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In Council on Foreign Relations, Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor of CFR.org, interviews Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, CFR. Boot sums up the Marjah offensive as US troops ‘trying to take out probably the biggest remaining Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, which has been a safe haven not only [...]

Two million people live in this sprawling spread of squalor where sub-human standards of living, alone are a definite equivalent of human rights violation. Amnesty International’s report entitled The Unseen Majority: Nairobi’s Two Million Slum Dwellers also outlines the gross human rights abuses, along with the sordid poverty, that exist [...]