On AlterNet: foreign policy
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Moira Birss, AlterNet. November 16, 2009.
One of the principal concerns of the pending agreement had been the possibility of the bases’ use for aggression against neighboring countries.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. October 27, 2009.
America is broke. And the easy credit, phantom "growth" economy has been exposed for what it was: a credit scam.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 26, 2009.
Obama's national security adviser will keynote the inaugural conference of the moderate advocacy group J-Street, an alternative to Washington's hawkish Israel lobby.
Jeff Huber, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009.
There has never been such thing as a triumphant counter-insurgency strategy. Why are we deluding ourselves?
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2009.
Remember when Republicans would say that Eric Cantor is a credible, serious voice, who deserves to be taken seriously? Good times.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 23, 2009.
Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
American conservatives and Iranian hard-liners need each other.
Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy. June 15, 2009.
The May 11 numbers from Terror Free Tomorrow and The New America Foundation concluded, "Ahmadinejad Front Runner in Upcoming Elections."
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.
Israel would rather go down fighting than survive with a damaged sense of national pride. What would happen if concessions weren't so symbolic?
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 9, 2009.
Obama could use his enormous political leverage to cease Israel's illegal expansion into the West Bank. But will he?
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 6, 2009.
Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. June 1, 2009.
"Mitt Romney, eyeing a run at the presidency in 2012, is taking another step in fleshing out his foreign policy portfolio."
Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. May 26, 2009.
Obama doesn't lack leadership or nerve, which makes his dithering on the financial crisis and straddling on torture all the more bewildering.
Jacob Heilbrun, Huffington Post. May 22, 2009.
Cheney made clear in his speech that his war isn't against terrorism. It's against Obama.
Pepe Escobar, Tomdispatch.com. May 13, 2009.
Nothing of significance takes place in Eurasia without an energy angle.
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com. May 4, 2009.
A new world order is emerging from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with its center gravitating towards China.
Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet. April 30, 2009.
The French have taken to bossnapping -- "sequestering" their bosses while keeping them comfortable and safe -- to protest economic unfairness.
William Astore, Tomdispatch.com. April 20, 2009.
These are the questions on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan that Obama should be asked at his press conferences.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. January 30, 2009.
Most of Obama's key foreign policy appointments seem more committed to military dominance than international law.
Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. January 28, 2009.
Conservatives live in a world of seething aggression that most progressives can't even fathom.
Holly, Feministe AlterNet: Video. January 9, 2009.
He’s braver than me, that’s for sure.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. January 3, 2009.
No one in the mainstream media or government is willing to acknowledge America's sordid role interfering in Palestinian politics.
Nick Bromell , John Tirman, MIT Center for International Studies. December 11, 2008.
Obama will have to recover and renew the distinctly liberal principles and values embedded in the liberal internationalist tradition.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. December 2, 2008.
What alarms most international observers is Clinton's penchant for military solutions.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. December 1, 2008.
Hillary Clinton is our new Secretary of State -- will she continue the United States' hypocrisy on human rights and the rule of law?
