Foreign Policy

¡No Más! No More! ¡No Más! No More!

Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuat...

Mar 31, 2006 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney

Fearmongering on Dubai Fearmongering on Dubai

Democrats should see the panic over the DP World deal as an opportunity for a nervy rudder-turn and challenge the obsessive secrecy and toxic premises of Bush's national security p...

Mar 2, 2006 / The Editors

The Dubai Farce The Dubai Farce

What a farce: The Dubai Ports deal shows Bush is willing to trust the Arab-owned Dubai Ports to manage our harbors, even as he scapegoats them as culprits in his war on terror.

Mar 1, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Olympic Swagger Olympic Swagger

Swagger was America's chosen posture at the Winter Olympics. Once again, sport imitated life: boasting got us nowhere at the Turin games or in the world.

Feb 28, 2006 / Feature / William Greider

Free Trade Planet Free Trade Planet

The uproar over the Dubai Ports deal ignores the obvious consequences of the free trade that American politicians of both parties have pushed for decades. Like it or not, we have t...

Feb 27, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Dubai Ports flap is bogus, but it's fun to see Democrats and Republicans frothing in unison. Hysteria has defined the Bush presidency; now the fearmonger-in-chief is getting a ...

Feb 23, 2006 / Feature / William Greider

Pity the Region Pity the Region

Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilization criticizes a self-righteous US foreign policy oblivious to the power of retributive justice in the Middle East.

Jan 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Augustus Richard Norton

Pandora’s Box Pandora’s Box

A deep planetary insecurity has fostered a rush to build boundaries around ourselves--psychic green zones--no matter how irrational, separating white from black or brown, Christian...

Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics

The pursuit of truth in drama is elusive, but in life it is mandatory, wrote Harold Pinter, who died Wednesday at 78. When he won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature, he condemned ...

Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Undermining Haiti Undermining Haiti

Democracy is being destroyed in Haiti, openly and with the support of the United States and United Nations. If the farce election set for December 27 by unelected government takes ...

Nov 23, 2005 / Mark Weisbrot

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