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Friday, November 19, 2004
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  • Building Blocks

    In his book After Jihad, Noah Feldman remarked that democracy could be cultivated in the Middle East. Since then Feldman has served in Iraq as a constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority. Having returned he has now published What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building, and analyzes the legacy we are leaving behind in Iraq.

A Cry for Help

A Cry for Help John Marzulli reporter for Brooklyn federal court for the Daily News on the Mohamed Alanssi case Douglas Farah, terror finance consultant and author, Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (Broadway Books, 2004), says money for terror is still being raised in the United States
» Douglas Farah

Buckle Up

Scott McCartney Travel Editor for the Wall Street Journal, also writes the "Middle Seat" column on the potential strike by the flight attendant's union and problems in the airline industry
» Wall Street Journal

Nation Building

Noah Feldman Assistant Professor of Law, NYU Law School, and former constitutional advisor for to the Commission to Iraq in Bagdad, author, What We Owe Iraq (Princeton University Press 2004) After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar Straus & Giroux) on war and the ethics of nation building
» After Jihad

Square Roots

Bonaventure Ezekwenna, Executive Director of Africans in America an organization dedicated to ending slavery in the United States, on slavery in the US and winning a Union Square Award
» Union Square Awards
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Aarti Shahani, co-founder of Families for Freedom an organization devoted to immigrants affected by detention and deportation, on dealing with deportations and receiving the Union Square Award
» Union Square Awards

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Michael Moore on Brian's 20th Anniversary

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