Politics & Society
Sub-topics: Government, Law, Social Rights, War & Peace
A Date That Will Live in Oblivion 
The New Yorker
|
What President Obama called the end of the combat mission in Iraq is a meaningless milestone, constructed almost entirely out of thin air, and his second Oval Office speech marks
...
|
More...
Iranian threat may be boon for Mideast talks
Washington Post
|
One reason for optimism may be the shared regional fear of Iran, which has only grown since talks broke off between Israelis and Palestinians in December 2008.
|
More...
Iraq security will decline further as US withdraws troops, says analyst
Deutsche Welle
|
After more than seven years, the United States has formally ended combat operations in Iraq. Since the invasion in March in 2003, more than 4,400 US troops have been killed, along
...
|
More...
'Independent' Iraq up to job as US ends combat - Maliki
The Daily Star
|
Arthur MacMillan Agence France Presse BAGHDAD: Premier Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday that Iraqs own soldiers and police were capable of defending a sovereign and independent
...
|
More...
Why Do Wars of Choice Last So Long?
Foreign Policy
|
When great powers intervene in minor countries, sometimes they win quick and fairly decisive victories.
|
More...
Obama's frustrating, unfocused speech on Iraq.
Slate Magazine
|
President Barack Obama's speech from the Oval Office Tuesday night was a strange muddle—a televised prime-time address that lacked a bottom line, a consistent theme, a clear road
...
|
More...
Discovery Channel evacuated
Washington Post
|
A man with an explosive device entered the Discovery Communications building in downtown Silver Spring on Wednesday afternoon and has taken a security guard hostage, Montgomery
...
|
More...
SA embassy in Mozambique closes amid protests
Mail & Guardian
|
The South African government has closed its embassy in Mozambique following violent riots in the capital Maputo, the SABC reported on Wednesday.
|
More...
Obama to Urge New Focus on Domestic Woes After Iraq
New York Times
|
WASHINGTON Praising the courage and resolve of the American troops in Iraq and saying the human and financial price showed selfless sacrifice, President Obama will declare tonight
...
|
More...
MyWire Knowledge
Prime Meridians
Oxford Ency of Maritime History
|
A prime meridian is an imaginary north-south line that divides the globe into an Eastern and a Western Hemisphere.
Willy Stöwer
Oxford Ency of Maritime History
|
(1864 -- 1931 ), German marine artist . The son of a captain and owner of a brig, Wilhelm Christian Friedrich Stöwer was born on May
...
Jimmy Carter
Oxford Companion to World Politics
|
the thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born in the small town of Plains, Georgia, on 21 October 1924 .
Walter Ralegh
Oxford Ency of Maritime History
|
(1552? -- 1618 ) , English courtier, seafarer, and writer . Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh), born about 1552 at Hayes Barton near Budleigh Salterton,
...
Tactics
Oxford Ency of Maritime History
|
Tactics are the handling of forces in battle. Their study in a maritime context includes
Citizenship
Oxford Companion to World Politics
|
The term citizenship, meaning membership in a political community, comes to us from the classical Greek and Roman conception of man as a political being.
