Talisman Energy has recently issued a "corporate social responsibility report," a document that purports to inform Talisman investors about the realities of oil development in southern Sudan. It does nothing of the sort, ...

The New York Times today reviews a new book that depicts all too persuasively American failure to respond to genocide. Of Samantha Power's study ("'A Problem from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide"), the Times ...

Dow Jones Newswires reports on a new investor research product that will identify publicly-traded companies doing business with terrorist nations. The purpose of the product is to identify investment risk that has previously ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC is beginning a new "Working Group" on Sudan. CSIS is the K Street "think tank" that has already offered one seriously deficient account of the ...

While the UN World Food Program and the United States have harshly condemned the recent bombing of civilians and humanitarian aid efforts in Akuem (southern Sudan), Canada and European nations have remained characteristically ...

The difficulty of securing a commitment from the Khartoum regime to engage in good faith peace negotiations to end Sudan's civil war can be gauged from the shocking headline of a UN World Food Program press release. Dated ...

Without strong, resourceful US leadership in the Sudan peace process, military action will relentlessly continue to increase in the oil regions of southern Sudan. Talisman Energy seems intent on obscuring this basic reality, ...

Talisman Energy recently reiterated its commitment to stay in Sudan (UPI, April 3, 2002). Further evidence of this commitment is Talisman's recent recourse to European debt markets, an effort to avoid dealing with the ...

The National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum has yet again deliberately bombed civilian and humanitarian targets in southern Sudan, killing innocent children, wounding many others, and sending deadly shrapnel into the ...

There is no shortage of desire for a just peace in Sudan among people of goodwill everywhere. And there is widespread appreciation that a window of opportunity to achieve such a peace now exists---however slight, however ...