Category: Foreign Policy
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 […]
On Children’s Health Care and Iraq War Funding
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, Politics“I HAVE STRONGLY SUPPORTED THE S-CHIP as a governor, and I have done so as president,” said President Bush at the beginning of a hastily called press conference on September 20. He was lying. Most elected officials lie. Two books have documented the president’s programmatic deceit. Yet the lie President Bush told about his position […]
One Trillion Dollars? | Congress Kicks Back on War Funding | Hillary’s Iran Flip-Flop
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2007 | Foreign PolicyThe $50 Billion War—By 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s 2003 prediction that the Iraq War would cost $50 billion was recognized as wildly off the mark, even if Rumsfeld didn’t realize it. Rumsfeld is no longer handicapping war costs, but Steven M. Kosiak at the non-profit Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is. Kosiak pulled […]
When Anti-Terror Justice Runs Amok
by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityON AUGUST 15, PETE SEDA CAME HOME. He had written to the U.S. Attorney in Eugene, Oregon, advising him that he would arrive in Portland at 11:25 a.m. on Lufthansa Flight 425. I was waiting for Seda in the international lobby at the airport, as was Associate Press reporter William McCall. There was also a […]
A $20 Billion Solution to an Intractable Problem
by Robert Bryce | Sep 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsEditor’s note: Two years ago, while I was working on a book on Vice President Dick Cheney, a general who had worked closely with the then-Secretary of Defense Cheney during the first Gulf War described the harm Cheney had done to the Army in the second go at Saddam Hussein. Troop strength was reduced to […]
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