Foreign Policy in Focus

One county dared to stand up to the military-industrial complex. The complex has fought back.

The prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas reflects the power of occupation and the power of changing circumstances.

One legacy of attacking Libya is 20,000 surface-to-air missiles gone missing.

Economic deprivation planted the seeds for the bloom of totalitarianism that led to World War II.

The United States may mount attacks on Pakistani soil, but the Pakistani military actually invades Afghanistan.

With the Arab uprisings reconfiguring the regional political landscape, the time has come for America to regain the trust and goodwill of the Islamic world. The clock is ticking fast.

Could Iran possibly believe that its nuclear program is advanced enough to deter American military retaliation for the alleged assassination plot?

Commenting on the three women at the forefront of peace for years who were recently honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, on a PBS Newshour segment.

The United States alleges an Iranian plot to trade money and drugs with a Mexican cartel in exchange for assassinating Saudi and Israeli diplomats.

On the Walk of Shame, poets visit the embassies of Burma, Yemen, and Turkmenistan to read aloud the poems that can’t be read inside those countries.

A poem about genocide read in front of the Burmese embassy on the Poetry Walk of Shame.

Were unsafe construction practices used to build Iran’s first nuclear energy facility, Bushehr?

They occupied their squares to defeat tyrants; we occupy our squares to defeat the tyranny of business as usual.

A look at the news after the memorialization of 9/11 reveals an America that systematically attempts to erase its fingerprints from world events.

Nuclear hawks turned the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into an excuse to expand the nuclear weapons complex.

Jobs certainly thought differently, but the company he created acted the same as the competition.

“To die of hunger is to be assassinated.” Alberto Morlachetti

When we build those bases on that global field of screams, when we send our armadas of drones out to kill, don’t be surprised if the rest of the world doesn’t see us as the good guys or the heroes, but as terminators.

Bono’s new ONE campaign to help with famine in the Horn of Africa ignores the political causes of the crisis.

When it comes to a nuclear strike, the American public is considerably less impressed with preparedness measures than with prevention.