Old Articles of Interest
"Four Loopholes in US Anti-Terror Laws"
An integral component of the United States war on international terrorism is to cut off funding to terrorists and their supporters. This special report examines the deficiencies in US anti-terror laws. It demonstrates how US anti-terrorist policy is being undermined in the Palestinian Authority (PA) areas, and documents examples in which recipients of US money are involved in anti-American activities and terror promotion. ...
"Comments and Observations: Conference on the Politics of Humanitarianism in the Occupied Territories"
In what was ostensibly a quasi-academic conference, the Van Leer Institute sponsored a meeting that appeared, by its title, to tackle the difficult question of humanitarianism as it pertains to the occupied territories...
"Transnational Progressivism: The Future of the Ideological Civil War Within the West"
Nearly a year before the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, wire service stories gave us a preview of the transnational politics of the future. It was reported on October 24, 2000, that in preparation for the UN Conference Against Racism, about fifty American nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) sent a formal letter to UN Human Rights Commissioner...
"The Human-Rights Lobby Meets Terrorism," by Adrian Karatnycky and Arch Puddington
In this article, Adrian Karatnycky and Arch Puddington discuss the response of human-rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, to the terrorist attacks of September 11. They look at how most of the human-rights community has treated the question of terrorism in general in recent years, and also how it has treated the US...
"The NGO Scramble: Organizational Insecurity and the Political Economy of Transnational Action"
Scholarly assessments of transnational actors are largely optimistic, suggesting they herald an emerging global civil society comprising local civic groups, international organizations (IOs), and international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)...
