Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
America needs a separation of Oil and State. Big Oil money self-servingly fuels America's short-sighted policies promoting continued oil dependence, putting our nation at long-term risk ... internationally, environmentally & economically. In total disregard for the collective interest of the people of this country & world, oil lobbyists threaten the future viability of our planet. Human rights abuses, oil wars & global warming are all consequences of our oil addiction. See http://priceofoil.org/
Pass pending Senate Bill H.R. 808 to establish a cabinet level Department of Peace, to assemble our most experienced and greatest minds in peacebuilding, & to fund & implement ideas for solving conflict before it escalates into violence. The 2007 budget for our Dept. of War (aka Defense) was $439,533,000,000; imagine the positive impact of those same dollars under a Dept. of Peace. We must implement a national strategy to end the global problem of violence. Learn how at www.thepeacealliance.org
