Reading the Elections
UFPJ Talking Points #29: Bush will use these elections to claim legitimacy for his occupation of Iraq.
The Inauguration Speech: Consolidating the Empire
UFPJ Talking Points #28: The second Bush term will almost certainly reflect the same narrow standards for defining “freedom” as the first.
The Iraqi Elections
UFPJ Talking Points #27: Not every election is a legitimate instrument of democracy.
Oil for Food "Scandals" and the UN Call for Reform
UFPJ Talking Points #26: The need to reclaim the United Nations as part of our global mobilization against the ravages of empire.
Post-Election Disasters
UFPJ Talking Points # 25: Fallujah and beyond.
On the Eve of the Elections
UPFJ Talking Points #24: A John Hopkins School of Public Health report shows just how high the cost of the Iraq war really is.
Are the War and Globalization Really Connected?
One strength of truly progressive analysis is that it places what appear to be isolated events in a larger context
Afghan Elections: U.S. Solution to a U.S. Problem
Afghanistan will undergo the first presidential elections in the countrys history on October 9, 2004.
Debates, Duelfer, & Aluminum Tubes
UFPJ Talking Points # 23: We still need international law.
Who Are the Progressives in Iraq? The Left, the Right, and the Islamists
Iraqis must be valued for who they are, not as pawns in some partisan political agenda–left or right.
Afghanistan: Democracy Before Peace?
The Taliban are acutely aware that sustained donor interest and military support will not last forever; donor fatigue, shifting budgetary priorities, and waning donor attention are inevitable.
Attacks Against the World Court by Bush, Kerry, and Congress Reveal Growing Bipartisan Hostility to International Law
Indeed, the Bush administration, with strong backing from both parties in Congress, is now engaging in what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has referred to as the Sharonization of U.S. Policy.
"Saddam Hussein Lite" Takes Command
UFPJ Talking Points # 22: Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi has made it clear that democracy is not on his agenda.
The Hand-Over that Wasn’t: How the Occupation of Iraq Continues
It was clear from the start that Iraq’s sovereignty was in name, not in deed.
False Hand-Overs
UFPJ Talking Points #21: Actual control remains with the United States.