Category: Foreign Policy
Emerging Bipartisan Consensus: The Iraq War is a “Major Debacle”
by WS Editors | May 1, 2008 | Foreign PolicyExeunt Left—How to get out of Iraq? Ten Democratic candidates for the U.S. House have a plan. “A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq,” by Darcy Burner of Washington, Donna Edwards of Maryland, and eight other candidates can be described as the opposite of John McCain’s Hundred Years’ War plan. It’s also a departure […]
Selling a Military Budget That Will “Make the Rubble Bounce”
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2008 | Foreign Policy“A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” —attributed to Everett M. Dirksen, Republican who represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1950 to 1969 A WEEK BEFORE HE SLIPPED ON ICE and broke his arm and a month before the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, Defense Secretary […]
How Much Longer in Iraq? | The Military’s Lower Standards for Recruits | An EPA Whitewash
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2008 | Environment, Foreign PolicyRefrigerator Note—At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on January 17, committee chair Ike Skelton (D-MO) told Lt. General James Dubik and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mark Kimmitt that he wanted “some sense of a timeline” on Iraq. Iraq’s Defense Minister had told Skelton that Iraq’s army would be able to handle internal security […]
Republican Primaries Focus on Immigration | What’s Really Going on in Pakistan
by WS Editors | Jan 15, 2008 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsYear of the Immigrant—On the final weekend of the year both the New York Times and National Public Radio focused on the illegal immigrant as the bête noire of Republican presidential-primary politics. On the same weekend the Dallas Morning News declared “The Illegal Immigrant” its person of the year. The award has a considerable shelf life; it’s already evident that the […]
United Nations Opponents All at Sea Over Convention
by WS Editors | Nov 1, 2007 | Foreign PolicyEditor’s note: On October 4 Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Smith drew on all the anathemas of the far right to attack a treaty the committee was considering. “Did anyone expect the Endangered Species Act to become a national land use planning act? Did anyone expect Superfund […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety