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Review: The Militarization of Indian Country

by V. Noah Gimbel | Jul 4, 2011

Author, activist, and two-time Green Party vice-presidential candidate (1996 and 2000) Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg national, and her latest book, The Militarization of Indian Country, marks her fifth work on this subject. Only 70 pages, this short book surveys a wide range of issues related to military incursions into Native America without delving too deeply into any of them. But at the book’s end the reader will find a number of resources both online and in print to flesh out the issues raised.

The World According to Robert Gates

by Keith Menconi | Jul 1, 2011

Calls for deep cuts in the federal deficit have returned the military budget–now more than twice the 2001 budget even before counting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan–to the fiscal chopping block for the first time in ten years. In response, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spent his last months in office stiffening his rhetorical defense of the Pentagon budget. His discourse reveals both the distance we have come in recent years in eliminating Pentagon inefficiencies and excesses, and the numerous dangers threatening American security around the world.

Shifting Targets: From Iran to Libya and Syria (Part 1)

by Rob Prince | Jul 1, 2011

Invading Libya is about the oil, Syria — eliminating the only Russian naval base in the Mediterranean and weakening Hizbollah.

The Healthy Wage War

by Mark Engler | Jun 30, 2011

Eighty-four percent of all income growth in America between 1989 and 2007 went to the richest ten percent of households. That dramatic increase in inequality corresponds closely with the decline of organized labor—from covering 24 percent of workers in the late 1970s to just 11.9 percent in 2010.

Development and Migration: The Missing Link

by Laura Carlsen | Jun 30, 2011

Although Obama’s attempt to reframe the debate moved discussion back into economics, he left out any structural explanation of what pushes migration in a globalized world. He portrayed U.S. companies that employ undocumented labor as rogue rule-breakers, and simultaneously exalted migrants as valuable assets while still describing them as global interlopers.

Obama’s Noble Sentiments About Afghanistan Undermined by Meager Drawdown

by Adam Cohen | Jun 27, 2011

The dissonance between the sentiments President Obama expressed in his Afghanistan speech and his plans begs the question of how much control he has over his own foreign policy.

The Nuclear Terrorists Are Coming: Break Out the Varsity Squad!

by Russ Wellen | Jun 26, 2011

Nuclear safety needs to share the light that Fukushima has shone on it with nuclear security. Russ Wellen at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.

As Cause for Hope in Afghanistan, “Light at the End of the Tunnel” Has Lost Its Luster

by Russ Wellen | Jun 24, 2011

Even if we reach the end of the tunnel of one war, there will be a tunnel to a new war awaiting us. Russ Wellen at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.

U.S. Escalates War Against Al-Qaeda

by Jim Lobe | Jun 23, 2011

“Every time civilians are killed, you almost always do more harm than good,” agreed Carnegie’s Boucek. “You turn off the Yemeni people from wanting to co-operate; you turn off the government, because it looks like they’re facilitating it. It breeds further radicalization and makes it appear that Americans only care about terrorism, which is a pretty small issue compared to the challenges that Yemen faces and that lead to state failure or collapse,” he added.

Ten Little Republicans

by John Feffer | Jun 21, 2011

Ten little Republicans, all in a line,
discussing foreign policy one at a time.
They lambaste Obama as socialist slime
inadvertently refuting intelligent design.

They all agree that the Islamic threat
is even more fearful than the national debt.
They couldn’t tell Shia from Sunni, I’ll bet.
But the sight of an imam sure makes them sweat.