
The football team in Washington has been under fire for ages for its team nickname. Many have pushed for Washington to change the team name but Snyder, the team owner, hasn't budged.
In recent years, the Indians have put more emphasis on the block C logo on their hats and uniforms. Although the team have used this logo more, Chief Wahoo can still be found on uniforms through the season.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is in talks with the Cleveland Indians to see if the team can "transition away" from use of Chief Wahoo. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
The Indians said in a statement Wednesday afternoon:"Commissioner Rob Manfred and Indians owner Paul Dolan have had ongoing dialogue on the topic of Chief Wahoo since last October. We certainly understand the sensitivities of the logo — those who find it insensitive and also those fans who have a long standing attachment to its place in the history of ther team.
"We fully expect to work with the Commissioner throughout the remainder of this season on finding a solution that is good for the game and our organization. Our primary focus right now is on the team and our pursuit of returning to the postseason."
The Indians, who are fresh off a World Series appearance, are looking to turn all of their attention on winning a title for the first time since 1948.
After leading last year's World Series 3-1, the Indians lost three straight games to the Cubs to lose the series in seven games. It was Chicago's first World Series since 1908.
The longest title drought in baseball now belongs to the Indians following the World Series loss.
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Alpina B7 duels Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S in drag race
By: Cam VanDerHorst
Two big, German luxury saloons face off to see which is faster.
Two high performance luxury behemoths battle it out in this drag race video from Gumbal (not to be confused with the Gumball Rally) on YouTube. The video begins with a beautiful Alpina B7 Biturbo finished in signature Alpina green. It's being followed closely by a bright blue Audi RS6 Avant.
However, that Audi is not the machine the Alpina is set to line up against. Instead, the tuned, bespoke BMW is set to race a Mercedes-AMG GT63 S. That's the matchup we all clicked to see.
More German drag racing action:
⠀ BMW 840d, Mercedes E400d, Audi A8 50 TDI in diesel drag race
⠀ Top Gear drag races BMW M5 vs 774-bhp tuned M5
First, the 608 bhp, twin-turbocharged luxury saloon warms up by facing off against a smaller stablemate, a BMW M2. The Alpina obliterates the M2, jumping ahead at the start and never looking back.
With the opening bout over, we're ready for the main event as the matte grey AMG lines up with the powerful Alpina. The two cars have a lot in common: both are bespoke ultra-luxury performance saloons. Both are powered by a twin turbo V8. Both have all wheel drive. Both make in excess of 600 bhp.
So which one is faster? The tension builds as both cars manoeuvre into position at the starting line. The AMG takes the left lane; the Alpina is on the right. The AMG gets the holeshot this time, jumping slightly ahead of the B7.
The B7 catches up and the cars appear nearly dead even, but the Alpina cannot overcome its setback at the launch. At the finish line, it appears that the AMG won by less than a car length.
We imagine that if this race was repeated several times, the results might be different each time. The cars appear to be very evenly matched, and the result seemed to come down to the drivers. That's our kind of drag racing.
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Okay, so this probably comes as a huge shock to you all, but I'm a total dork. (I know, you're stunned, right? *snort*) And one of the things I can't resist is a fabulous documentary. Even if I don't *think* I'm interested in a topic, a great documentary can hook me every time. And right now Discovery is showing an amazing one on the Arctic and Antarctic called Frozen Planet. If you watched the Planet Earth series a few years ago, this is similar.
I watched the first installment last night and it was fascinating. Anytime I see something like this, I'm left in awe of how intricately put together our world is, how everything is connected. (*hums "The Circle of Life") There was even a caterpillar that literally freezes to death then comes back to life every Spring. Craziness.
I'm sure last night's episode will be replayed some time this week, so I highly suggest you check it out even if you think it's not something you'd be into. Who can resist learning about criminal penguins?
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Jimi Somewhere takes an emotional night drive on new single "In My Car"
JT Early· November 13, 2020
Following a string of singles released throughout the year including the R&B-leaning "Selfish" and the anthemic "Jesus" featuring Kacy Hill, Norwegian artist Jimi Somewhere has dropped "In My Car" – the third single off his upcoming debut album Nothing Gold Can Stay.
The song is a quintessential sad bop which starts off subdued with Somewhere's delicate vocals lamenting, "It felt like the world was ours," while an electric guitar in the background hints at a future outburst. When the beat comes in, his voice becomes more plaintive as if he's all too aware that good moments in life cannot last forever. If anything, there is a sense of impending doom – the ending of something – as he sings "At least we've got each other when we're crashing through the walls."
In three and a half minutes, Somewhere truly takes listeners on a late night drive. The sounds of an idling engine and the screech of tires helps to build the melancholic world the song inhabits. As it reaches its conclusion, "In My Car" becomes a powerful mix of thunderous drums, guitar riffs and auto-tuned yet emotive vocalizations. In the final seconds, the production quietens and it seems Somewhere has managed to hit the brakes. Whether he has found any peace however is a question that is yet unanswered.
Jimi Somewhere's debut album Nothing Gold Can Stay drops February 5 next year. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of the science fiction novella, The Stars Change (finalist for the Lambda, Rainbow, and Bisexual Book Awards), the linked story collection, Bodies in Motion, and eleven other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian-American Book Awards and has been translated into six languages. Other recent publications include the collection Without a Map (Aqueduct Press, co-authored with Nnedi Okorafor), the short story "Communion," published in Clarkesworld, two short stories for George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series, and essays in Queers Dig Time Lords and Chicks Dig Gaming. Mohanraj teaches creative writing, pop culture, and post-colonial literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she also taught at the Clarion science fiction and fantasy workshop in 2008. She is a graduate of Clarion West, and holds an MFA and a Ph.D. in creative writing.
Mohanraj founded and served as editor-in-chief from 2000 - 2003 for Strange Horizons, a Hugo-nominated speculative fiction magazine (www.strangehorizons.com). Mohanraj currently serves as Director of the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org), which offers a variety of grants and resources for science fiction and fantasy writers and readers. Mohanraj lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, with her partner, Kevin, their two small children, and a sweet dog. www.maryannemohanraj.com.
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SCIENCE: Skeleton Of A Rare Form Of Dinosaur Auctioned For Over 2 Million U.S. Dollars At Eiffel Tower. The Species Of The Dinosaur Remains a Mystery.
PARIS, June 5 -- The skeleton of a rare form of dinosaur was sold for over 2 million U.S. dollars at the Eiffel Tower in Paris Monday.
The bones, nine meters long and 2.6 meters high, were discovered during a dig in the U.S. State of Wyoming in 2013. The dinosaur is believed to have lived during the late Jurassic period about 150 million years ago, according to the Aguttes auction house.
The species of the dinosaur so far remains a mystery for researchers as its bones are different from any known types of dinosaurs.
Scientists first thought it was an allosaurus, but after an in-depth examination, the skeleton presented major anatomical differences from known allosaurus, having notably more teeth and distinctive bones.
The buyer of the skeleton, who refused to be named publicly, purchased the dinosaur's skeleton for about 2.36 million U.S. dollars.
The auction house promised that the new owner would be allowed to choose a name for the dinosaur, "as long as it's scientific, and subject to peer review."
Part of the proceeds from the sale will go to two charities fighting for the preservation of endangered species.


