Peace and Foreign Policy
To build peace, we must dislodge the economic and political foundations of war. IPS believes that a just foreign policy is based on human rights, international law, and diplomacy over military intervention.
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Africa Activists Denounce Bush’s “Malign Neglect”
U.S. disregard for Africa has become malignant, with increasingly deadly consequences for Africa.
An Annotated Overview of the Foreign Policy Segments of President George W. Bush’s State of the Union Address
What would God think of a government that supplies more weapons, training, and logistical support to more dictatorships and other human rights abusers than any other? If freedom and liberty are indeed the will of God, the foreign policy of the Bush admini
State of the Union
There were no surprises in President Bush’s address to Congress, except maybe the firm statement that within a month our country will be at war.
Pump Up the Pentagon, Hawks Tell Bush
While public opinion polls show that most of the U.S. public is concerned about the economy, hawks in the Bush administration see another problem as more urgent: the Pentagon is poor.
A Good Business
If one adds up all the costs of war beyond the $355.5 billion military budget, the U.S. spends in excess of $465 billion each year for defense, or $1.2 billion a day.
The Delay in Council-Decision Making Gives Anti-War Movement More Time
UFPJ Talking Points #4: We must maintain unrelenting pressure on the basis of “the world says ‘NO’ to war.”
The Prospects for al Qaeda
Once again, we are faced with a situation in which all the emphasis in the war on terror is focused on pre-emption and capture–beating the terrorists into submission. Meanwhile, there is scarcely any focus on the reasons for the groundswell of support fo
The Time-Out Method Doesn’t Work
For the past two years, the Bush administration has treated North Korea like a child throwing a tantrum.
Bush Working to Ensure Sharon’s Re-election
Israeli voters will be facing perhaps the most crucial vote in their nation’s history between the right-wing incumbent prime minister Ariel Sharon of the Likud Bloc and the more moderate Amram Mitznaa former general and mayor of Haifafrom the Labor Alig
War is not inevitable
UFPJ Talking Points #3: Despite the very dangerous troop build-up in the region, we still have the capacity to stop the Iraq war.