The Mexican government’s heavily militarized fight against narcotraffickers has helped keep the country mired in violence and inequality.
Deregulation and Free Trade a Win-Win for Mexican Narcotraffickers
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War & Peace
Pakistanis Pay Price for CIA Use of Doctor as Asset in bin Laden Raid
Islamist extremists have been targeting Pakistani women who work for the UN administering polio vaccines.
Afghanistan: Avoiding Default
Although most Washington policymakers would simply prefer that Afghanistan disappear, they must still come up with a politically palatable solution regarding U.S. involvement. Here are three scenarios for how the U.S. might manage its involvement in the country between now and 2014.
Maybe David Brooks Could Teach Gen. Petraeus and the Kagans a Thing or Two About Humility
Were conservative Washington think-tankers helping determine U.S. strategy in Afghanistan?
Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent
Anyone expecting Obama to be decidedly more pro-peace this time around is likely to be sorely dispirited. However, there is a diverse, growing peoples’ movement in the United States linking human and environmental needs with a demand to end our wars and liberate the vast resources they consume.
Does Pakistan’s National Pride Hinge on India Considering It a Threat?
Pakistan may not frighten India as much as it would like.
U.S. Guilt Over Rwanda Will Only Lead to More Guilt
Sympathy for a state’s past should not color current policy.
The Pentagon Is Ripe for Reduction
Here we are on brink of a major historical moment. We’re beginning to wind down the longest period of war in our history. And we’re about to turn around a 13-year-long surge in Pentagon spending. It’s not just longtime advocates for such changes like me who think so.
The Cost of Occupying Planet Earth
How much does the United States spend each year occupying the planet with its bases and troops? Forced by Congress to account for its spending overseas, the Pentagon has put that figure at $22.1 billion a year. It turns out that even a conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes to an annual total of about $170 billion–or maybe even more.
Y-12 Activists May Be Barred From Bringing up the Morality of Nukes at Their Trial
Transform Now Plowshares Three’s efforts were initially devalued because the only kind of soul searching resulting from their actions was about plant security, not the morality of nuclear weapons.