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When I begin to meditate on this verse, I had questions. I asked God how can someone be perfected in love? How can you do this? The answer was just this, trust as I continued to meditate and think on God's word it hit me. Gods perfect love casts out fear. You need to trust God when he says I will never leave you nor forsake you. Also, when God says I will uphold you with my righteous right hand or ALL things will work for your good. You see if you trust everything God says you will respond to anything with love not out of emotion, not out of the fear of being hurt. You don't have to protect your feelings protect your future by responding in love.
The reason I can share this with you is that I failed in this area, but after I failed, I got back up and believed in God's word. I guess it isn't a failure after all. Allow me to be transparent about my experience there was an instance where I believed that someone wronged me, so I became angry, and I expressed how devastated I was and that I never wanted to see them ever again. Then God's perfect love lead me to 2 Timothy 24-26: "The servant of the Lord must not participate in quarrels but must be kind to everyone [even-tempered, preserving peace, and he must be], skilled in teaching, patient and tolerant when wronged. He must correct those who are in opposition with courtesy and gentleness in the hope that God may grant that they will repent and be led to the knowledge of the truth [accurately understanding and welcoming it] and that they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
After reading 2 Timothy 24-26 I quickly knew what I had done wrong. I knew that I wasn't tolerant, nor did I correct with courtesy and gentleness but despite all these things that were shown to me through the word of God I still believed that God always loves me. God was showing me that he loved me through his correction. I want you to know that this is perfect love. God's perfect love taught me how to handle the situation. God's perfect love corrected me and instructed me.
Father God in the name of Jesus, it is written in your word that you have not given us the spirit of fear but of love, joy, power and a sound mind. God, we lay the spirit of fear at your feet and we put on the spirit of love and the spirit of trust. God help us to receive the perfect love that you desire to give us. God complete your love in us and through us. God do your perfect work in us, and we will know and proclaim that it was all you. In Jesus name, Amen.


A standard orienteering course consists of a start, a series of control sites that are marked by circles, connected by lines and numbered in the order they are to be visited, and a finish. The control site circles are centered on the feature that is to be found; this feature is also defined by control descriptions (sometimes called clues, right), a list of which you'll receive along with your map, or printed on your map. Out in the terrain, a control flag (below) marks the location that the orienteer must visit.
To verify a visit, the orienteer may use a punch hanging next to the flag to mark his or her control card. Different punches make different patterns of holes in the paper. Many clubs now use electronic "punching" instead, using a finger stick with a chip inside it that records your time at each control you visit (one standard electronic control station is depicted below right).
The route between "controls" is not specified, and is entirely up to the orienteer; this element of route choice and the ability to navigate through the forest are the essence of orienteering.
Most orienteering events use staggered starts to ensure that each orienteer has a chance to do his or her own navigating, but there are several other popular formats, including relays, mass-start endurance events, and "Score-O" events in which the orienteer must find as many controls as possible within a specified time (rogaine is an endurance version of score-O).
Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers in Scandinavia (See "A brief history," below), orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is so-called foot orienteering--this refers to orienteering while running or walking on foot. Typically, when people use the term orienteering, this is what they're referring to. But now people also orienteer on skis, mountain bikes--even in canoes!
The history of orienteering begins in the late nineteenth century in Sweden, where it originated as military training. The actual term "orienteering" was first used in 1886 at the Swedish Military Academy Karlberg and referred to the crossing of unknown land with the aid of a map and a compass. The competitive sport began when the first competition was held for Swedish military officers in May 1893 at the yearly games of the Stockholm garrison. The first civilian competition was held near Oslo, Norway, in October 1897.
At the end of World War I, the first large scale orienteering meet was organized in 1918 by Major Ernst Killander of Stockholm, Sweden. Then President of the Stockholm Amateur Athletic Association, Killander was a Scouting movement leader who saw orienteering as an opportunity to interest youth in athletics. The meet was held south of Stockholm in 1919 and was attended by 220 athletes. Killander is credited with coining the Swedish word orientering, from which the word orienteering is derived, in publicity materials for this meet. Killander continued to develop the rules and principles of the sport, and today is widely regarded throughout Scandinavia as the "Father of Orienteering."
The sport gained popularity with the development of more reliable compasses in the 1930s. The first international competition, between Swedish and Norwegian orienteers, was held in 1932. In 1933, the Swedish compass manufacturer Silva Sweden AB introduced a new compass design, the protractor compass (see left). Until the introduction of the thumb compass, the protractor compass would remain the state of the art in the sport.
By 1934, over a quarter million Swedes were actively participating in the sport, and orienteering had spread to Finland, Switzerland, the Soviet Union and Hungary. The nations of Finland, Norway and Sweden all established national championships, and remain, along with Switzerland, the dominant nations in the sport today. The Swedish national orienteering society, Svenska Orienteringsförbundet, the first national orienteering society, was founded in 1936.
Find out how and when orienteering came to the U.S.
The first international governing body for orienteering was the International Orienteering Federation, which was formed by Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and West Germany in 1961. National orienteering federations from 67 different countries, including the U.S. and Canada, are members of the IOF today.
World championships were held biannually from 1961 to 2003, and are now held every year. The only World Orienteering Championship to be held in North America took place at Harriman State Park, just north of New York City in 1993.


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Welcome to the Spring 2009 issue of TOS. Here is an overview of the content at hand.
First up is my interview with Yaron Brook about Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and current events, in which Dr. Brook explains why, more than fifty years ago, Rand was able to project the kinds of crises we are seeing today.
"America's Unfree Market" by Dr. Brook and Don Watkins demonstrates the actual nature of the allegedly free market that delivered the current mayhem.
"Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis" by Richard M. Salsman zeros in on the fundamental cause of the problem, showing that widespread acceptance of the morality of self-sacrifice necessitated the kinds of laws, regulations, and decisions that have driven the financial markets into the gutter.
"Lest We Be Doomed to Repeat It: A Survey of Amity Shlaes's History of the Great Depression" by Ari Armstrong provides an essentialized chronology of the era, focusing on the (ominously familiar sounding) policies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"Houston, We Have a (Zoning) Problem" by J. Brian Phillips demonstrates that Houston's absence of zoning laws is largely responsible for the city's relative health and prosperity, and urges Houstonians to halt and reverse the encroachments on their property rights before they find themselves zoned.
"Of Freedom and Fat: Why Anti-Obesity Laws Are Immoral" by Stella Daily discusses efforts at state and federal levels to put Americans on a collective diet by violating the rights of food producers, restaurateurs, and consumers.
"Doubt vs. Certainty" by Gena Gorlin casts certainty on why the movie Doubt is leaving viewers wondering whether they can know anything for sure.
"Religion vs. Subjectivism: Why Neither Will Do," a chapter from my book Loving Life, examines those alternatives and finds them equally life-thwarting and revealingly similar.
The books reviewed in this issue are Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve by William A. Fleckenstein with Frederick Sheehan (reviewed by Joe Kroeger); Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (reviewed by Eric Daniels); and Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare by Steven D. Knope (reviewed by Michael Garrett).
Enjoy the articles and reviews, and let your friends know about The Objective Standard. Everyone concerned with the future should be reading this journal today.


