Clinton in Indonesia: What She Missed
Hillary Clinton had nothing but praise for Indonesia on her recent visit. Somehow she missed genocide, religious intolerance, and a growing split between rich and poor.
Foreign Policy In Fashion
You can come to your own conclusion about the administration’s new clothes.
Neocons 1, Obama 0
Chas Freeman was on his way to head up the National Intelligence Council until the right-wing attacks began.
Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa
U.S. security requires that policymakers take a broader view of Africa’s security needs and a multilateral approach to addressing them.
Capitalism has Failed: Face the Facts
Refusal by the Obama administration to face dire economic facts will cause foolishness or inaction. The people who put him in office need to organize before it’s too late.
Thinking Big in Crisis Time
Japan has entered a season of grand strategising. Government commissions, business associations, leading foundations, and academic working groups are all developing blueprints for a new, 21st-century Japanese role in the world.
Film Review: A Waltz for the War-Weary
Change cannot happen until the prevailing, destructive narrative of war and occupation is challenged head-on, collectively shaking Israeli consciousness—and amnesia.
Iraq Policy Outlook 2009
Iraq remains a country occupied and at war. While violence has decreased and the government is stronger, fighting continues and the United States remains far too powerful in the country for it to be called independent and sovereign
Afghanistan Policy Outlook 2009
After eight years of war, what was all too commonly referred to as “the good war” has grabbed the attention of the public once more.
Radical Sound Activism
Ultra-red makes art at the speed of sound.
Film Review: A Waltz for the War-Weary
Waltz with Bashir might not change Israeli politics, but it is a powerful antiwar movie nonetheless.
Gaza: The Way Forward
The longer a comprehensive settlement is put off the more difficult it will be to achieve.
The War Online
The recent war in Gaza was also waged online, but with an important difference: People were talking to each other and sometimes even listening.
Poem: From an Iranian Mother to an American Mother
Iranian poet Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi faces down fear of war with a poem that explores the difference between coming to her home as a visitor and coming to her home as a soldier.
Don’t Move On Yet
Let’s say that President Barack Obama appointed me as his Karl Rove. My advice: Don’t move on.
Fashioning Resistance to Militarism
Runaway military spending meets runway anti-military clothing: a new way of looking at the fashioning of war.
Battle Over Bases
Rumsfeld had dreams of radically rearranging the U.S. empire of bases. Here’s what happened instead.
Contested Terrain: Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Plan and the Peace Movement
President Obama’s speech to Congress was a good first step, but we still have a lot of work to do to end the war in Iraq.
President Obama Has Things Backward in Afghanistan
He’s putting the escalation cart way out in front of the strategy horse.
Snapshots of the Economic Stimulus
An easy-to-follow breakdown of the far-reaching federal stimulus plan.
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