by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Buddhist mobs have been killing Muslims in Myanmar. Where’s the outrage? Why aren’t all major Buddhist leaders, those supposed paragons of compassion, loudly, unequivocally, calling for a halt to it? Why aren’t Buddhist practitioners world wide...
by Martin Bee | Dec 3, 2012 | Monitor
December 3 With Military’s Push, Biofuels Can Grow Andrew Holland/The Christian Science Monitor US Senate voted Wednesday to restore the Defense Department’s ability to buy biofuels. As the largest petroleum user in the world, the US military says its dependence...
by Samantha Power | Nov 9, 2012 | Monitor
Yesterday’s announcement that President Obama will become the first U.S. President to visit Burma marks an historic step in the United States’ engagement with Burma. In the past year, since President Obama first noted “flickers of progress” in...
by Kirk Talbott, John Waugh and Doublas Batson | Oct 26, 2012 | Monitor
By: Kirk Talbott, John Waugh and Doublas Batson The linkages between democracy, natural resources, and peacemaking as Burma seeks a way to wind down a half-century long complex of ethnic, political, and religious strife.
by lundry | Aug 23, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Islam, Media, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry Another case of Muslim minority persecution, this time in Burma, has gotten attention in the last several weeks. Islamist extremists are using the incident to incite jihad, stoke religious violence, and criticize the Indonesian government. For the past...