Peace and Foreign Policy

With all this talk of freedom, it is important to ask the question, how are Afghan women enduring American-style freedom?

In the days and months ahead, the Labor party and the Israeli Left are at what could be an historical crossroad.

Entitled the Millennium Challenge Account, the administration says it will be doled out to countries like Senegal, Ghana, Bolivia, and Honduras if they institute “the rule of law,” as well as “sound fiscal policies.”

A shift in the nation-building strategy adopted by the international community in Afghanistan is needed.

With the country still mired in recession and polls consistently showing that the Republicans’ positions on such basic policy issues as the environment and the economy are decidedly unpopular, this should have been the Democrats’ year.

For the first time ever, the case of a violation of an ILO convention by the Government of the United States was taken up by the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards.

As Israel jumps from one self-made crisis to the next, the State of Israel itself is in an alarming condition.

The new U.S. “road map” for peace in the Middle East presented by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William J. Burns is no more than a placebo for consumption by both Palestinians and the world community

There are any number of regimes in the world today—China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, among others—that one can think of worst-case scenarios similar to or worse than those being brought forward regarding Iraq.

Bush’s misreading of the Cuban Missile Crisis illustrates what is wrong with the current administration’s policy toward Iraq.