by Stephen Zunes | Feb 3, 2010 | War & Peace
For eight years, I wrote annotated critiques of the foreign policy segments of George W. Bush’s State of the Union speeches. Despite two ongoing wars, it was striking that Obama focused so little in his first State of the Union speech on the world outside our...
by Phyllis Bennis, Erik Leaver | Dec 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
There was one way in which President Obama’s escalation speech brought significant relief to the 59% of people in this country, as well as the overwhelming majorities of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East and elsewhere who oppose the U.S. war in...
by Erik Leaver, Julien Mercille | Nov 5, 2009 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
As President Obama and his advisors debate future troop levels for Afghanistan, a new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) muddies the water on one of the most important issues in the debate — the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production. The...
by John Feffer, John Prados | Sep 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Former CIA director Michael Hayden played a key role in organizing support among his predecessors for the letter a group of them sent last week demanding that President Barack Obama end or curtail the Justice Department investigation into abuses by CIA interrogators...
by Phyllis Bennis, Emily Schwartz Greco | Jun 4, 2009 | War & Peace
President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated Cairo speech reflected a significant shift away from the ideological framework of militarism and unilateralism that shaped the Bush administration’s war-based policy toward the Arab and Muslim worlds. His...
