Administration Still Doesnt Recognize the Main Factor in the War
Vowing to “Stay the Course” the President made clear that the administration still doesn’t recognize that the U.S. occupation is driving the resistance.
Can the Iraqi Insurgency be Neutralized?
Body counts are important to remind us of the sacrifices made so far, but they are not a measure of success.
Congress Begins to "Change the Course" in Iraq
Falling in line with the peace movement and public opinion, the Senate has finally taken a small but a symbolically important step to challenge President George W. Bush’s policy in Iraq.
A Constitution of Trouble
Despite an announced “compromise” both the procedure that produced the Iraqi constitutional draft that will be voted on October 15, and its constitutional substance were and are disastrous.
The Iraqi Constitution: A Referendum for Disaster
UFPJ Talking Points #33: The referendum is a consolidation of US influence and control.
Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy
Bush’s October 6 address illustrated his desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq.
The "New" Iraq: Discovery or Invention
The stakes in the referendum on the Iraqi Constitution.
How Basra Slipped Out of Control: Portent in the Shiite South?
What happened in Basra may be a preview of a strategy aimed at causing the collapse of the U.S. political position in one city after another.
Redefining Security: A Budget for a New Generation
As leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere countries gather in Quebec City, Canada in April 2001, President George W. Bush hopes that the third Summit of the Americas will mark a step toward fulfilling his fathers dream of creating a free trade area stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
Drug Trafficking & Money Laundering
Drug profits moving through the U.S. financial system are estimated to be as high as $100 billion a year.
Libya: More Balance Needed
Under Qaddafis rule, Libya has made impressive gains in health care, education, housing, womens rights, and basic social services.
Ratifying Global Toxics Treaties: The U.S. Must Provide Leadership
The international community has, at long last, recognized that there are some toxic chemicals that are just too dangerous to produce, use, and storeput simply, too dangerous to have on the planet.
U.S.-Russia Nuclear Reductions
After the attacks of September 11 and the post-attack rash of anthrax mailings, renewed attention is being paid to the risks posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD) falling into the hands of additional states and nonstate actors.
Multilateral Debt: The Unbearable Burden
For most of the worlds impoverished countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the status of IFIs as preferred creditors assigned them by the Group of 7 (G-7) industrialized countries.
Bush Policy Undermines Progress on Korean Peninsula
President Bushs inclusion of North Korea in an axis of evil with Iran and Iraq is only the latest indication of Washingtons new hard-line approach to Pyongyang.