Peter Certo is the Communications Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He edits its Foreign Policy In Focus and OtherWords services, contributes regularly to both outlets, and works with IPS experts to develop writing for mainstream and progressive publications.
He’s a former associate editor of Right Web, a project that monitors efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy, and helped coordinate the first annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
Even if the president led the NATO coalition from behind, he led his country into war from practically another planet.
A new study explores how U.S. foreign policy has fanned the flames of anti-Americanism in the Islamic world — and how the only way out is democracy.
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There’s too much blood on its phones, laptops, and tablets.
Members of the Bush administration are still trying to justify “enhanced interrogation.”
World Health Organization scientists want cell phones classified as a “possible carcinogen.”
Monologist Mike Daisey takes on Apple and challenges audiences to exercise their consumer power to effect change.
Reason must not be supplanted by guilt.
Just because U.S. influence is decreased in Egypt doesn’t mean, ergo, Iran’s is increased.
CATO report on defense cuts shows how libertarians come in handy on national security.
Budget priorities are finally getting a hearing in Washington — let’s not waste it.
New Republican governors are rebuffing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.
A British artist starts a conversation in America about a war in Iraq.
Repeal of DADT came with a catch.
Washington has not been very helpful in defusing tensions over the Yeonpyeong Island attack.
A new book by Caleb Rossiter explores the roots of the U.S. tendency toward intervention overseas.
In its final report on the sinking of its naval vessel ROKS Cheonan, the South Korean government puts the blame squarely on North Korea. But many questions remain unanswered.
The Deficit Reduction Commission surprises with recommendations to reduce the Pentagon budget.
After initial bucking, Tea Partiers soon hew to the Republican line on defense.
No amount of expensive innovation in arms can provide for a sustainable counterinsurgency operation.