Copyright 2010 Hudson New York Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:49:59 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Hudson New York :: Writings http://www.hudson-ny.org webmaster@hudson-ny.org (Hudson New York) webmaster@hudson-ny.org en-us http://www.hudson-ny.org/1508/spain-cozies-up-to-cuba Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:00:00 EST Six Cuban political prisoners arrived in Spain in August, joining 20 others who came to the country in July after being released from prison by the dictatorship of Cuban President Raúl Castro. They form part of a July 7 deal struck between communist Cuba http://www.hudson-ny.org/1518/turkey-risky-transition Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:45:00 EST Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's Prime Minister and leader of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), has called for revision of the Turkish constitution through a referendum making it impossible for the secular judiciary to close down Islamist http://www.hudson-ny.org/1520/was-iraq-war-worth-it Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:30:00 EST Announcing the departure of the last U.S. combat troops from Iraq, President Obama made it sound like a defeat. "Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest – it is in our own," he said Tuesday night. "We have met our responsibility. Now, it is time http://www.hudson-ny.org/1525/turkish-daily-press-september-2-2010 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:00:00 EST The following are translations of excerpts from the Turkish press. WE ARE SUPPORTERS OF THE REPUBLIC Turkey celebrated Victory Day on August 30. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of Turkish Republic, said in 1924, "all the world should know that there http://www.hudson-ny.org/1524/turkish-daily-press-september-1-2010 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:30:00 EST The following are translations of excerpts from the Turkish press. WHAT KIND OF A PARTNER IS THIS? The United States administration regularly refers to Turkey as a "strategic partner." Yet the U.S. administration suspended the sale of arms to Turkey http://www.hudson-ny.org/1523/turkish-daily-press-august-31-2010 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:00:00 EST The following are translations of excerpts from the Turkish press. JOYFUL CELEBRATION [Turkey's] August 30 Victory Day was celebrated across the country with great joy. Turkey's Chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner signed the Special Register of http://www.hudson-ny.org/1522/goldstone Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:35:00 EST When President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas try to make peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the 600 pound gorilla in the room will be Richard Goldstone. Although he was not invited to the http://www.hudson-ny.org/1521/three-myths-about-the-peace-process Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:30:00 EST In the days leading up to the initial meeting between President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas, the op ed pages and blogs have been filled with opinion pieces about the dynamics of the upcoming peace process. Most of these analyses http://www.hudson-ny.org/1507/classic-islamic-view-of-jews-ii Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:30:00 EST In showing that the Arab-Israeli conflict is religious -- and not territorial -- based on texts from the book Kitāb al-Maghāzī ["The Book of Holy Raids"], which documents how the Muslim raids against the Jews in Medina and Khaybar in ancient Arabia were http://www.hudson-ny.org/1517/israeli-palestinian-direct-talks Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 EST For decades, Arab and Islamic leaders and governments have been inciting their people against Israel. That is the main reason why these governments and leaders would never be able to persuade their people to make peace with Israel. In this regard, the http://www.hudson-ny.org/1506/afghanistan-ineffective-government Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00:00 EST America's nation-building efforts in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq have all been criticized as being too ambitious and too America-Centric. Yet a good case could be made that the problem has not been that America has tried too hard to make these http://www.hudson-ny.org/1511/deceptions-cliches-policy Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:30:00 EST Several weeks ago at a conference devoted to anti-terrorist strategies, MI5 and FBI officials were in attendance, as were former terrorists. The meetings were open and well attended. yet when it was over, all I could recall was the reliance on clichés as http://www.hudson-ny.org/1516/turkish-daily-press-august-27-2010 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:00:00 EST The following are translations of excerpts from the Turkish press. I STAND AGAINST GENERAL AMNESTY "I cannot ignore the cries of mothers of soldiers (who were killed in the fight against terrorists) just because I have an authority to proclaim general http://www.hudson-ny.org/1514/palestinian-authority-silencing-opposition Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:00:00 EST As the Palestinian Authority is about to launch direct talks with Israel in Washington, its Western-trained security forces are preparing to silence the voices of political opponents and critics. The crackdown is seen as a blow to all those who were http://www.hudson-ny.org/1501/hugo-chavez-bolivarian-asymmetric-war Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:30:00 EST Jorge Verstrynge, a French-Spanish intellectual born in Morocco, who became the point of reference for for the Venmezuelan Armed Forces, is the guru of the South American Bolivarian asymmetric war. Verstrynge is the author of a 250-page book titled "La