Foreign Policy in Focus

On April 17, thousands of people all over the world will occupy the military industrial complex as part of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending.

One can’t help but wonder why more soldiers don’t snap under the pressure of serving multiple tours in Afghanistan.

A long-time foreign service officer describes the farces and frustrations of the Iraq occupation.

Recent murders in France, Florida, and California are all linked to a new enclosure movement.

Christianity was an equal-opportunity hater of both Muslims and Jews.

Nuclear-weapons states hold the rest of the world hostage to their desire to wield the ultimate destructive power.

What is the terrorist group trying to accomplish this year, and will the Iraqi government respond effectively?

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
– William Carlos Williams

The upcoming G20 summit in Mexico provides new opportunities for civil society to explore alternative answers to the G20s decisions, and to make their voices heard.

Over the course of the GOP primaries, Republican candidates have shown an unfortunate lack of mathematical knowledge with regards to the current state of Defense spending, voicing an interest in expanding an already excessive military budget.

The mainstream media allows politicians and pundits to lie about Iran without calling them out.

A representative of the Philippine parliament visits Syria to bring home overseas workers caught in the civil war.

Yukio Amano is the anti-ElBaradei.

The United States may soon find that it can’t “have it both ways” by arming Saudi Arabia and maintaining Israel’s qualitative military advantage.

There is a growing feeling that the crisis in the Gulf can only be solved by a diplomatic grand bargain between America and Iran, much like Nixon’s normalization of U.S. relations with China.

Asia is spending more on the military and selling more weapons to the world.

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has emerged as the region’s leading advocate for drug policy reform.

Led astray by conventional wisdom about Iran? We’re here to help.

It’s man versus butterfly in this poem about the competing demands of nature and economy.

The Mexican poet speaks of his deep involvement in nature and literature.