by John Feffer | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Russia is disappearing. So is Japan. Europe is next to go. It’s not the rising waters of global warming that threaten these parts of the world. The problem is more basic. The Russians and Japanese, as well as large numbers of Europeans, are not having enough...
by Mark Engler, John Feffer | Sep 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Pittsburgh brought together leaders from the most significant players in the global economy and charged them with renovating the financial system at the heart of the economic crisis. Change was on the agenda, and the...
by John Feffer | Jul 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Pakistan has one of the largest, most sophisticated militaries on the planet. Its army is as large as the U.S. Army. It’s among the top 25 largest military spenders in the world. On top of the billions of dollars of weapons provided to Pervez Musharraf’s...
by John Feffer, Paul Hockenos | Jun 4, 2009 | War & Peace
Dmitri Trenin is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. From 1993-1997, he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993. Paul Hockenos: How...
by John Feffer, Paul Hockenos | Apr 2, 2009 | War & Peace
It hasn’t taken long at all for the Obama administration’s honeymoon with Europe to wear thin. The handling of the global economic crisis was the first breach. And directly on the heels of the G20 summit will come NATO’s 60th anniversary summit at a...
