Washington Still Refuses to Learn an Obvious Lesson
With Osama bin Laden’s demise, it’s high time that our leaders realize that short-term gains from alliances with tyrannical regimes aren’t worth the long-term problems they foster.
Film: Crisis In The Congo; Uncovering The Truth
Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth exposes the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century. The film locates the Congo crisis in a historical, social and political context. It unveils analysis and prescriptions by leading experts, practitioners, activists and intellectuals that are not normally available to the general public. The film is a call to conscience and action.
Cakewalk to (Baghdad) Tehran
Many of the same people who led the push for regime-change in Baghdad now have their sights set on Tehran.
Wanted: Real U.S. Leadership
The Arab Spring requires a consistent approach to the shared clarion call of freedom throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
On the Eve of Obama’s Middle East Speech
President Obama has the chance to completely retool U.S. policy in the Middle East in the context of the Arab Spring – but it doesn’t look likely that he will.
Is Assassination Justice?
Phyllis Bennis: Message sent to Arab world was unilateral power, not justice.
Jihadi Butch Cassidy
We have, once again, played right into Osama bin Laden’s hands.
Justice or Vengeance?
In the midst of the Arab Spring, which directly rejects al-Qaeda-style small-group violence in favor of mass-based, society-wide mobilization and non-violent protest to challenge dictatorship and corruption, does the killing of Osama bin Laden represent ultimate justice, or even an end to the “unfinished business” of 9/11?
No-Doctrine Obama
Ultimately, the administration is unlikely to use Libya as a precedent for intervention anywhere else.
U.S. Silences on the Arab Spring are Deafening
The Obama administration has hardly said a peep about the need for democracy in Saudi Arabia or the other oil-rich states of the Gulf, even as those regimes are cracking down on the small but growing number of democracy activists in their midst.
Libya: It’s All about the Oil
When there’s no oil, there’s no intervention.
U.S. Denies It Is Trying to Undermine Assad
As anti-government protests in Syria showed no sign of abating, the U.S. State Department Monday denied that it was seeking the regime’s ouster.
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark: What it Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks
Facing the challenges of a world at the edge — from Japan to the Greater Middle East, from a shaky global economic system to weather that has become anything but entertainment — the United States looks increasingly incapable of coping.
Diagnosing a Military-Industrial Complex
What’s wrong with me, Doc?
‘Stability’ a Fig Leaf for Dictatorship
Hillary Clinton speaks highly of democracy in the abstract but quickly loses enthusiasm as the reality approaches.