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.
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.
A Deluge of Bad Advice and Statistics
Conflict resolution will not occur until political and factional leaders re-absorb the lesson that each persons humanity, while unique, is of equal value.
US-UK Draft Resolution Designed to Give International Legitimacy to US Occupation of Iraq
UFPJ Talking Points #20: It credentials the US-dominated occupation forces as a UN mandated ‘multi-national force’, and endorses the Iraqi interim government as sovereign.
US Occupation of Iraq Remains Despite New Interim Government
UFPJ Talking Points #19: The interim government, like the Iraq Governing Council, is a creature of the US, not the UN.
U.S. Public Diplomacy: A Tale of Two Who Jumped Ship at State
Winning a worldwide war on terrorism is much more about overcoming cultural mindsets that set people apart from each other out of fear and ignorance than about celebrating the freedom of the American barbecue.
Bush’s Five Step Plan is Nothing New
UFPJ Talking Points #18: It is a recipe for continuing occupation, deaths of Iraqis and US soldiers, and destruction of Iraq.