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New study ties injected birth control to risk of HIV transmission

By | 10.06.11 | 6:50 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

A study that could have far-reaching implications on birth control regimens around the world has found an increased risk of HIV transmission for women on injection hormone therapies with an HIV-positive partner.

Increase in HIV-specific criminalization in Africa associated with USAID

The sudden up-tick in HIV-specific laws in African countries has been tied directly to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Housing Works, an organization that advocates for the rights of HIV-positive people in the U.S. and abroad, reports on their blog Wednesday that USAID funded a 2004 Action More…

DOJ Blames Six-Year Trial Delay on Detainee, Cites National Security

By | 12.21.09 | 6:00 am

Late on Friday, the Department of Justice quietly filed an unclassified, heavily redacted version (see below) of its argument why a New York federal court should not dismiss the case of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an accused conspirator in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and More…

The Week’s First Fake Controversy

By | 07.20.09 | 3:46 pm

You almost have to admire Steve Krakauer’s ability to turn this CNN interview with President Obama into a “possible wise Latina moment.” The president, in Africa, thought out loud about being an African-American, and how he knows African-Americans who come to the continent and feel more American than More…

National Security and Old-Fashioned Natural Resources

By | 06.11.09 | 2:38 pm

Here’s Sharon Burke, vice president of Center for a New American Security, who just got effusive praise from former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), and who’s presenting a panel on those old atavistic security questions about natural resources. The idea of climate change, for instance, as a national security issue has More…

Of Cardboard and Cow Farts

By | 04.10.09 | 2:32 pm

And the winner is … a cardboard box, followed closely by cow farts and evaporating tiles!

The results of Forum for the Future’s green design competition are in, and first prize goes to the Kyoto Box, an aluminum foil-lined cardboard box that makes use of the greenhouse effect More…

Miss Universe and Madonna, Go to Bagram!

By | 04.09.09 | 10:28 am

Yesterday, an unlikely message popped up in my inbox, from the U.S.-African Chamber of Commerce. Responding to Madonna’s latest controversial forays into the messy world of African adoption, Chamber President Martin Mohammed makes a plea in her favor, arguing that “African nations should welcome high profile celebrities seeking adoption as More…

A Window Into Obama’s Foreign Policy

By | 11.14.08 | 6:00 am

In April 2007, as the United States was enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the genocide in Darfur.

“A collective shame” was what Susan More…