by Rob Prince | Oct 6, 2014 | Redev, Uncategorized
1. Upcoming elections in Tunisia will be the focus of both national and international attention in the coming period. Parliamentary elections on October 26 will be followed by a presidential election on November 23. The election campaign is in full swing at the...
by John Feffer | Oct 1, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
The Obama administration has admitted that it misjudged the extremists who set up the Islamic State in chunks of territory torn from Iraq and Syria. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, confessed that his analysts underestimated the “will to fight” of...
by Peter Certo | Oct 1, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. If Barack Obama owes his presidency to one thing, it was the good sense he had back in 2002 to call George W. Bush’s plans to go to war in Iraq what they were: “dumb.” (The war was many...
by Peter Van Buren | Sep 26, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know, a déjà-vu-all-over-again kinda thing. I even thought about telling you how, in 2011, I contacted a noted...
by Conn Hallinan | Sep 17, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
Thinking about U.S. foreign policy these days brings to mind a line from songwriter/comedian Tom Lehrer: if you are feeling like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis you have good reason. 1) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is creating a Rapid...
