Sunday, August 3, 2008

Regime Change in Iraq: Clinton the Author

Regime change in Iraq became a stated goal of United States foreign policy when Public Law 105-338 (the "Iraq Liberation Act") was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The act directed that:

"It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_change

'The Assassins' Gate': Occupational Hazards

Review by Fareed Zakaria of "The Assassins' Gate," by George Packer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/review/30zakaria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Obama Abroad

http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/articles.html

Fareed Zakaria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria

Big Guns: The world's biggest arms exporters

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?source=most_read&story_id=11825721

The Post-American World

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Post-American_World

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Using Evolution to Defeat Disease

Paul Ewald describes how we can approach disease management so as to use evolution against disease, by providing evolutionary incentives to reduce virulence or ...

e.g. Mosquito-proofing houses can reduce or eliminate malaria.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/259