Category: Foreign Policy
Cindy Sheehan’s Texas Vigil
by Tom Engelhardt | Sep 1, 2005 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityDuring our short August break, we were transfixed by the televised images of Cindy Sheehan and her vigil near the president’s home in Crawford, Texas. We asked our friend, the political observer Tom Engelhardt, to sum up this development for our readers. Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com website, is the author of The End of Victory […]
Cindy and the Media | Talk of Iraq Withdrawal in Congress | It’s Getting Hot in Here
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2005 | Foreign Policy, MediaWhat Took the Media So Long?—Cindy Sheehan is not a recent phenomenon, even though the mainstream media are treating her as such. She began speaking out after her son Casey’s death on April 4, 2004, forming a small organization, Gold Star Families for Peace, and contributing to the antiwar website LewRockwell.com. In March, The Nation featured Sheehan on […]
The Senate Showdown | Russia’s Loose Nukes | Ford Moving Up? | Counting Votes in Miami
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2005 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsFilibusters Aren’t Busted—At least not yet. When Senate Democrats proposed a cloture motion to stop debate on, and block the confirmation of, the controversial John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, it passed 56 to 42. That was 4 votes short of the 60 needed under Senate rules to end the […]
In the Bush Administration, Treaties Ain’t Sweeties
by Patricia Jurewicz | May 1, 2005 | Foreign PolicyHe’s never encouraged Washington’s payment of United Nations dues, supported American participation in the International Criminal Court or suggested the strengthening of international disarmament treaties. So it was no surprise when President George W. Bush nominated Undersecretary of State John Bolton to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. If John Bolton, a […]
Home From the War: The 200-Year Struggle of Returning Soldiers for Their Rights
by Paul Dickson, Tom Allen | Apr 1, 2005 | Books, Foreign PolicyThe next time you see one of those yellow “Support Our Troops” ribbons on a passing car think about what happens after the soldiers come home from war. They become veterans, and supporting veterans usually costs more money than a supposedly grateful nation cares to spend. This seems to happen after every war, but now […]
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