THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt page 6 previous back to page 1 Dreams of Regional Transformation The Iraq war was not supposed to be a costly quagmire. Rather, it was intended as the first step in a larger plan to...
Suddenly, I'm an 'Islamic Fascist' Hi Jonathan, I am a Pakistani Muslim woman – I live next door to Walthamstow. I have spent the last few years trying to convince my Muslim neighbors that we must respond to the rubbish that ill-educated gangster imams have been...
Is anyone really surprised that Israel violated the cease-fire? Here, after all, is a nation that has defied the United Nations on 321 different occasions, refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and proudly proclaims its own lawlessness. Only a fool, or...
Late last month, a fortnight into Israel's war against Lebanon, the Hebrew-language media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a "missile-trapping" steel net that can shield buildings from...
James Bamford, author of A Pretext for War and a recent article in Rolling Stone on the neoconservative push for war with Iran, talks to INN's Lenny Charles in this video interview.
Since everybody and his brother is claiming victory in the Lebanese war, I thought we might try to establish some rational criteria for judging the outcome. At first, Israel announced that its objective was to destroy Hezbollah. This was later modified to weaken...
NEW DELHI - The "oil-for-food" program approved by the United Nations for Iraq before its invasion by the United States-led "Coalition of the Willing" in 2003 has had an improbable and belated impact thousands of miles away. Through a convoluted...
ARBIL, Iraq - Hanan's family could never have thought three years ago of leaving Baghdad. They had lived for years in peace with their Shi'ite neighbors in the ethnically mixed Shaab district. All that changed the morning they saw a letter in their courtyard giving...
NEW DELHI - The controversial United States-India nuclear cooperation agreement has overcome a major domestic obstacle in the form of a threat by India's major opposition parties to press for a Parliamentary resolution which would have tied the Manmohan Singh...
According to ABC News, US intelligence officials have told the White House there is "a real possibility" that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [DPRK] is preparing to conduct an underground test of a nuclear weapon. In particular, the Koreans have been...
