Missing From the NIE: Afghanistan

The media missed the real story regarding the National Intelligence Estimate of the global terror threat. It's not what's in the declassified executive summary of the report – Iraq, which was unavoidable – it's what's absent from it – Afghanistan, where...

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Normalizing Relations
With Japan

Shinzo Abe has become the youngest postwar prime minister of Japan. He is seen as a reformer, following the lead of his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. Of greater significance to the U.S. and the rest of world, Abe also is a nationalist dedicated increasing his...

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Uneasy Partners: Pakistan and the United States

There is nothing "normal" or "ordinary" about Pakistan, from the rationale for its creation to the fact that it played a crucial role in the last epic battle of the Cold War, the expulsion of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. It played an equally...

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Poll Shows Iraqis Weary of Violence, US Presence

Iraqis – especially the majority Shi'ites – are increasingly angry and frustrated about their situation and impatient for U.S. troops to leave, but most do not believe their country will fall apart, according to a major new poll [.pdf] released here...

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A Desperate Push

The Empire Tries to Browbeat Serbia Last week, representatives of the Contact Group met in New York and agreed with the chief UN negotiator on Kosovo that the talks concerning the status of the occupied Serbian province were stalled. The Group – a self-appointed...

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Opening With an Apology

I'll probably be sorry for suggesting it. But maybe it really wasn't such a good idea for the CIA to help the British overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected, secular prime minister of Iran, back in 1953. Maybe we should have been more careful about...

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Bizarro Conservatism

Our parent organization, the Randolph Bourne Institute, is named after an early 20th-century liberal famous for, among other things, his trenchant observation that "war is the health of the State" – a phrase that takes on quite a different connotation in our...

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I’m a Veteran, and I Support/Despise This War

The 2006 U.S. congressional elections are heating up, along with a proliferation of television ads featuring U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I'm a veteran," a series of plainclothes men and women say into the camera in an attack ad...

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