Nov 17, 2003
President George W. Bush’s November 6 speech before the National Endowment for Democracy emphasizing the need for greater democracy and freedom in the Arab world, while containing a number of positive aspects, was nevertheless very misleading and all-too characteristic of the longstanding contradictory messages that have plagued U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Oct 16, 2003
Look for the Bush administration to push its “Proliferation Security Initiative” (PSI) during the president’s October trip to Asia.
Oct 16, 2003
UN Security Council Resolution 1511 is highly unlikely to secure any goals it was advertised to solve.
Oct 16, 2003
The new Security Council resolution does nothing to change the fundamental problems of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Oct 15, 2003
The drive for money for the Iraqi occupation is now the only game in town.
Oct 10, 2003
Cancun could lead to trade talks that actually bring about fair trade, and the benefits to both the developing and the developed world that have long been promised.
Oct 3, 2003
The sound of silence is often deafening when statesmen speak, but in the case of George. W. Bush it is the deafness that is almost as stunning.
Oct 3, 2003
“If you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you’re just as guilty as the terrorists. And the Taliban found out what we meant,” U.S. President George W. Bush told military personnel in Fort Stewart, Ga., on Sept. 12.
Oct 2, 2003
Information emerging from the intelligence community indicates that the Iraq Survey Team looking for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq is coming up empty.
Sep 24, 2003
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
Sep 23, 2003
Pakistan’s national defense strategy centers on protecting the country’s nuclear weapons capability from a threat by one or more of three states that are currently working very closely – the United States, India and Israel.
Sep 22, 2003
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.
Sep 17, 2003
While widespread ransacking was happening in Iraq after Baghdad fell, the U.S. moved swiftly to secure the country’s oil facilities.
Sep 15, 2003
An ad hoc office under U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as the key base for an informal network of mostly neoconservative political appointees that circumvented normal interagency channels to lead the push for
Sep 11, 2003
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?