Bush Skimps on Communal Rights and Responsibilities
The president’s shift in Iraq will be a climb-down disguised as a step forward.
Bush to Iraq: More War
With no victory in sight in Iraq, the Bush administration is casting around for another magic word to obscure its dismal policies.
Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine
A top British military official has called for troop withdrawal from Iraq. Does this mark the beginning of the end of the special military relationship between the White House and 10 Downing Street?
Oil or Atoms?
In the upcoming U.S. elections, will voters be eyeing the price of gas or the gathering storm over Iran?
Bush at the UN: Annotated
At the UN, George W. Bush praised democracy and diplomacy in the Middle East. Stephen Zunes gives you the real story.
No Surprise in Bush’s ‘Emergencies’
President Bush has yet another supposed “emergency” on his hands. This time it’s illegal immigration.
Reclaiming the City on the Hill
If the budget represents, in Joseph Schumpeter’s phrase, “the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies” then the Bush administration’s current budget reflects the interests of those who would trample on the public-spirited vision of Puritan John Winthrop’s image of the “city on a hill.”
Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy
Bush’s October 6 address illustrated his desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq.
Redefining Security: A Budget for a New Generation
As leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere countries gather in Quebec City, Canada in April 2001, President George W. Bush hopes that the third Summit of the Americas will mark a step toward fulfilling his fathers dream of creating a free trade area stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
Drug Trafficking & Money Laundering
Drug profits moving through the U.S. financial system are estimated to be as high as $100 billion a year.
Libya: More Balance Needed
Under Qaddafis rule, Libya has made impressive gains in health care, education, housing, womens rights, and basic social services.
Ratifying Global Toxics Treaties: The U.S. Must Provide Leadership
The international community has, at long last, recognized that there are some toxic chemicals that are just too dangerous to produce, use, and storeput simply, too dangerous to have on the planet.
U.S.-Russia Nuclear Reductions
After the attacks of September 11 and the post-attack rash of anthrax mailings, renewed attention is being paid to the risks posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD) falling into the hands of additional states and nonstate actors.
Multilateral Debt: The Unbearable Burden
For most of the worlds impoverished countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the status of IFIs as preferred creditors assigned them by the Group of 7 (G-7) industrialized countries.
Bush’s State of the Union Address
UFPJ Talking Points #13: Omissions, Denials, and Lies.