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Man Allegedly Murdered His Disabled Girlfriend — Then Moved Into Her Home And Posed As Her On Facebook
By Natasha Ishak | Edited By John Kuroski
Investigators said the man took his girlfriend to Las Vegas under the guise of a romantic vacation and house-hunting to move in together.
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John Matthew Chapman is awaiting federal trial over the murder of Jaime Feden, who he allegedly suffocated by binding her to a signpost in the Nevada desert.
In a brutal case of cold-blooded murder and identity theft, a man in Pennsylvania has been charged with the kidnapping and death of his girlfriend, then moving into her apartment and impersonating her online.
According to CNN, the trouble began in September 2019 when John Matthew Chapman, 40, took the female victim — identified as 33-year-old Jaime Feden, with whom he was in a relationship — to the Nevada desert under the guise of a romantic getaway and house-hunting trip.
But once the couple arrived in Las Vegas on Sept. 23 after a cross-country road trip by car, things took an insidious turn.
By Chapman's own account to police, two days after their arrival in Las Vegas, he convinced Feden to prepare for a "bondage-themed photo shoot" in the middle of the hot, secluded Nevada desert.
After they found a spot in a nearby desert outside of Las Vegas, Chapman bound Feden's hands and feet together with zip ties onto a signpost. He also duct-taped her mouth and nose so she couldn't breathe. He kept her that way until she ultimately died from suffocation.
The murder was not a spontaneous homicide but was instead premeditated, investigators found.
FacebookFamily and friends became suspicious after Feden would not take their calls or see them but still communicated through unusual texting on Facebook.
"Chapman had planned to kill [Feden] before they left Pennsylvania and he had a kill kit ready before their departure for Nevada," according to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Jesse Laramee.
Chapman told investigators that he misled Feden into believing that the trip was a romantic vacation and that they were looking for a house so they could move in together. Unfortunately, the story doesn't stop there.
After Feden died, Chapman removed the zip ties and tape that he had used to bind her and then stripped her lifeless body of all her clothes and left her there at the scene. Then he drove himself back to Pennsylvania to Feden's home in Bethel Park. He posed as her on social media to communicate with her family, likely to deter suspicion.
A family member told investigators she became suspicious when Feden didn't answer her phone calls but was still communicating through her Facebook account. But the messaging, the relative said, was clearly not Feden's usual style.
Feden's subsequent murder wasn't confirmed until months later when a friend of Feden — who has VATER syndrome which causes physical birth defects including small size — contacted the Bethel Park Police Department to request a welfare check at her apartment.
A local news report about Feden's case.
When police arrived at the home, Feden's neighbors told them that they hadn't seen the woman — or her van — for at least two months. They did, however, notice a man coming in and out of her apartment.
"They had recently observed a person whom they believed to be her boyfriend [Chapman] entering and leaving the victim's residence," the US Attorney's Office said. Inside the apartment, investigators found a slew of incriminating evidence, including a fake CIA identification card with Chapman's name and photograph, a backpack of zip ties and duct tape, and Feden's cellphone.
A search of Chapman's own phone uncovered pictures of his girlfriend under a "Vegas" sign and another of her tied to a signpost. Investigators later found that upon his return to Pennsylvania, Chapman moved into Feden's apartment and passed it off as his own.
For now, Chapman has been charged with kidnapping and is being held in custody in Allegheny County while he waits for his day in federal court. If convicted, Chapman could face the maximum penalty of life in prison or death.
Now that you've caught up on the horrific case of a man who murdered his girlfriend then posed as her on social media, read about the guy who "pranked" his girlfriend by putting her up for sale on eBay. Then, learn about the incredibly disturbing case of a man who knowingly infected his girlfriend with HIV.
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Time to Rekindle Talks with Iran
The latest IAEA report on Iran may dangerously undermine prospects for a reasonable and negotiated resolution of the Iran-West nuclear standoff.
Richard Javad Heydarian
The latest International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) report on Iran may dangerously undermine prospects for a reasonable and negotiated resolution of the Iran-West nuclear standoff.
The report's veracity and authenticity is in itself questionable, for it heavily relies on rehashed data and documents provided by a number of Western intelligence agencies. More worryingly, the timing of its release invites tremendous skepticism. Bent on increasing their pressure on Iran, Western powers and Israel are trying to come up with any sort of justification to push for a new round of even more punitive sanctions, which could potentially target Iran's central bank and oil exports. The dubious allegations regarding Iran's purported assassination plot in Washington are a crucial indicator of how America and its allies are seeking to tighten the noose around Iran.
In light of major upheavals across the Middle East and the shaky foundations of the global economy, Washington should realize that the last thing it needs is to be dragged into a new and even more destructive war. More importantly, pushing for further sanctions would only embolden Iran to reconsider its very membership in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), given Tehran's increasing frustrations with the IAEA. The best solution is to channel this renewed sense of urgency into the diplomatic track by reviving talks and exploring the so-called "step-by-step" option proposed by Russia. This is the best way to avoid a global tragedy. There is still time for proper negotiation.
Iran in the Crosshairs
After months of media frenzy over developments in the Arab world and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, Iran is back at the center of global media's geopolitical discourse. Both the Israel lobby and the Obama administration have played a crucial role in putting Iran back in the spotlight. Two important developments contributed to this.
First was the bizarre and almost surreal allegations against Iran, implicating members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in a supposed plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States. Without even confirming the veracity of the accusations in a credible court, Washington turned down Tehran's offers for cooperation and formal diplomatic clarification. To make things worse, President Obama condemned Iran and called for even more severe sanctions. Subsequently, Washington dispatched an envoy to Europe to discuss the prospects of imposing sanctions on Iran's Central Bank and oil exports, which could potentially paralyze Iran's transition economy and drive oil prices to new heights. While Iran extended the olive branch, America stepped up its rhetorical warfare. Consequently, Iran found itself pushed against the wall as the United States and Saudi Arabia stepped up their pressure on Tehran.
However, America's other major ally, Israel, was busy pushing the envelope even further. The Israeli lobby and the Republicans in Congress stepped up their pressure on Washington to adopt an even more confrontational approach toward Iran. Obama's tragic endorsement of the flimsy "Iran plot" opened up a floodgate of political chutzpah and ideological zealotry. As a result, the House Foreign Affairs Committee was able to advance a new sanctions bill, which if turned into law could make it practically impossible for the U.S. government to negotiate with Iran. By any measure, this bill represents one of the most absurd pieces of legislation on foreign affairs. Never in modern history has the U.S. government been barred from negotiating with even its mortal enemies, be it China or the Soviet Union. Of course, one hopes the Obama administration will come to its senses and veto this bill if and when the full Congress approves it.
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Since the early 1990s, Israeli politicians, from Shimon Peres to Benjamin Netanyahu, have been warning the world about an imminently nuclear Iran. Interestingly, they have, over time, added an additional element to their doomsday premonitions: the threat of a unilateral Israeli attack if the international community fails to stop Iran. This strategy has enabled Israel to continuously disrupt nuclear negotiations by pressuring the P5+1 to focus on sanctions and political pressure rather than dialogue, compromise, and carrots. This explains why in earlier years, namely 2002-2005, the West was not only pushing for more intrusive inspections — outside the NPT ambit — through the so-called "additional protocol," but it also called for the total suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment. The West essentially demanded that Iran give up its nuclear program wholesale. Obviously, this was unacceptable to the Iranians. As a result, the Iranian doves — who favored negotiations and more compromise with the West — were discredited, while the more hawkish elements were vindicated. Nonetheless, there were subsequent efforts at exploring a reasonable compromise within the framework of the NPT.
