Liberals and progressives alike tend to dwell on how stingy U.S. development aid to the third world - particularly Africa - has become. And they are right - for a nation as wealthy and militarily strong as ours, we can and should do more. Particularly when you factor out foreign policy bribes to Third World […]
Let’s hope that Bush and Powell’s visit to Africa will bring about closer media attention to the problems facing the continent and also real action on the part of the administration and Congress to addressing these problems. There are several reasons to be cynical about it. First, as has generally been discussed, the administration tends […]