Surrounding China’s String of Pearls
September 29, 2008 | The United States' "rimland strategy" highlights the ambiguity of its relationship with China.
Articles by John Feffer
Of Coffee and Capitalism
September 23, 2008 | The rise of Starbucks also seems to correspond with the expansion of the go-go economy.
Executive Summary for ‘A Unified Security Budget for the United States’
September 22, 2008 | In this fifth annual edition of the "Unified Security Budget," as with the previous four editions, a non-partisan task force of military, homeland security, and foreign policy experts laid out the facts of the imbalance between military and non-military spending.
Bring Them Home…from Asia
September 19, 2008 | U.S. military presence in South Korea and Japan has outlived its usefulness.
Starbucks v. Ethiopia
September 15, 2008 | It was a classic confrontation between a poor underdog and a wealthy transnational corporation. But then the story took an unexpected twist.
Danger in South Asia
September 10, 2008 | Columnist Conn Hallinan warns that conflicts in Iran and Georgia might soon be eclipsed by simmering tension elsewhere.
Stealth Crisis
September 9, 2008 | When pundits talk about the U.S. elections and foreign policy, they focus on Iraq and Iran. But the third member of the infamous "axis of evil" may prove to be just as influential.
Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
September 8, 2008 | In the poems Aziz and In the News, award-winning author Naomi Shihab Nye remembers her father, a Palestinian forced out of his home in Jerusalem in 1948.
Asia’s Olympic Debs
August 26, 2008 | Like any coming-of-age event, the Olympics not only acknowledge transformation, they can be part of that transformation.