The problem is that every time there was a development on the negotiation front, the Israelis lobbied for more sanctions, threatened to launch an attack, came up with dubious accounts of nuclear warhead research and development by Iran, and produced inconclusive and circumstantial evidence in order to demonize Iran. Israel has undermined any trace of goodwill and trust — essential elements for compromise — in the negotiations. Although Israel's strategy has led to continual sanctions against Iran, it has done nothing to resolve outstanding differences between Tehran and Western powers.
Israel's strategic reasoning is increasingly clear. In many ways, Israel's main objective in "securitizing" the "Iran threat" is to prevent Tehran from normalizing relations with great powers, especially the United States, while making sure that Iran is continuously isolated over its nuclear program. Aware that the Iranian nation is firmly in support of the country's inherent right, under the NPT, to sustain its multi-billion dollar civil nuclear program, Israel hopes to indefinitely leverage the specter of a "nuclear Iran" to isolate Tehran from the Western international order.
Of course, Israel-Iran tensions have further intensified in recent years. On one hand, Iran is continuously mastering its nuclear technology and rapidly developing its ballistic missile capabilities. On the other hand, the current Israeli government is composed of a coalition that includes ideologues such as Foreign Minister Lieberman and hawkish politicians such as Prime Minister Netanyahu, who have painted Iran as an "existential threat" to Israel and the region. Unless the Obama administration decides to rein in Netanyahu's zealotry, America will be embroiled in more and more conflicts. Washington is already isolated over its opposition to Palestine's bid for statehood. The last thing it needs is to engage in a military conflict with a determined and ambitious regional power such as Iran. Israel is a strategic liability for America. America should begin to recognize this.
The IAEA Reportage
For Iran, the IAEA is increasingly becoming pliable and vulnerable to Western pressure. The recent IAEA report heavily relies on Western intelligence agencies, and there are concerns that its head, Yukiya Amano, enjoys a cozy relationship with America and its allies, as revealed by nuclear Wikileaks cables. Worryingly, given that the IAEA does not have its own independent intelligence-gathering capabilities, it is not clear how it "authenticated" the information it received from outside sources.
The report also relies on rehashed data and circumstantial evidence, which was previously dismissed by the former IAEA chief, Mohammad Elbaradei. Back in 2007, Iran actually responded to the same allegations, deconstructing and rebutting the major arguments of the report in a lengthy 118-page paper. In fact, the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report also stated that Iran never really decided to push through with weaponizing its nuclear program. No such executive decision was ever made.
The report talks about a number of issues, which go way back to 2004. As former IAEA official Olli Heinonen said, the report does not constitute a "smoking gun." There is no conclusive and verifiable evidence suggesting that Iran has actively pursued the development of a nuclear warhead. Until 2005, the IAEA inspectors actually visited areas of concern, especially the town of Parchin, and found nothing suspicious. Assuming – but not conceding – that the report is correct in identifying some "research-related" activities with respect to developing an explosive nuclear device or computer models of a warhead, one could not conclude that the Iranian regime per se was automatically involved. Besides, there is a huge gap between research and actual development of a warhead. This is a crucial point.
The IAEA report could be extremely counterproductive if it begins to seriously estrange Iran. Ahead of the release of the report, Iran sent a letter to Amano, making certain clarifications and issuing some requests. He refused even to respond. Aware of how counterproductive and questionable the report is, China and Russia lobbied the IAEA to defer its release. However, it seems that the IAEA has succumbed to pressures to release this report, probably in an attempt to paint Iran in a dim light.
If this trend continues, there could be two disastrous consequences. First, Iran may begin to fear that inspections could turn into intelligence-gathering activities with respect to Tehran's military capabilities (outside the nuclear gambit). Tehran recalls how, in the 1990s, Iraq found out that spies had infiltrated UNinspection units. In fact, Iran has already complained that the report goes well-beyond IAEA's institutional mandate because it covers issues such as Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, which are clearly outside the realm of the country's nuclear program. Second, Iran may reconsider its very membership in the NPT. Perception is crucial in international affairs. An IAEA-Iran estrangement is a dangerous prospect for both Iran and the international community. So far, Iran has not indicated any inclination to withdraw from the NPT, but the probability will increase unless the IAEA and the Western powers re-focus their energies on constructive engagement and nuclear negotiations. The IAEA should give Iran sufficient time and opportunity to clarify the issues raised by the latest report.
Re-Engaging Iran
Looking at the dynamics of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, we can clearly see that they are fraught with threats of sanctions and military attack, while there is a clear absence of a reasonable diplomatic approach. In the early years of the 21st century, the West could have resolved the conundrum by offering Iran real carrots. Instead of calling for intrusive inspections – involving Iran's military establishments beyond its nuclear program – and/or a total suspension of nuclear enrichment, the West could have offered technical assistance or industrial-scale power plants to help meet Iran's rapidly growing energy needs.
The reformists, under President Khatami, were obviously ready to negotiate, cooperate, and resolve the issue once and for all. Iran's main aim was to establish energy self-sufficiency and feed its rapidly industrializing economy. There was no incentive for inviting sanctions that would hurt Iran's economy.
However, Iran is now well past that point. It has already invested billions of dollars in the program. It has a wide network of nuclear plants and research and development centers. The Bushehr power plant is already operational and generating electricity. In this sense, the West does not have much of a carrot to offer. The best it can do is to offer technical cooperation and ensure the safety and stability of Iran's nuclear installations. Of course, under better conditions, the West could cooperate with Iran in building safe and modern civilian power plants in the future.
For Iran, the barrage of sanctions and continuous accusations against Tehran come off as some synchronized conspiracy to stymie Iran's technological development. This is a sentiment that is shared by most Iranians, regardless of their political leanings. Iran is a signatory to the NPT and therefore relishes its legal and sovereign right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program. Moreover, Iran has actually welcomed efforts at resolving tensions over its nuclear program. Back in 2010, Iran agreed to a Turkish- and Brazilian-brokered deal that would have allowed Iran to obtain higher levels of enriched uranium (strictly for medical purposes) though a third party, in exchange for its domestically enriched fissile material. It was a potential breakthrough in negotiations, but the West dismissed the deal right off the bat and slapped Iran with new rounds of sanctions, which are imposing immense hardship on the entire economy.
The Istanbul talks failed to resolve differences between Iran and European powers. So, in an attempt to break the deadlock, Russia proposed the so-called "step-by-step" approach, whereby in exchange for Iran's cooperation at every stage of negotiations there would be a corresponding rollback in sanctions. Tehran welcomed this approach. Critically, this novel approach strikes at the heart of the problem in a decade of fruitless negotiations: a general trend where sanctions and threats supplant true negotiation, dialogue, and compromise.
The Russian proposal could re-energize talks, because it offers strategic engagement and constructive dialogue in exchange for transparency and downgrading of sanctions. This is perhaps the best way to resolve tensions and channel our new sense of urgency into a more constructive endeavor. Given Russia and China's opposition to any new round of sanctions or/and military aggression, the United States should avoid alienating these powers and instead more assiduously follow the diplomatic track.
