Saving Darfur or Salvation Delusion?
It’s amid the U.S. government’s contradictory posturing and less-than-humanitarian geopolitical motives that the activist movement addressing Darfur operates.
Force Won’t Bring Peace to Somalia
The Bush administration has chosen yet again force over diplomacy.
Bush’s Dysfunctional Cuba Policy
The Bush administration’s Cuba policy has reached a dead end.
Poll: Fewer Guns, More Talk
FPIF’s new department War and Peace looks at the big picture of how to build a more secure world. In the debut article, Poll: Fewer Guns, More Talk, department editor Miriam Pemberton reports that the votes are already in and the winner is a new foreign policy.
The Taliban is Back
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bush administration, Iraq, Taliban, warlords, drug lords, opium, women’s issues, civilian casualties, corruption
Afghanistan: Five Years Later
The Taliban is back. And the United States is largely to blame.
Beware Empires in Decline
Common sense says that Washington wont attack Tehran. But columnist Michael Klare questions whether common sense is guiding Bush administration policy.
Lebanon Ceasefire
Talking Points for the Time-Crunched
The United States, the UN, and the Lebanon Ceasefire
A shaky ceasefire is in place in Lebanon. Will ambiguities doom the agreement?
Missile Defense Program Wasteful and Unnecessary
More money does not equal more security.
Breaking the U.S. Oil Addiction
Bush’s proposal on oil doesn’t go far enough.
U.S. Faces Moment of Truth on Darfur
The U.S. gets an opportunity in February to end the genocide.
Phoenix Rising? Will the Bush Administration’s Actions Move Aceh Toward Peace or a Continued Descent Into Destruction?
Aceh, so long isolated from international view by the Indonesian government and military, is now??tragically??at the center of world attention.
“Response to ‘Rethinking Iraq'”
The principles that emerge will guide our work in Iraq and be the gauntlet we will throw down in front of this administration.
Bush Administration Disasters Depicted as Triumphs
Even putting aside the many important legal and moral questions about the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, it has been a disaster even on practical terms.