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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 stemmed from the United States’ (US) decision to disarm Iraq from its rumored possession of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Due to the Islamic terrorist attacks led by Al-Qaeda on September 11th of 2001, the newly elected president of the US, George W. Bush, decided to prioritize … Read more
9.11.01 Terrorists attack on the U.S. by Patrick Lalley. Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers. Austin, Texas, 2002. 44 pages. Reviewed by Jasmine Powell. The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, is a topic that is near and dear to me because I was just 5 years old when this tragedy happened. On … Read more
War has shaped our society in many ways throughout American history. The Spanish-American war was a brief period that included a few battles. This war had a major impact that signaled to the rest of the world that the US was now a major player. The war demonstrated a US move towards imperialism. The … Read more
The Opinion Blog Western Media and it’s obsession with masking third-world terrorists Last week, Pakistan-based militants decided to pay India a visit for the second time this year by attacking our army camps. As an Indian, I have grown tired of watching our brothers lose their lives over senseless attacks. The Uri … Read more
To begin, on September 11, 2001 around 8:45am a terrorist attack against America would change all American’s life’s forever. Prior to this time 19 Militants from a known terrorist group named al- Qaeda hijacked four American Airline’s Boeing 767 airplanes. One plane landed in a field in Pennsylvania and another crashed into the Pentagon in … Read more
Does the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee provide effective oversight of the intelligence and security agencies? This essay will explore whether or not the Intelligence and Security Committee, perhaps more commonly known as the ISC is able to provide effective oversight of the intelligence and security agencies. It will be argued that in recent … Read more
The events that took place on September 11th, 2001, were some of the most egregious tragedies to ever occur on American soil. On this day, nineteen extremists from the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out attacks on multiple locations within the United States. Two of the planes were flown into … Read more
America as a country was, where people would debate, is coming off one of the best decades in the nation’s history the 1990s. It prospered as a nation with the economy growing an average 4% per year between 1992 and 1999. 1.7 million jobs were added per year and the unemployment rate dropped to … Read more
The beginning of what many believe to be the founding of “Anonymous” begins on a cold night of November 5th, 1604; when a man named Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament and King George the 1st as an act of rebellion and reform from the government’s oppression. Fawkes was involved in a radical … Read more
Throughout several years, Germany has been part of the United Nations. During this time, Germany has assisted with UN operations worldwide, including joint training with the United States. It is not only the fourth largest contributor within the UN, but is prominent in several UN peace missions, along with other international peace missions within … Read more
Across the European Union, several countries have completely banned the covering of the face in public places or have at least put a partial ban in place. Although these bans include any type of garment or headwear that conceals the face, this topic has become a more pressing problem, with international attention, because the … Read more
Gunpowder Book Review “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This line, from the Bhagavad Gita, ran through the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer upon seeing the world’s first atomic bomb explode in the Trinity test (Temperton), for he and the other scientists had realized what devastating potential they had released. And yet, … Read more
Guantanamo Bay and International Black Sites: The Legal Human Rights Violation Sites Introduction The land of the free and the brave, a nation that blacks out documents to the point of being incomprehensible in a court of law, the land in which a prisoner can be held without official charges for an indefinite amount … Read more
Historically, India and Pakistan have always had high tensions between each other. The reasons for this stem from the time India was under the control of European colonial powers, especially the British. India was considered to be one whole nation consisting of both what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh. From 1858 to 1947, though, … Read more
To express in a creative way what I have learned in Global Feminisms this semester, I have put together a collage of images. This collage is meant to represent what I have learned about privilege and power dynamics across the world. In the upper right quadrant of the collage, I used a Barbara Kruger … Read more
