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Tom Engelhardt, 06/05/12

Editor, TomDispatch.com

Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren't just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief.

Kumi Naidoo, 06/05/12

Executive Director, Greenpeace International

World Environment Day is a good time for taking stock but it is also a time to be inspired. There are many people who provide that inspiration and here are just a few I am proud to stand beside.

Jon Soltz, 06/05/12

Co-Founder of VoteVets.org, Iraq War Veteran

Buried beneath the news of the Wisconsin recall election and Republicans blocking equal pay for women in the Senate was perhaps the most significant news in the war on terror since the death of Osama bin Laden : Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone strike in the Waziristan region of Pakistan.

Michael Brenner, 06/05/12

Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

The president's "kill list" project flies in the face of "just war" precepts and ridicules its spirit. For the objective relegates human welfare to a status subordinate to the United States' national interest as measured in realpolitik terms.

Irene Finel-Honigman, 06/05/12

Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

The first half of June will be hot, nervous and slow. This is neither a weather forecast nor a traffic report but a commentary on the timeline facing the EU.

Tatiana Karapanagioti, 06/05/12

Greek Minister of Culture & Tourism

I never cease to be amazed at the contrast between the Greece that I read about in foreign newspapers and the Greece that I've known since childhood -- the Greece in which I live today.

Shirin Sadeghi, 06/05/12

Host, New America Now, ex-BBC and Al Jazeera journalist

It is your name, more than anything these days, that terrifies the American government and its various security branches.

MJ Rosenberg, 06/05/12

Political commentator

Averting the catastrophes that war with Iran would accomplish is simply the right thing to do. In fact, it is Obama's obligation to the American people. Resolving the Iran crisis is a win-win. And Obama can do it, if he wants to.

Nina Wegner, 06/05/12

Vice President, Vanishing Cultures Project

Khenpo Tenzin Sangpo is worried about the future of his community. There, in the protective folds of the Annapurna and Dauligiri ranges, he feels that the spiritual culture of his people is eroding.

Nancy Lindborg, 06/05/12

Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development

At a time of historic political transition, nearly half of Yemen's population is without enough to eat, and nearly 1 million children under the age of 5 are malnourished, putting them at greater risk of illness and disease. This is a humanitarian crisis that requires collective global action.

Malik Siraj Akbar, 06/05/12

Editor in Chief, 'The Baloch Hal'; Author; Contributing Writer

As violence against journalists with unadulterated impunity skyrockets, the honeymoon period of a relatively free press in Pakistan seems to come to an depressing end. Media at risk simply means democracy at risk.

Philip Seib, 06/05/12

Director, Center on Public Diplomacy, USC

Nearly everyone likes cultural diplomacy in principle, but some remain skeptical about its value. It is seen by many as soft power at its softest, safe and fuzzy, with more aesthetic rewards than diplomatic ones.

Stephanie Kennedy, 06/05/12

Journalist

The people of the slums have come to define a way of life and a culture that doesn't necessarily see them jumping at the opportunity to leave it all behind to pay rent and maintenance for a city-centre condominium.

Josh Ruebner, 06/05/12

National Advocacy Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

President Johnson was right to be concerned that Israel's military conquests would threaten the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace and degrade the human and national rights of Arab populations falling under its rule.

Jim Sleeper, 06/05/12

Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University

The Singapore venture has compromised Yale deeply not because Singapore is such an evil place in the larger scheme of things, but because Yale itself has been led so crudely, cluelessly, and prematurely into this place where it need not have gone.

Qanta Ahmed, MD, 06/05/12

Author, 'Land of Invisible Women'

As a practicing Muslim woman I wholly I believe there are strong arguments against permitting the wearing of a veil on the soccer pitch.

Daniel J. Graeber, 06/05/12

Senior Journalist, Oilprice.com

Shell announced plans to expand its oil sands operations in Alberta province by as much as 90,000 bpd and said similar efforts were under way to make the country's western coast a major export hub for liquefied natural gas.