House 2022 National Defense Authorization Act Amendments on Arms Sales and Security Assistance
Jordan CohenThe House is set to vote on theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022. Prior to the structured Rule for the act, there were a total of fifty amendments that, if passed, would directly impact weapons sales legislation. Overall, these bills are divided into five broad themes: congressional power, increased monitoring and reporting surrounding human rights violators, weapons sales to the Middle East, weapons sales to counter Russia, and weapons sales to counter China.Readers should examine the2020 Arms Sales Risk Index for our latest data on risks associated with the weapons sales proc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Mass Movement
I ' m not talking about social protest, but the long-running crisis on the planet of displaced people. While war and civil conflict are one cause, many populated areas of earth are becoming uninhabitable because of climate change -- and that in turn is an underlying cause of much of the conflict. The horrific Syrian civil war had its origin in climate change, as agricultural regions dried up and masses of people moved to cities. The war in Yemen as well is driven by water shortage. But the problem is far more widespread.This Kos diary by Pakololo is a good resource and gets you past any paywalls. So what is going to h...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 23, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Biden Says He ’s Ending Forever Wars. He Isn’t.
John GlaserPresident Biden is playing hide the ball with America ’s Forever Wars. In his public pronouncements, he depicts his administration as diligently rolling back the numerous post‐9/11 U.S. military misadventures. He delivered a number of speeches declaring an end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan and specifying a timeline for a withdrawal of U.S. troops by September. In April, the administration reached a tacit agreement with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al ‐Kadhimi to officially conclude the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. “There will be no U.S. military forces in a combat r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Congressional Options to Advance Peace in Yemen
An enduring peace in Yemen will require addressing Yemen ' s most immediate needs while working in parallel to develop its economic, political, and security institutions. U.S. Congress has the tools to help shape this effort and could play an important role in ending the conflict and bringing stability to Yemen. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 29, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Daniel Egel; Trevor Johnston Source Type: blogs
Pathways Toward Peace in Yemen: National Reconciliation or a'Phased' Approach?
Any potential pathway to an enduring peace in Yemen could take decades to recover from the economic, political, and social costs of this civil war. Our phased approach could require patience from the Yemeni people and a robust and enduring commitment from the international community. But war has brought Yemen to this point, and there are few remaining options. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 5, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Daniel Egel; Trevor Johnston Source Type: blogs
Teachers Quit Due to Stress, Peace in Yemen, America's Middle Class: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how stress leads teachers to quit their jobs, U.S. strategy in the Middle East, America ' s shrinking middle class, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
All you need to know about waterborne diseases
Waterborne diseases are contracted through exposure to contaminated water including drinking water, water used in food preparation, and swimming water.
They can be caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Below is a partial list of waterborne disease pathogens, their microbial classification, and their resulting illnesses.
Classification
Microorganism
Disease
Bacterium
Campylobacter spp.
Campylobacteriosis
Bacterium
Escherichia coli
E. Coli Diarrhea
Bacterium
Legionella pneumophila
Legionnaires’ Disease
Bacterium
Salmonella enterica
Salmonellosis
Bacterium
Salmonella typhi
Typhoid fever
...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 14, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Microbiology News Tips Source Type: blogs
21st century outbreaks
Which diseases have generated the highest number of cases from outbreaks during the first two decades of the 21st century? In this blog, we can use GIDEON’s data to find out.
‘Disease outbreak’ is a scary term for many, but every year we suffer dozens, if not hundreds, of localized and international disease outbreaks across the world. While these outbreaks are always significant to those affected, they rarely generate headlines, and can sometimes go unnoticed outside of the Healthcare Industry.
An “outbreak” is often defined as an increase in case numbers for a particular disease in a defined place and...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 3, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Top 10 most prominent diseases of the 21st Century
Which diseases have generated the highest number of cases from outbreaks during the first two decades of the 21st century? In this blog, we can use GIDEON’s data to find out.
‘Disease outbreak’ is a scary term for many, but every year we suffer dozens, if not hundreds, of localized and international disease outbreaks across the world. While these outbreaks are always significant to those affected, they rarely generate headlines, and can sometimes go unnoticed outside of the Healthcare Industry.
An “outbreak” is often defined as an increase in case numbers for a particular disease in a defined place and time. ...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 1, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Yemen's Chaos Creates a New Opportunity for the Biden-Harris Team
More than one-quarter million Yemenis have been killed in the nation ' s civil war. And 150,000 children have died from starvation and left Yemen on the brink of collapse. The foundations of peace must be Yemeni-led, but there is much that the new U.S. administration could do to support the process. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 24, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Daniel Egel; Trevor Johnston Source Type: blogs
Reflections on “The American Perception of Substate Threats”
Christopher A. PrebleEditor ’s note: In 2014, Cato releasedA Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security, an edited volume of papers originally presented ata Cato conference the previous year. In each chapter, experts on international security assessed, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security, from nuclear proliferation and a rising China, to terrorism and climate change.As part of ourProject on Threat Inflation, Cato is republishing each chapter in an easily readable online format. Even six years after its publication, much of the book remains relevant. Policymakers...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
The reification of data
Every day you are reading reports of the number of new Covid cases and deaths in your state, the U.S., other countries and the whole world. You need to know that these numbers are false. They may give an indication of trends, but they are not the actual number of cases and deaths.Let ' s start with cases. The definition of a " case " can vary, but for the most part the numbers you see are the number of positive PCR tests. This is obviously a function of how many people get tested and the sampling frame for those tests. Right now in the U.S. we are not testing a random sample of the population anywhere. We are largely only ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 9, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
April 2, 2020 Edition.-----Again COVID-19 totally dominates the news – while some other topics are being sadly ignored – think the wars in Yemen and Syria among others.In the US the catastrophe in cases and deaths has arrived and sadly the USA has become a world beater in the worst possible ways. Trump has seriously underestimated this issue to say the least.In t he UK a full lockdown is now underway – led by an infected PM! A week of two yet before we know if it will make a real difference.It is becoming clear we are facing a full blown calamity in the developing world – which may come back to bite us as we just m...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 1, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Democrats' Search for a New Foreign Policy
A. Trevor Thrall andJordan CohenCato will be hosting a panel discussion on January 28,The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy: 2020 and Beyond, featuringKate Kizer from Win Without War, Loren DeJonge Schulman from the Center for a New American Security,Dan Nexon from Georgetown University,Adam Mount from the Federation of American Scientists, andMena Ayazi from the Alliance for Peacebuilding.To provide some broad perspective for the discussion, we are sharing a slightly updated version of an article wepublished in the November/December issue of the German magazine,Internationale Politik. In it we use speeches and campaign...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
With Airstrikes in Iraq, Trump Draws America Further into Middle East Conflict
John GlaserThe U.S. airstrike that killed the Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani is a dangerous and reckless act that is almost certain to trigger an escalation of violence in the Middle East, including the possibility of retaliatory Iranian actions against U.S. forces in the region.There is also likely to be backlash from Baghdad. The bombing killed Soleimani as well as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an important Shia paramilitary leader in Iraq ’s Popular Mobilization Units with close ties to Iran. (Note: Iran’s increased influence in Iraq is a direct consequence of the U.S. invasion in 2003 and the subsequent decisions of t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 3, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