After all, Fareed Zakaria was perhaps right when he said, "Strategic engagement with an adversary can go hand in hand with a policy that encourages change in that country. That's how Washington dealt with the Soviet Union and China in the 1970s and 1980s. Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order."
There is also the bigger geopolitical picture. In light of America's withdrawal from Iraq, and eventually from Afghanistan, engaging Iran carries immense strategic dividends. Iran is not only crucial to the world economy as a major producer of oil and gas, but it also wields considerable influence across a volatile and extremely strategic region. Further sanctions against Iran, targeting its central bank and oil exports, would simply drive oil prices to historic heights, choking off a fragile global economy. Any aggression against the country, or more punitive sanctions, could encourage Iran to use its regional influence to undermine U.S. interests in the region. Iran has well-developed ballistic missile technology, and it has a wide network of asymmetrical warfare capabilities to deter any form of aggression. Therefore, neither war nor more punitive sanctions seem to be reasonable. The West should acknowledge Iran's regional status and use this to its advantage by actually accommodating Iran's legitimate interests. After all, a "grand bargain" is perhaps the best way to resolve Iran-West tensions.
At this point, the IAEA report suggests that Iran is far from developing a nuclear warhead. Iran has not yet made that decision. There is still time for real negotiations and compromise.
Foreign Policy In Focus contributor Richard Javad Heydarian is a foreign affairs analyst based in Manila. He can be reached at Jrheydarian@gmail.com.


The Queen was at the centre of events last weekend to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day. The Sovereign led tributes to the "forgotten army" of veterans from the Second World War in Asia in one of a series of events held in Westminster and across the nation. As I watched the ceremonies I thought of one of the region's forgotten hero's, Eric Lomax (1919-2012) from Berwick upon Tweed. Forgotten that is until his war time story of brutality and forgiveness featured in a best-selling book The Railway Man (1995). The book was later turned into a 2013 British–Australian critically acclaimed war film of the same name starring Colin Firth as Lomax and Nicole Kidman as Patti Lomax his wife.
The story tells of Lomax's capture by the Japanese in Singapore at the age of 22; the brutal inhuman camp conditions, the forced labour that constructed the Thai-Burma "Death" Railway, remembered in the film Bridge over the River Kwai; the fierce sadistic beatings, torture and later, after the war, his confrontation with one of his captors, a Japanese secret police officer, Takashi Nagase. Nagase died in 2011 and Lomax in 2012 before the film was completed. The Railway Man is a film of profound horror, of grief and tortured dreams. It is also a story of reconciliation. Lomax finds that as he tries to let go of death dealing war memories he finds a measure of peace. It is a film not easily forgotten.
After the morning service and an afternoon drumhead ceremony on Horse Guards Parade, the VJ veterans of the "forgotten army" assembled to march down Whitehall to Westminster Abbey in a special anniversary parade, to rapturous public applause, passing the statue of Field Marshal Slim and The Cenotaph where wreaths were laid. It was a moving conclusion to the morning events that began at St Martin in the Fields. The procession of proud veterans made its way cheered on by a grateful and thankful crowd at every step. The forgotten army was remembered at last.
Away from the military, and focusing on our own churches, this might be a time to remember too Margaret Dryburgh, the Presbyterian missionary who was imprisoned after the fall of Singapore, and who died in a Japanese camp in Sumatra in April 1945. Her story was later told through the Hollywood film Paradise Road, though her character (played by Pauline Collins) was given a fictional name.
Our Stockton Road church (St George's) in Sunderland contains a striking piece of art that was dedicated in her memory back in 2001. Hers is a life that is worth remembering.
John: Margaret Dryburgh' story was told on BBC 1 Songs of Praise on 9th August to commemorate VJ Day 70. Her story featured the singing of "The Captives Hymn" by a beautiful choir with one of the captives from the Japenese Prison Camp present. The clip/service is still available – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02z0wps – well worth listening to. A remarkable lady. RIP.


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IN the UK it's illegal to own a handgun. But guess what, the gangs and career criminals have no problem in obtaining them. If you have any legitimate guns, they have to be kept in a locked steel Gun Safe. Oh, and they have to be registered with the police, and you need a firearms certificate for each one.
Legally held guns are not that easy to get, illegal ones are if you know the right people.
#27 Davdi, Jan 11, 2013
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Yes, all guns should be registered, the same as cars, with a registration that goes with the gun when sold. That would not take anybody's right to own a gun away, or infringe on the second amendment in any way.
A car is different. Driving a car is NOT a right guaranteed by our Constitution, it is a privilege. Owning arms is a Constitutional right, just like free speech, freedom of the press, the right to a fair and speedy trial.
You don't like guns? Which of the other rights above do you want to have taken away?
#28 rootbrain, Jan 11, 2013
Davdi said: ↑
That's a point that's brought up over and over. It doesn't matter to those that would take away our rights. They are in a position to afford to have private protection, or in a position to become and "exception" or special case because of fame, fortune or political clout.
They are blinded by their own zeal. This is really more about power than guns. Never doubt it.
sntaylor Android Expert
rootbrain said: ↑
And this school shooting Student tells teacher: 'I don't want to shoot you' - Yahoo! News
With a shotgun, stolen from his brother who owned it legitimately. And the guns at Sandy Hook? Stolen from his mother, a legitimate owner. She paid the ultimate price for her carelessness and not getting her son the help he needed, as did the children in this tragedy.
Interesting that both recent cases(and if I remember correctly the cinema shooting) guns were originally purchased legally.....I rarely hear of advocates to guns showing examples of mass murder to the general public(criminals in gang war fare don't count here) in schools or malls etc, using illegally purchased guns.
Even the more recent occurrences of mass shootings here in the UK were done with legally purchased guns!
I personally believe that the problem stems from a deeper problem in a mental state of mind. For some reason there are a group of people who want to commit suicide, but do so while taking the lives of others, this is the real problem...... unfortunately I don't have the answer.
With tighter gun laws though, these people may be less likely to get hold of weapons that can kill many in short period of time with the pull of a trigger(bombs being an exception which takes a bit more workso can't be done on an impulse!)
#30 sntaylor, Jan 11, 2013
The founding fathers had no objection to it. They required firearms to be inspected and kept in good condition, with an adequate supply of ammunition as a public militia was our original national defense. At one time it was required for a man upon a certain age to own a firearm due to this. Which was in my opinion the original intent of the 2nd amendment.
And now the NRA wants more firearms put into people's homes, cars and schools. Yes, make them more readily available for crazy people to acquire whether legally or not. It is an insane proposition.
Once again, the Supreme Court has heard this argument and disagrees with you. Good luck getting that reversed. This argument has been made at the highest levels more than once and the Supreme Court has consistently rejected it.
There you go again. Nobody is taking about banning guns. The second amendment doesn't say anything about the right to bear arms WITH NO REGULATIONS. You people fall for the scare tactics every single time. It's comical, really. We had the assault rifle ban before and the Supreme Court did nothing to stop it. 62% of Americans are in favor of the assault rifle ban now. The NRA is holding the country hostage by brainwashing the weak minded.
so once we get the almighty answer youre pushing for....... and they regulate to whatever extent you believe they will.... and assault weapons are banned again...... should we blame you for the next assault weapon murder? (and dont doubt there will be one with or without a ban).... or who do we blame? since the liberals tell us not to fall for scare tactics and they have the solution
Yes, but ordinary or accidental criminals do not have access to guns, knives at best. Of course, we still have assassins and the like. But there is not the fear that the angry man next to you could pull a gun.
