We can finance the war with Iraqi oil, said Paul Wolfowitz. By year's end, Lindsey was gone, back, in Ronald Reagan's phrase, "testing the magic of the marketplace." And the cost of the Iraq War? It has passed $1 trillion. So Lindsey is worth listening...
The revolution is relying on Western air power, without which it cannot succeed and with which the degree of success is not yet clear. Importantly, the Libyan revolution has large effects. It creates large displacements of civilians, alters economic ...
America has no future vision superior to anyone else's. Ths condition of this country's economy, culture, and politics hardly suggest that American leaders have had a superior vision or have implemented it. America stands no taller than any other...
One has needed a score card to keep up with the twists and turns of the situation in Libya and what will follow over the weekend is still unclear. My point is while we wish the people of Libya and their color revolution victory over ...The Arab revolution: Of rocks and hard placesThe GuardianFactbox: Arabs respond to U.N. resolution on LibyaReutersLibya And Bahrain: A Tale Of American HypocrisyVoxyMonthly Reviewall 276 news articles »...
I'm guessing (and I have no direct evidence of this) that the exiles have been central to coordinating the rebellion in Libya. No, I'm not saying that they were fomenting revolution – Libyans were likely ready for revolution, given the nature of their...
No one who studies the global economic issues today would forfeit this nation's ability to conduct monetary policy through a central bank. ...
I deployed twice to the killing fields of Iraq, and I was completely oblivious to the fact that the war was based on total lies. ...
1 issue in American politics over the past couple of weeks. To me, the issue is a no-brainer. First of all, it is clearly a matter for state and local ...Translating America: New York Mosque Controversy About to ExpireThe Epoch TimesObama under pressure in test that could define presidencyIndependentJudeo-Christian/Muslim “clash of civilizations”Canada Free PressNJ.com (blog) -Los Angeles Times -New York Timesall 1,596 news articles »...
We applaud two courageous men, President Barack Obama and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, for defending the Muslim center even at considerable ...Mosque furor: America is based on religious freedom and tolerancePatriot-NewsSo Does Anyone Have an Opinion on This Ground Zero “Mosque” or What?411mania.comFinley: Don't fight NYC mosque; join itThe Detroit NewsDakota Voice -Wall Street Journal -Business Times (subscription)all 5,816 news articles »...
Congress knows that these twin issues are the third rail of American politics. He who touches it dies. 14. Oldsters are the dominant bloc within the Tea ...
... with New York Times war correspondent Dexter Filkens, a generally excellent reporter who distinguished himself for his reporting on the Iraq War, ...Demonizing Iran: US Media Continue Beating War DrumsOpEdNewsThe Middle East: What Americans need to understand and generally don'tForeign PolicyResponse to “Iran threatens world peace”The Collegian — University of RichmondThe Business Insider -Examiner.com -Forbesall 969 news articles »...
Next, in 2004 he co-wrote a peachy little book justifying American wars in the Middle East and advocating more of them, with another AEI neoconman Richard...
There is nothing morally wrong with the politics of revenge. Getting back at a politician for voting the wrong way was basic to early American politics.
But these tempests are nothing compared to last week's electoral storm that greeted President Barack Obama's first anniversary in office. ...Mary Dejevsky: It is too soon for Obama to succumb to defeatismIndependentObama too big to fail - First year as president (Analysis Part 1)Jamaica Gleanerall 110 news articles »...
The global financial crisis, in addition to global terrorism, swine flu, etc., has become one of the state's best mates, used as a rationalization and...
"Global-warming Political Science" is the product of an affluent society that allows a spoiled rich brat like Al Gore to get a Nobel Prize for telling ...Disturbing Trends in What Americans Believe about Climate ChangeSustainablog (blog)Global warming: a death in the family?Examiner.comTens of Thousands of Canadians Demonstrate Calling for Action on Global WarmingCanada NewsWire (press release)Telegraph.co.ukall 34 news articles »...
The Iraq war continued to consume American and Iraqi lives but the democracy and peace that were promised never came. After the administration's incompetent ...Needed: a Left Opposition to ObamaTikkunScience: Obama 4X Worse Than "Worst President Ever"Jawa ReportAfghan War Likely to 'Absorb' Potential Savings From US Withdrawal ...FOXNewsDallas Morning News -Center for Research on Globalization -Antiwar.comall 74 news articles »...
He has expanded the war in Afghanistan, equivocated on Iraq, and bombed Pakistan, contributing to a humanitarian disaster there of unspeakable proportions. As for transparency, aside from the state secrets nonsense, his domestic policy of expansive ...
This will require a substantial strengthening of the international financial institutions, particularly the IMF. This assumes that the crisis of global financial institutions in some significant way hinges on a bunch of third-world countries run by ...
Just look at their record in the run-up to the Iraq war: from an imagined "mushroom cloud over New York" to WMDs to a "cakewalk," then to "mission accomplished" and Iraqis greeting US troops with flowers. Iraq turned out to be anything but what these ...