[Note for Readers: To listen to a TomDispatch audio interview with journalist Anand Gopal about the difficulties involved in reporting from Afghanistan, click here.] Just when the Obama presidency-to-be was revving up to introduce its new national security "team" and...
Is it really possible that President-elect Barack Obama intends to break his campaign promise to "end the war" in Iraq, and keep US troops in that country well beyond the sixteen month timetable for withdrawal he advocated during the campaign? The answer, according to...
One of the biggest foreign policy challenges facing the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama will be reinvigorating what looks like a completely stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Repeated failures in the struggle for peace make clear that a...
A week after the massacre of more than 170 people by armed militants in Mumbai, US officials are scrambling to prevent the incident from blowing up into a full-fledged confrontation between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776 George C. Herring Oxford University Press 1040 pp. Today the United States is the essential nation, the unipower, the sole superpower, the country whose government, like God, worries if a sparrow falls to...
Having savaged each other for a year, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have now formed a rare partnership in power. Not since James Garfield chose James G. Blaine has a new president chosen his principal rival to be secretary of state. What does this tell us?...
Updated at 5:55 p.m EST, Dec. 5, 2008Violence tapered off dramatically for the prayer day. At least eight Iraqis were killed and another nine more were wounded. Several migrant workers were possible injured during eviction from a warehouse where they were being...
As a group of retired military leaders prepared to urge US President-elect Barack Obama to quickly put an end to the harsh interrogation practices inflicted on security prisoners, a new United Nations report charged that Iraqi authorities were committing "grave...
It is a commonly held belief that the current international order dates back to World War Two, with a slight adjustment for the fact that the Berlin Wall and Communism are no more. While it is true that 1945 and 1990 mark the starting points for many things that are...
Updated at 7:35 p.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2008At least 98 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 177 were wounded in today's attack. Two U.S. soldiers were killed during a suicide bombing and a British soldier died during a shooting incident as well. A significant...
