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Shape Up and Ship Out
April 2 - Goosing fear with menacing—and vague—portraits of global terrorist threats has worked remarkably well to buttress the Bush administration’s militarized foreign policy, especially since 9/11. This policy, as enshrined in the current National Security Strategy and articulated by National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, is based on the “ability to act militarily anytime, anywhere to defend our global interests.”
Though fear remains a powerful force in American politics, large majorities of Americans are no longer buying what the administration is selling. They are no longer equating the presence of violence-minded groups in Somalia and the Philippines with the idea of an America “surrounded in the world by violent extremists.” According to a Pew Research Center study, one-third of Americans believed in 2006 that military force can reduce the risk of terrorism, down from half in 2002. By John Cavanagh, Anita Dancs, Miriam Pemberton, published in In These Times.
Speech
Transforming the Jangling Discords Our World into a Beautiful Symphony
March 17 - Five years ago, the Bush administration launched what may become the greatest foreign policy disaster of this country’s 232 years of history. Today, five years later, we stand on the threshold of the 4,000th American killed, the 30,000th American tragically wounded, the millionth Iraqi dead, and a price tag that Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells us will top $3 trillion. By John Cavanagh.
Op-Ed
Trade Issues Are Not Just About NAFTA and the Rust Belt
March 3 - In the lead-up to the Ohio Democratic primary, Sen. Barack Obama is missing no opportunity to remind voters of one of President Bill Clinton's least popular legacies, the North American Free Trade Agreement. But the issue of trade concerns not only Ohio and NAFTA. It concerns all of us. By Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, published in The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC).