60-Second Expert: Religion and Empire
American foreign policy is built on a deep foundation of Christian theology.
My Meeting with Ahmadinejad
The Iranian president’s religiously charged rhetoric is often incoherent and inflammatory, but is he really a threat to the United States?
The Theology of American Empire
Ira Chernus writes that Americans crave a foreign policy based on moral conviction. Neoconservatives have offered one version. The left must provide a different one.
Neo-Zionism, Religion, and Citizenship
Israel needs a new Zionism or it will lose all legitimacy, Gershon Baskin argues.
Monks Versus the Military
Kyi May Kaung looks at the religious roots of the protest movement in Burma today.
Divestment: Solution or Diversion?
The divestment movement from Sudan makes clear “indication of the failures in our intellectual culture”
Divestment: Ending the Genocide in Darfur
From rallying and letter writing, the Save Darfur movement is now taking a page from history and looking to divestment to end the atrocities in Darfur.
An Opium Alternative for Afghanistan
Poppies are the go-to crop for many Afghan farmers. Here’s a way to change that.
Art as Jujitsu
War grabs the headlines, and anti-war art grabs our attention. They do so with some of the same tools: guns, bombs, and body counts.
How to be a Good Friend (When You are 4,000 Miles Away)
Patrick Quirk explains the “friendship” of people who are seemingly worlds away: The Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil and their friends here in United States – the Friends of the MST.
The Post-Washington Dissensus
The Washington Consensus is dead. Here’s what needs to take its place.
The Art of Anti-War
At the Istanbul Biennale, antiwar artists shock and awe, but why is their work so alluring?
The Taiwan of Europe
According to the compromise proposal of UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari, the international community was to grant “supervised independence” to Kosovo, the largely Albanian enclave in southern Serbia.
Iran – Rationality in the Eye of the Beholder?
By confusing fiction with fact, rhetoric with reality, the United States is proceeding down a dangerous path.
The New Military Frontier: Africa
The battle for African hearts and minds will not be won if it’s clear that it is being waged more for the sake of U.S. strategic interests than African needs.
The Royal Treatment: Saudi Involvement in Iraq Overlooked
Iran is on the hot seat these days while the threat from Saudi Arabia is ignored.
A Welcome Page in the Newspaper
An informed public is the best safeguard for maintaining both our security and our freedoms.
Annotate This… President Bush’s Sept 13 Speech to the Nation on Iraq
In this edition of Annotate This… Stephen Zunes and Erik Leaver analyze Bush’s statements and offer an alternative interpretation of the situation on the ground.
After Petraeus
UFPJ Talking Points #52: Congress bedazzled, the people betrayed.
Burning the Ships? Iran and the United States
America is forcing Iran into a corner, from which it is only likely to emerge armed with a nuclear warhead — turning what is considered by many a nightmare scenario into a reality.
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