by Jeremiah Goulka | Nov 5, 2012 | War & Peace
It’s the consensus among the pundits: foreign policy doesn’t matter in this presidential election. They point to the ways Republican candidate Mitt Romney has more or less parroted President Barack Obama on just about everything other than military...
by Ira Chernus | Oct 30, 2012 | War & Peace
The curious case of the incident in Benghazi was full of surprises from the beginning. It was the rare pundit who didn’t assure us that voters wouldn’t care a whit about foreign affairs this year. It was all going to be “the economy, stupid,”...
by Peter Van Buren | Oct 11, 2012 | War & Peace
We had a debate club back in high school. Two teams would meet in the auditorium, and Mr. Garrity would tell us the topic, something 1970s-ish like “Resolved: Women Should Get Equal Pay for Equal Work” or “World Communism Will Be Defeated in...
by John Feffer | Sep 6, 2012 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
Barack Obama is a smart guy. So why has he spent the last four years executing such a dumb foreign policy? True, his reliance on “smart power” — a euphemism for giving the Pentagon a stake in all things global — has been a smart move...
by Noam Chomsky | Jul 31, 2012 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Environment, Food & Farm, Health, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace, Women
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear. That should be a matter of serious...
