Conn Hallinan

Iran is not the only major challenge to the NPT regime.

With the U.S. military under siege in Iraq, and polls running heavily against the White House’s Middle East version of Vietnam, are military strike plans on Iran just bluster and so much talk?

Changes in Israeli political leadership and prospects for a settlement.

Gaza Withdrawal: Prelude to a new intifada?

Renewed U.S. military presence in Latin America.

History repeating itself?

Why would India jeopardize its relations with Iran while it is engaged in high stakes negotiations with Teheran over a $22 billion natural gas deal, and a $5 billion oil pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan?

The cost to small towns of the war in Iraq.

Tucked into the upper stories of the Himalayas, Nepal hardly seems ground zero for the Bush administration’s next crusade against ??terrorism,?? but an aggressive American ambassador, a strategic locale, and a flood of U.S. weaponry threatens to turn the tiny country of 25 million into a counter-insurgency bloodbath.

The push to replace soldiers with machines is impelled by an over-extended military searching for ways to limit U.S. casualties, a powerful circle of arms manufactures, and an empire-minded group of politicians addicted to campaign contributions by defense corporations.

At a time when the U.S. is desperate for an international bailout in Iraq, why would the White House go out of its way to alienate allies?

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh??s recent revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

While the U.S., India, and Great Britain have sharply condemned the Feb. 1 coup by King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal, the policies of those three governments vis-à-vis the ongoing civil war in the Himalayan nation must share considerable blame for the present crisis.

When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China??s modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics?

If you want to understand the antagonism between Beijing and Tokyo, you have to start in Washington and, in particular, Washington State.

With less than a year before the next election, the recent scandal over a sweetheart deal to lease air tankers from the Boeing Corporation underlines the enormous and disturbing power the arms industry exerts on American politics.

The Bush administration seems to be applying its “for us or against us” anti-terrorism formula to trade policy.

That is a lesson the government of Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might heed as it continues to occupy the West Bank and Gaza at a cost that threatens to destroy the Israeli economy, impoverishing both occupiers and occupied.

One thing to keep in mind about the current push for peace between Israelis and Palestinians is that Ariel Sharon is one of the most consistent political figures in the Middle East, and he keeps his word.

The freshly minted U.S.-India Institute for Strategic Policy is an organization to watch and one that may help reveal the next target of American power: containing China.