America's Newest Strategic PartnerLots of talk at your site (Gordon Prather and others) about what a dumb nuclear deal Bush made with India. How it doesn't safeguard anything since India’s military reactors are not part of the deal, only the "domestic" reactors...
Amid a new escalation in threats between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, some prominent Republicans are calling for the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to engage Tehran in direct talks. At the same time, indications that...
On Tuesday April 18, Chinese President Hu Jintao landed in the United States and, after a tour of a Boeing plant, made his official way, with all due pomp and ceremony, to the expectable "state banquet" in Washington… no, not at the White House but at the...
It's odd that just as the tide turns irrevocably against the U.S. occupation of Iraq – both here and there – the otherwise steady Scott Ritter panics. He recently posted a harsh critique of the contemporary U.S. antiwar movement on his blog. In it, Ritter...
"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete....
The drumbeat in some Washington foreign policy circles for "regime change" in Iran has striking similarities to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and is being led by some of the usual suspects – like the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen....
Review of Fools' Crusade by Diana Johnstone 317 pages, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2002 Books that have accompanied the 1990s Balkans wars have by and large been complete rubbish. There were, to be fair, some works worth reading. Yet the Balkans tragedy was...
Despite White House efforts to put an end to the controversy, the battle over the fate of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld shows little sign of abating. And the outcome, which is by no means certain, could well determine the trajectory of U.S. policy in key areas –...
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On April 12, Bloomberg News reported, "Iran, defying United Nations Security Council demands to halt its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days, a U.S. State Department official said. "Iran will move to 'industrial scale'...