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criminals typically dont legally have access to guns in the US either
62% of Americans are in favor of the assault rifle ban now.
Why Not A Ban On Weapons Designed Specifically For Killing?
This Would Mean Hunting Knives And AllGuns! Covers Assault Weapons!
remember I Stay In The Country Where We Deal With Airport Bombers In Cars By Punching Them
Better put, what is not an assault weapon?
I found one!
dden4012 Well-Known Member
All this malarkey about gun regulations has cleaned out the our local gun stores inventory. The price of an assault rifle has risen faster in the last few months, than gold over the last 2 years.
If a nut job can't get a gun for their killing spree they can get a knife, chemicals, vehicle, and yes bathtubs....just saying.... and there's not a damn thing a politician can do to stop it. This is divide and conquer politics. Both side use fear to brainwash those who subscribe to their notion. Those 30,50,100 round magazines that were in the gun shop are now in the homes and vehicles of private citizens who bought as many as they could afford. They bought out of fear. And that scares the sh!t out of the libs that don't want you to have those items.
#40 dden4012, Jan 11, 2013
there's not a damn thing a politician can do to stop it.
Yes, but there
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anyone with more than 2 active brain cells also knows that any type of gun regulation is not the answer..... it has been irrefutably proven time and again that this is not a gun problem
IME all problems that are addressed by making inanimate objects the scapegoat continue to be problems, and often get worse after laws that criminalize the inanimate objects are enacted. The "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" ("terror" isn't even an object, only an undefined concept) are two prominent examples of such failures in recent history.
Until our society chooses to look at the real problem, the one that exists in people's minds, no positive change will be seen. It's sad to say, but IMO we're a society of cowards who are more interested in sweeping the root of the problem under the carpet, and keep on ignoring the larger issues.
unfortunately the ways to solve the problem will never occur......... and in this argument the guns always lose...... the ACLU trumps the 2nd amendment every time
To be fair, the NRA is far more involved, and has had far more success than the ACLU with this matter.
This time none of the parties that are large enough to get on TV are doing much more than repeating ridiculous talking points.
Being the aggrieved parent of a murdered child does not magically make that person an expert on firearms safety. In one particularly frustrating to watch TV interview, the parents of a slain child made a great point of describing how meticulous and cunning that the killer was. After they made this point in great detail, they immediately went on to claim that outlawing one certain accessory would have totally confounded the shooter to the point that he would have given up and not committed the crime. Really?
I blame the TV producers for putting those parents in that position in the first place. Even if the parents wanted to propose "solutions", the producers' job is to recognize why that's not fair to anyone.
I've read the Second Amendment, and don't see how it can be referring to anything other than a right to possess weapons of war, for the purpose of waging war against a corrupt government or outside invaders. It says nothing about hunting or home protection. Although the specter of war should scare people, the fact remains that the freedoms that we Americans enjoy came only after we resorted to warfare. Like it or not, being prepared to spill blood to protect our liberty may be necessary from time to time. And none of that has anything to do with people who go on shooting rampages.
Sooner or later, we'll need to face the fact that hunting and home defense by firearms aren't Constitutionally protected rights. If we as a society don't like that, we are free to amend the Constitution to reflect our 21st century desires. But unless and until that is done, we need to comply with the highest law in the land as it stands.
While this makes sense from a purely civil point of view, the problem is that the Second Amendment doesn't appear to be addressing peacetime issues.
If we look at the Second Amendment in what I believe is its proper context, registration of arms has grave military consequences because it gives an enemy too much information about the strength of our forces. I don't know the best way to reconcile our peacetime ownership of firearms with the letter and intent of the Second Amendment. And until I do, I would not be hasty in enacting laws that might do great harm in the long run, as well as being of dubious usefulness as a cure to what ails us today.
Rather than focus on firearms singularly, maybe we should be contemplating our responsibilities as "our brothers' keepers."
Ironically this Supreme Court may well be one of "all enemies, foreign or domestic" that the Second Amendment empowers us to take up arms to fight.
I truly hope that we can resolve the Constitutional crisis of Supreme Court members who abuse their office to practice partisan politics. But the fact remains that we now have a very big problem in that, and our Constitution simply doesn't address it.
sntaylor said: ↑
With tighter gun laws though, these people may be less likely to get hold of weapons that can kill many in short period of time with the pull of a trigger
This is a good time to remind all that in the US there is a mandatory 5 day "cooling off period" between the time of purchase and when the purchaser can obtain the new firearm. This has been the law for over 20 years.
I have one solution to this problem. Lets charge $100 per bullet! Problem solved, partially!
Not at one of the many, many, "gun shows" constantly roaming across the country, nor Craigslist, etc.
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In the not too distant past, soldiers used to make their own bullets, right in the middle of a war. The technology is relatively simple, and there's plenty of reloading equipment in private hands that could be used as templates to make more if they were banned. A $100/bullet law could never be enforced.
The bottom line is that banning things that some people are determined to do just plain doesn't achieve the desired effect, and instead sows the seeds of discontent. In other words, bans just backfire. They're worse than worthless.
The problem with that is that the Supreme Court flat out disagrees with you. The finest legal minds in the country have made their arguments before the finest legal minds in the country and have concluded that the Second Amendment does in fact protect the rights of private citizens to own guns.
That's a good point. But to be fair, there aren't nearly as many gun shows as that at any given time, and frankly the mind of a non-gun owner who's consumed with enough anger to kill isn't likely to be thinking straight enough to find these loopholes rapidly. I'm comfortable with this loophole.
If, after the public has had time to sober up and discuss the issues with clear minds, it's decided that vendors at gun shows have to abide by the same rules, I'm OK with that, although I know it's not going to be a panacea. I already have to jump through hoops to ship unloaded and dismantled firearms; by law a licensed firearms merchant must be involved at both ends. If I have to pay big money to inherit my uncle's hunting rifle, let everyone get soaked.


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There's So Much More to MLK Than 'I Have a Dream'
There's more to Martin Luther King and his ideas than one very famous speech.
Back in 2001, I was trying to get my eleventh grade U.S. history class to focus on a passage from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Unfortunately, I was not surprised when a student protested, "We already know about him. We're tired of hearing about Martin Luther King."
So I asked, "Okay, what do you know about him?"
"He had a dream," another student replied as others laughed.
I insisted that there was infinitely more to King and his ideas than one very famous speech. "Well, that's all they ever show us," someone complained.
"And that's why I'm trying to show you something new about him," I responded, showing—I hope—only a hint of my frustration.
I decided to put together a unit designed to help students penetrate the curtain of clichés and lies the corporate media have erected around Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to make him "safe" for public consumption. The bland projection of an image promoting moderate reforms and racial harmony obscures King's legacy of opposition to capitalist exploitation and violence at home and abroad.
My goal was for my students to be able to explicitly identify the ways in which King is portrayed in the mass media, and specifically, which of his ideas are communicated to the public. I also wanted them to read and discuss a range of King's ideas that are almost completely unknown to most of the public today and reflect upon why many of King's ideas introduced in this lesson are almost never referenced in the mass media or in U.S. history textbooks.
