10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America | Der Bananenplanet. I 733 Votes by Mark Manson Imagine you have a brother and he’s an alcoholic. He has his moments, but you keep your distance from him. You don’t mind him for the occasional family gathering or holiday. You still love him. But you don’t want to be around him. I know that’s harsh, but I really feel my home country is not in a good place these days. I realize it’s going to be impossible to write sentences like the ones above without coming across as a raging prick, so let me try to soften the blow to my American readers with an analogy: You know when you move out of your parents’ house and live on your own, how you start hanging out with your friends’ families and you realize that actually, your family was a little screwed up? The point is we don’t really get perspective on what’s close to us until we spend time away from it.
So as you read this article, know that I’m saying everything with tough love, the same tough love with which I’d sit down and lecture an alcoholic family member. 1. 2. Why citizenship should not be the main focus of targeted killing - Opinion. A Justice Department white paper leaked to the press last month addressed the important question of whether, and under what circumstances, it is appropriate for the US government to target a US citizen. The notion that the United States is claiming authority to kill its own citizens has intensified the debate over the US' use of lethal drone strikes. But focusing too much on citizenship risks obscuring the larger consequences of targeted killing. Citizenship, as the white paper notes, is relevant to the constitutional analysis - in particular, to whether drone strikes comply with the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against depriving a person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
As the memo correctly concludes, US citizenship does not prevent the government from subjecting a person to military detention or trial. Citizenship, moreover, appears to make no difference from an operational perspective. At the same time, focusing too much on citizenship has its costs. Lessons to be learnt from the Iraq War - Opinion. After a decade of combat, casualties, massive displacement, persisting violence, enhanced sectarian tension and violence between Shias and Sunnis, periodic suicide bombings and autocratic governance, a negative assessment of the Iraq War as a strategic move by the United States, the United Kingdom and a few of their secondary allies, including Japan, seems unavoidable.
Not only the regionally destabilising outcome - including the blowback effect of perversely adding weight to Iran's overall diplomatic influence - but the reputational costs in the Middle East associated with an imprudent, destructive and failed military intervention make the Iraq War the worst American foreign policy disaster since its defeat in Vietnam in the 1970s. The UN hurt its image when it failed to reinforce its refusal to grant authorisation to the US and its coalition, despite great pressure from the US, to launch the attack. 'Vietnam Syndrome' Crime against peace Are there lessons to be drawn from the Iraq War? Why Do Americans Believe in Muslim Rage? In “The Roots of Muslim Rage,” an essay published in 1990, the historian Bernard Lewis describes a “surge of hatred” rising from the Islamic world that “becomes a rejection of Western civilization as such.”
The thesis became influential. It posited a crisis within a global Islamic community that made conflict with the United States and Europe inevitable. Academics and policymakers expanded on these ideas after September 11th, which brought urgently to the fore questions about how Al Qaeda’s radical ideas should be understood in relation to wider, diverse Muslim thought. (Lewis wrote an essay on the subject for this magazine in the autumn of 2001.) George W. Bush adopted some of the discourse in crafting his Global War on Terrorism. But the notion that a generalized Muslim anger about Western ideas could explain violence or politics from Indonesia to Bangladesh, from Iran to Senegal, seemed deficient. Crowds have protested since then in several capitals, at times violently. Navy SEAL writes about Bin Laden killing - Americas. Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?
In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon. The Matsigenka hunt for monkeys and parrots, grow yucca and bananas, and build houses that they roof with the leaves of a particular kind of palm tree, known as a kapashi. At one point, Izquierdo decided to accompany a local family on a leaf-gathering expedition down the Urubamba River. A member of another family, Yanira, asked if she could come along. Izquierdo and the others spent five days on the river. Although Yanira had no clear role in the group, she quickly found ways to make herself useful.
Twice a day, she swept the sand off the sleeping mats, and she helped stack the kapashi leaves for transport back to the village. While Izquierdo was doing field work among the Matsigenka, she was also involved in an anthropological study closer to home. “Can you untie it?” Lisa Belkin: The Benefits Of Spoiling Kids In America. For the sake of argument, let's explore the possibility that spoiling our children -- creating "brats" who are very comfortable being waited and doted upon -- is good for them. Hear me out. Then you can protest. Start with the premise that parenting is done in context. What in other species is instinctive -- meerkat parents assigning their pups mentors to teach them foraging skills; rhino mothers rarely leaving their calf's side while nursing; panda mothers abandoning one cub to better care for the the other one -- in humans is subject to timing, and research, and trends.
True, we seem to be basically hardwired to care about infants and to respond to their smiles and cries . In this week's New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert concludes that the American parenting style of the moment is " Spoiled Rotten " -- which is what her review of a recent spate of parenting books is titled. And then there was the boy who "was supposed to leave the house with his parents.
The culture changes. America’s Shameful Human Rights Record. Anula EU su liderazgo mundial al violar derechos humanos: Carter. De la Redacción Periódico La JornadaMartes 26 de junio de 2012, p. 24 El ex presidente Jimmy Carter acusó que el gobierno de Estados Unidos está violando de manera severa la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos y, con ello, perdiendo su autoridad moral a escala mundial. En un artículo publicado en The New York Times, titulado Un registro cruel e inusual, el ex presidente del país, fundador del Centro Carter y Premio Nobel de la Paz, escribe: La extensa violación a los derechos humanos en la última década ha significado un cambio dramático con el pasado, al calificar las políticas que han sido aprobadas para justificar el combate al terrorismo.
Revelaciones de que altos funcionarios seleccionan personas para ser asesinadas en el extranjero, entre ellas ciudadanos estadunidenses, son únicamente las pruebas más recientes e inquietantes de lo extensas que han sido las violaciones a los derechos humanos por nuestra nación, señala Carter.