Bush Administration Foreign Policy Team in Disarray

As the Washington, DC area recovers from effects of Hurricane Isabel, President George W. Bush keeps trying to divert the potential “perfect storm” forming from the combination of the constant stream of bad news coming out of the Middle East and growing d

To Occupy or UNoccupy?

It is a measure of how stark the impinging reality is that Washington even considered returning to the UN for yet another new and stronger resolution.

Control of Oil Revenues

While widespread ransacking was happening in Iraq after Baghdad fell, the U.S. moved swiftly to secure the country’s oil facilities.

Jakarta Peace Consensus Update: Where is the Antiwar Movement?

In the four months since U.S. President George W. Bush triumphantly declared the end of “major hostilities” in Iraq, the occupation has become ever more untenable and no less illegal by the day. Where are the members of the global antiwar movement?

de Mello’s Delight

The Bush team has pursed its agenda despite a growing belief by elected officials, and much of the public, that the administration has gone off the deep end–and is taking us with it.

A Return to the UN?

The current proposal under consideration calls for the creation of a UN-endorsed multilateral military force to join the U.S. occupation force in Iraq.

Hexagonal Headache

It is a testament to the absurdly low expectations attached to the diplomatic abilities of both North Korea and the United States that pundits have avoided the obvious conclusion concerning the recently concluded Six-Party Talks in Beijing.

Quagmire? What Quagmire?

The further the U.S. and the world move from the fall of Baghdad on April 9th, the more it seems that the administration is correct: Iraq is not a quagmire. It is really a black hole.