For example, like the students in my class, most students have heard about Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, but they rarely hear about his "Beyond Vietnam," address given four years later on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City. At a time when nearly 25 percent of American children live in poverty, King's words on the extremes of wealth and poverty still resonate today:
"… I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
Many students also don't know that corporate outsourcing of jobs overseas was also a problem nearly 46 years ago when Dr. King gave this speech. He went on to note:
"…A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: 'This is not just.'"
While many of my students have at least some knowledge of the Vietnam War, most have been surprised to learn that King vehemently opposed the war and called the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." Of course, this leads to a discussion of parallels with U.S. militarism in our time.
One student wrote,
"What I didn't know was what he wanted to do for Vietnam. He said the bulldozers destroyed their areas and the precious trees, poison their water and kill a million acres of crops. He said if 'we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing [clergy and laymen concerned] committees for the next generation.' I never heard this whole speech before and I thought it was cool that he wanted to help not just the African Americans but Vietnamese."
Others were equally surprised that King planned to lead a massive direct action Poor People's Campaign. One student explained that she "didn't know that his plan was to 'mobilize and train thousands of poor and allies to camp out [in front of the White House] with him until they help the poor.' He planned to group the poor together, no matter the color, race. I didn't know he wanted unity, well maybe I did, but I didn't know he fought for the justice of poor people of all color and race."
This student's closing sentence highlights a key difference between the simplistic racial harmony typically attributed to Dr. King and the militant, multiracial class solidarity he actively organized just before he was murdered.
I have taught a version of this mini-unit every year since developing it, revising it each time based on the previous year's experience. When I moved to middle school last year I adjusted the pedagogy and content for my eighth graders, who proved to be as receptive to King's radical vision as my eleventh graders had been. But the administration at my new school objected that "its place in the sequence of the curriculum and its relevance to the content standards is questionable," since California's eighth grade U.S. History framework formally concludes in 1914.
The administration either hadn't noticed the explicit connections the lesson—taught during Black History Month—made between struggles against slavery and Native American removal. Or maybe they didn't think these connections sufficiently justified two days of instructional time in the weeks preceding the state's high stakes standardized history test.
I cannot justify taking this material out of my curriculum and denying my students what may be their only chance to encounter Martin Luther King's radical vision that is as relevant now as ever. As one of my students wrote, "We never hear about King's other ideas because the people in power are afraid that we might try to take up some of King's ideas and make it a reality."
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A version of this post originally appeared at Zinn Education Project. For more lessons and readings for "teaching outside the textbook" about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visit the Zinn Education Project: http://zinnedproject.org/posts/tag/martinlutherking


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We have gotten well acquainted with Lipstick Queen Chinatown Glossy Pencils this year. They have been my go-to lip color when I don't feel like wearing a lot of color and/or dealing with a lip gloss. As I mentioned, it does a great job of giving me sheer color and keeping my lips moist.
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We think Stila really shined with its Smudge Pots this year, especially the Stila Kitten Smudge Pot. It's shimmery champagne goodness is the perfect eye base and brightener. It might be our favorite of the whole "kitten" family.
NARS Brumes Eyeshadow duo is meant for blue-eyed girls! It consists of the most smooth matte charcoal and shimmery blue slate colors, and makes for an amazing smokey eye that really pops.
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For as many mascaras as we try, Cover Girl Lash Blast seems to always have a home in our makeup bag. It delivers consistent results and plumps up our lashes effortlessly.
Now you tell us, what are your favorite eye and lip products of 2009?
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Cyprus: USCIRF Concerned Over Demolition of 200-Year-Old Church in Northern Cyprus
WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) expressed its concern over the demolition of the 200-year-old Greek Orthodox Chapel of Saint Thekla in the village of Vokolida, in the area of the Republic of Cyprus under the control of the Turkish troops and administered by Turkish Cypriot authorities. The church was demolished on May 2, 2011. USCIRF calls on local Turkish Cypriot authorities to commit to rebuild the church.
"Local Turkish Cypriot authorities have generally failed to take adequate measures to protect religious places of worship from vandals and looters." said USCIRF Chair, Leonard Leo. "Allowing the demolition of the Saint Thekla chapel exemplifies the ongoing disrespect and violations by Turkish troops and local Turkish Cypriot authorities for the religious freedom and heritage of Greek Orthodox and other religious minority communities in the northern part of Cyprus," continued Mr. Leo.
A USCIRF delegation travelled to northern Cyprus in February 2011 and saw firsthand the decrepit state of numerous Christian Orthodox churches caused by a prohibition on religious minority groups against repairing their places of worship.
The bulldozer operator and an employee of the construction company, Exsen, have been arrested, and the "special advisor for foreign affairs" to Turkish Cypriot leader Dervi' Ero'lu, Kudret Ozersay, has condemned the demolition. Reportedly, the Turkish Cypriot authorities" "department of antiquities and museums" was directed to reconstruct the chapel.
Mr. Leo concluded, "While USCIRF welcomes these actions, local Turkish Cypriot authorities must take proactive steps to protect the hundreds of other churches in northern Cyprus, including those that are in disrepair and are on the verge of collapsing. Also, local Turkish Cypriot authorities should ensure the expeditious reconstruction of the church, in consultation with the Church of Cyprus and in accordance with traditional religious and cultural architecture, as appropriate for a Greek Orthodox Church, as well as appropriately sanction the construction company. Finally, the Turkish military and local Turkish Cypriot authorities should eliminate restrictions on the access and use of their religious sites and places of worship in the north; this means putting an end to ongoing limitations imposed by requirements to submit written applications by minority religious communities and their religious leaders."
Further, as reported in USCIRF 2011 Annual Report, access to religious places of worship within and outside Turkish military bases and zones in northern Cyprus is seriously limited by the Turkish military and local Turkish Cypriot authorities. Religious minority communities and their religious leaders must submit applications through the UN and be given permission by local Turkish Cypriot authorities to administer religious services, including Divine Liturgies, at most churches in northern Cyprus. As recently as April 2011, the Bishop Christoforos of Karpasia was prohibited from administering the Easter liturgy at the Holy Temple of Saint Synesios in Rizokarpaso village. Also, the Bishop Porfyrios of Neapolis and Father Savvas Hadjionas were prohibited from celebrating the April 25th Divine Liturgy at the Holy Temple of Saint George at the Vatili village. The two bishops and the priest had submitted applications through the UN, in full accordance and in ample time, for local Turkish Cypriot authorities to review and approve their applications. However, the applications were denied without explanation.
