News Abroad

Keeping Veterans Day Alive

by Ed Hooper

Veterans Day celebrations are in retrenchment all over the country.

How the Arabs Manipulate the Media, Israelis and the West

by Alex Grobman

“One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."

Ahmed Wali Karzai Walks on Water While Marc Emery Goes to Prison: The Double Standards of the War on Drugs and the Historical Pattern of U.S. Complicity in the Global Narcotics Traffic

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

According to his numerous supporters and wikepedia page, Marc Emery is a peaceful and intelligent man who has accomplished much in his life as a libertarian activist working on behalf of a variety of causes. He was recently arre

A Day of Infamy: November 10, 1975

by Alex Grobman

Justice Richard Goldstone’s U.N. report charging Israel of “deliberate attacks” aga

How Ike Can Help Obama’s No Nukes Quest

by William Lambers

Just over half-way into his presidency, Barack Obama has already seen North Korea detonate a nuclear bomb and continue its missile testing. But Obama is not the first president to receive nuclear shocks so soon after taking office.

What Savvy Leaders Could Do to Move Toward a Nuclear-Free World (Obama--Are You Listening?)

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Addressing a U.N. Security Council Summit on September 24, 2009, President Barack Obama observed that the resolution unanimously adopted by the Security Council earlier that day "enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons."But the enthusiasm for this measure among the representative

A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory?

by Kenneth Weisbrode

News leaked recently that President Obama had called a group of historians to the White House a few months ago to educate him on the thinking of President Lyndon Johnson in late 1964 as Johnson weighed the possibility of ordering a major military escalation in Vietnam. As we know, that fateful escalation came in 1965. Are we to conclude that Obama has Vietnam in mind as he considers sending more troops to Afghanistan? Most likely. Experts will argue forever about whether the Vie

Why We Fear General McChrystal's Counterinsurgency Plan May Be Doomed

by Joseph Magagnoli and Andrew Enterline

American Gen. Stanley McChrystal, recently appointed military commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, contends that absent a significant change in strategy, the outcome of the counterinsurgency war against the Taliban and associated groups will result in a military defeat.  The critical question before President Obama and the allied nations engaged in the war in Afghanistan is whether a failed counterinsurgency  can be corrected and military victory achieved. In addressing this ques

Another Nobel Controversy

by Lawrence S. Wittner

The swirling controversy over President Barack Obama's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize brings to mind another controversy that began in October 1985, when the Norwegian committee announced that that year's prize would go to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).This global physicians' movem

Why Can't We Do Something to End Hunger? We Can.

by William Lambers

It was in November, 1945 that the Cincinnati Enquirer reported a heroic effort by area schoolchildren. The students helped to collect 36,000 pounds of clothing, bedding and shoes for the charity Save the Children, which then

Left and Right Against War

by Murray Polner

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.  We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”--General Omar Bradley“Canada must be ours [say the war hawks]. We have nothing to do but to march into Canada and display the standard of the U.S., and the Canadians will immediately flock to it.”--Rep. Samuel Taggart, whose antiwar article during the War of 1812 revealed how similar the prow

Obama, Afghanistan, and American History

by William O. Walker III

On September 14, President Barack Obama rejected comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam. He staked out his position even while considering whethe

Analogies for War: Vietnam and Afghanistan

by John Prados

Reluctant as he may be, President Barack Obama faces a defining moment in the Afghan war. General Stanley McChrystal’s call for more troops, as much as it is a bid to change the course of the

U-Turn at the UN? President Obama Reveals an Unconventional Approach to Troubled World Body

by Louie Milojevic

In his first address to the United Nations Barack Obama tried something that none of his predecessors had ever contemplated; he spoke to the General Assembly as President of the United States, and not as the leader of the free world. Political leanings aside, American presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush have used the United Nations as a platform from which to project national power and ensure the continuity of the ‘American way’ in international affairs.  A bedroc

Are We Racing Toward Armageddon?

by Michael Baigent

The race toward Armageddon is the stumbling toward self-destruction. Armageddon! The great battle against the Antichrist; when the red mist of a vast firestorm is to descend from above to envelope all living creatures in its deceptive embrace, leaving the god of

Keeping Israel On The Defensive As Long As Possible With Lie After Lie

by Alex Grobman

Opponents of Israel repeatedly accuse her of being an occupier, disenfranchising the Arabs and

The Weakness of National Military Strength

by Lawrence S. Wittner

During 2008, the nations of the world spent nearly $1.5 trillion on their military forces.  That is what has been reported by the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which noted that the five biggest spenders were the United States ($607 billion), China ($85 billion), Fra

Historic Change in Japan?

by Jonathan Dresner

Last time I lived in Japan, in the mid '90s, the LDP lost control of the Diet, Japan's parliament, and for a year and a half there was a Socialist Prime Minister in charge of an implausible coaliti

Is Anyone Listening to What The Arabs Are Saying About Israel?

by Alex Grobman

 Even if the Obama administration were to succeed in compelling Israel to accept a two-state solution and stop building settlements in Judea and Samaria, this would not placate the Arabs or ensure peace in the region. Before embracing the idea of a Palestinian state, we should ask why the Arabs have consistently opposed partition, and examine the origin of the “Two-State Solution.” 1 When the Peel Commission recommended partition in July 1937, the Ara

The Phoenix Program Was a Disaster in Vietnam and Would Be in Afghanistan--And the NYT Should Know that

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

As best expressed in Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman’s seminal 1989 work, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, the New York Times, has been a consistent champion of U.S. militarism