Category: Foreign Policy
Despite Cheney’s Absence, His Influence Looms Over Complex CIA Leak Trial
by Margie Burns | Feb 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityEditor’s note: Margie Burns is an investigative writer who has reported for us in the past on election fraud, Bush family post-9/11 war profiteering, and the right-wing neocons who promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Burns teaches at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and she has recently been sitting in at the federal perjury trial of Vice President […]
Reviewing the First 100 Hours | Spoiling for a Fight With Iran | Turn Down the Heat!
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsQuick Out of the Blocks—In a mode of efficiency unusual on Capitol Hill, especially among Democrats, the new majority passed their first 100-hour package of legislation in just 42 and a half legislative hours, according to the official clock on the House floor. Although the Associated Press counted 87 hours, it was hard to argue […]
The U.S. Can’t Bring Peace to Iraq, But Muslim Nations Can
by Dilip Hiro | Jan 1, 2007 | Foreign PolicyThe good news is that the report by the Iraq Study Group (ISG), entitled “The Way Forward: A New Approach,” has unleashed a public debate in the United States. Three out of four Americans responding to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll support its key policy recommendations. The bad news is that the bipartisan ISG, co-chaired by James Baker, […]
Do-Nothing Foreign Policy | Election Ammunition | Republican Airwaves
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2006 | Foreign Policy, MediaWanted: A Foreign Policy—Since the Bush administration decided to abandon its doctrine of pre-emptive military force in the wreckage and rubble of Iraq, conservative hawks have begun labeling President Bush “weak,” “soft,” and “Clintonian.” The cover of Time heralded “the end of cowboy diplomacy.” The establishment journal Foreign Affairs echoed this with “The End of the Bush Revolution.” All […]
America’s Curious Hatred of the United Nations
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2006 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsIn Max Frisch’s play The Fire Raisers, the respectable Herr Biedermann prefers to accept the palpably thin excuses that his tenants offer as they haul wagonloads of incendiary materials into his house, because that is easier than taking any action. Something like that is happening now. While the congressional and media types who magnify molehills of […]
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