USCIRF's 2011 Annual Report also recommended that the U.S. government should:
urge the Turkish government to allow religious communities living in the Republic of Cyprus and religious minority communities living in northern Cyprus access to (including rights to restore, maintain, and utilize) religious sites, places of worship, and cemeteries that are located within the borders of Turkish military bases and zones in northern Cyprus;
urge the Turkish government and/or Turkish Cypriot authorities to abandon all restrictions on the access and use of churches and other places of worship, including requiring applications for permission to hold religious services;
urge the Turkish Cypriot authorities and Turkish military to return all religious places of worship and cemeteries to their rightful owners; cease any ongoing desecration and destruction of Greek Orthodox, Maronite, Armenian Orthodox, and Jewish religious properties; and cease using any such religious sites as stables, military storage sites, vehicle repair shops, and public entertainment venues or any other non-religious purpose;
urge the Turkish government and/or the Turkish Cypriot authorities to permit the restoration of St. Andreas monastery and other churches located in northern Cyprus;
urge the Turkish government and/or the Turkish Cypriot authorities to return Christian religious iconography and other religious art that is in the hands of Turkish Cypriot authorities and that remain in churches to their rightful owners; and
urge the Turkish Cypriot authorities to provide a full list of catalogued religious artifacts and to allow access by UNESCO authorities, if UNESCO deems it appropriate and necessary to review such materials under possession of the Turkish Cypriot authorities and/or Turkish military.
USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission. USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives. USCIRF's principal responsibilities are to review the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom internationally and to make policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and Congress.
To interview a USCIRF Commissioner, contact Tom Carter, Communications Director at tcarter@uscirf.gov or (202) 523-3257.


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"WPR and critical realism"
Comment: This entry was prompted by two recent articles on health policy that offer the WPR approach as one of their adopted methodologies (Baum et al., 2018; Windle et al., 2018). The articles also juxtapose WPR with critical realism, the latter (Windle et al.) most explicitly. I wish to reflect on the implications of this juxtaposition.
In Baum et al. (2018) the authors ask "What's the Problem Represented to be?" of their selected documents in order to identify "what the authors of the document consider to be the problem/issue that needs to be addressed" (p. 6, Table 1, column 3). This adaptation of WPR does not follow the recommended analytic strategy of starting analyses from proposed solutions and focusing attention on the implicit problem representations within them (Bacchi 2009). Instead it uses WPR to identify rhetorical commitments to SDH/HE [Social Determinants of Health/Health Equity] and proceeds to assess these commitments using a "critical realist evaluation approach" (Baum et al. 2018: 8; see Danermark et al. 2002; Pawson 2003). The policy statements are to be assessed against "adopted frameworks for understanding optimal policy action on SDH/HE in Australia" (p. 5). While this research design does not create the opportunity to probe deep-seated epistemological and ontological assumptions within the policy documents – as per a WPR analysis – attention to policy "silences" and to how "problem conceptions" may have "delimited the objectives and strategies in ways which are favourable or unfavourable to action on SDH/HE", indicates some resonance with WPR thinking.
The Windle et al. (2018) contribution uses WPR to probe differing stakeholder conceptions of equity, specifically in relation to the implications of PHFs' [private health funds] involvement in PHC [primary health care]. This use of WPR to explore the understandings of policy advocates and policy makers is a fairly common adaptation of the approach, though not in line with the specific WPR goal of interrogating problem representations within policies and policy proposals (Bacchi 2015 Bacchi The Turn to Problematization). The authors note that they applied "two theoretical perspectives; realism and Carol Bacchi's (2009) constructionist approach". Usefully, for the purposes of this entry, they state:
"We recognise that the underlying ontologies of these two approaches have been regarded as incompatible (e.g. Guba & Lincoln 1994). However, in keeping with Cairney's (2013) discussion of options for multitheoretical approaches to public policy research, we did not seek to synthesise these two approaches but to apply them separately to illuminate different aspects of the policy environment in a complementary way. (Windle et al. 2018: 4)"
As stated, to achieve this multitheoretical analysis, Windle et al. (2018) ignore the "underlying ontologies" of the WPR and realism. Can this be done? Is there a cost? How does this discussion fit with earlier entries in the Research Hub on "criticality" (Dec. 3, 2018; Dec. 17, 2018) and "ontological politics" (Dec. 10, 2017)
In line with the first entry on "criticality" (Dec. 3, 2018) I would like to suggest the usefulness of pursuing this topic by asking about the political implications of contrasting theoretical stances. To what extent is it possible, or desirable, to adopt, or claim to adopt, the kind of "multitheoretical approach" advanced in these studies?
Returning to Annemarie Mol's (2002: 155) argument that research methods are forms of political intervention rather than ways to access "truth", and in line with a "performativity" perspective on "reality" (Bacchi and Goodwin 2016: 30), it is useful to think of research practices as creating realities. To quote John Law (2004: 143), "method is not, and could never be, innocent or purely technical" because it "unavoidably produces not only truths and non-truths, realities and non-realities, presences and absences, but also arrangements with political implications". The task then becomes reflecting on the specific realities and "arrangements" our research practices create.
Now I acknowledge that this task is not one likely to engage critical realists who postulate a reality existing "independently of social actors", while accepting that the interpretations of those actors can influence that reality (Gilson 2012: 35-36). Still, I think it worthwhile to consider if such a position itself has political effects that require consideration. For example, elsewhere, Malin Rönnblom and I (2011; RonnblomBacchiBudapest copy), alongside Law (2004) and Rowse (2009), reflect on the political fallout accompanying the assumed fixity of "nation-states" in much political science analysis. Law points out that, by deploying concepts such as "nation-state" unproblematically, analysts actually install them as "real". Hence, they participate in creating a reality of nation-states, reinforcing contemporary geopolitical arrangements.
This issue of the status assigned conceptual categories arises in commentaries on Kevin Stenson's (2008) "realist governmentality". Wendy Larner (2008: 23) points out what gets lost in Stenson's references to "white flight", the "knowledge economy" and "social capital" as "self-evident descriptors of the terrain being analysed" in his study of "community safety" in the UK Thames Valley region:
"These terms bundle together a set of presuppositions about the nature of the region, the causes of the problems to be solved, and the capacities of the subjects involved. They need to be denaturalized, made specific, and their governmental implications revealed." (Warner 2008: 23)
Put too briefly, in treating these "entities" as "real", the politics involved in their formation disappears from the analysis.
Elsewhere I (2016; Bacchi Problematizations Health Policy) have reflected on the political implications of other key critical realist premises. Specifically I make the case that the primacy accorded "mechanisms" that work through the "behaviours" of social actors can serve to promote a focus on individual responsibility for health outcomes, exacerbating the "lifestyle drift" that concerns so many health policy analysts (Bacchi 2016: 6).
There are also grounds, I suggest, for linking endorsements of methodological pluralism to critical realist premises. Specifically, critical realists assert a separate "real world" that can only be "known" through partial perspectives. As Margaret Archer et al. (2018) explain:
"Ontological realism is committed to the relatively autonomous existence of social reality…; however, our knowledge about that reality is always historically, socially, and culturally situated."
As a result, says Archer et al. (2018), "methodological pluralism" is deemed to be a "necessity".
It follows, I suggest, that endorsements of methodological pluralism are "not innocent, or purely technical" (see Law above), regardless of how benign they may sound. In this instance methodological pluralism forms part and parcel of a critical realist paradigm.
All of this highlights the importance of being clear about the ontological, epistemological and political commitments that accompany our research choices rather than simply using them in a "pick and mix" fashion (Whittle and Spicer 2008: 620). This argument does not imply opposition to the use of several theoretical perspectives (Scott 1991: 116); rather, it encourages careful reflection on the "unexamined ways of thinking" (Foucault 1994: 456) that inform our methodological choices. To this end I recommend that we ask of our research methods, "What's the Problem Represented to be?" (see Primdahl et al. 2018).
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