What the Committee on Conscience Staff is Reading
Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935, edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg. McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and in 1933 became League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He sought aid from the international community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecuted there. This diary shows McDonald shuttling back and forth among key political and financial authorities in the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Latin America, and the Vatican; all the time meticulously recording his insights into their thoughts and motives. Frustrated by the lack of support for his work, McDonald resigned in protest in December 1935 (David Klevan).
Burundi: Children Behind Bars Suffer Abuse, Human Rights Watch Report. Children in Burundi who find themselves in conflict with the law face serious abuses in a criminal justice system that treats them as adults (Jackie Scutari).
"The Wars of Sudan", by Alex de Waal in The Nation, March 19, 2007 (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
Darfur: Assault on Survival--A Call for Security, Justice, and Restitution, by John Heffernan (Kadian Pow).
Several books I have been reading over the past couple of weeks:
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. Named one of the "Best Books of 2006" by Washington Post Book World.
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, by Peter G. Peterson.
The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- And Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright. Recent Pulitzer Prize winner in the general-nonfiction category. An interesting and informative account of the events leading up to the formation of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, looking into the personal lives of both counter-terrorism authorities in the US and founders of Jihadist ideology and Al-Qaeda.
(Max Wilson)
Burundi: Children Behind Bars Suffer Abuse, Human Rights Watch Report. Children in Burundi who find themselves in conflict with the law face serious abuses in a criminal justice system that treats them as adults (Jackie Scutari).
"The Wars of Sudan", by Alex de Waal in The Nation, March 19, 2007 (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
Darfur: Assault on Survival--A Call for Security, Justice, and Restitution, by John Heffernan (Kadian Pow).
Several books I have been reading over the past couple of weeks:
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. Named one of the "Best Books of 2006" by Washington Post Book World.
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, by Peter G. Peterson.
The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- And Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright. Recent Pulitzer Prize winner in the general-nonfiction category. An interesting and informative account of the events leading up to the formation of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, looking into the personal lives of both counter-terrorism authorities in the US and founders of Jihadist ideology and Al-Qaeda.
(Max Wilson)
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