John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 484 pp. The collective shrieking and caterwauling has been loud and continuous. How dare these two scholars – John...
The great 19th-century Tory Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli once remarked there were three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. It is a dictum the Bush administration has taken to heart when it comes to totaling up the carnage in Iraq: If you don't like...
"Putin's Hostile Course," the lead editorial in the Washington Times of Oct. 18, began thus: "Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Moscow is just the latest sign that, more than 16 years after the...
Why is the U.S. subsidizing and supporting murder, rape, and systematic ethnic cleansing in the Horn of Africa? The reason: it's all part of our strategy for "victory" in the "war on terrorism." The village of Kamuda – a remote outpost in the Ogaden region of...
This article is adapted from Norman Solomon's new book Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State. We keep hearing that Iraq is not Vietnam. And surely any competent geographer would agree. But the United States is the United States – still...
Amid rising bilateral tensions with Turkey and strong White House pressure, the Democratic leadership of the US House of Representatives is expected to set aside a controversial resolution recognizing as a "genocide" the deaths of as many as 1.5 million...
The George W. Bush administration's shift from the military option of a massive strategic attack against Iran to a surgical strike against selected targets associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker...
The policy of isolation towards Cuba is a bad hangover from the Cold War that the United States can't afford to nurse any longer, foreign policy experts and Cuban-American political activists argued this week, both because of its unpopularity and a variety of concerns...
Updated at 11:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 19, 2007At least 22 Iraqis were killed and 22 were wounded during violence that was extremely light — even for the Friday prayer day when few reporters are working. Also, two American servicemembers died in separate incidents. An...
The Bush administration is attempting to soothe the Turkish government's apoplectic reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee's label of "genocide" on Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians, which occurred almost a century ago. The administration fears that...
