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Since the 1960s, the environment has become a consistent theme in international political discourse, no longer solely the concern of small groups of activists but a mainstream issue. As environmental [...]

The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a 'new militarism' and a 'new imperialism.' Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new [...]

ON DAY 18 of the war in Iraq, a single United States Air Force B-1 bomber attacked a residence in the north of Baghdad where Saddam Hussein was believed to [...]

When Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in November of 1963, he knew that in order to accrue political capital he would initially need [...]

The decisions--about Iraq, about Korea, about fighting terrorism--that confront this U.S. President mat turn out to be as momentous as any an American leader has faced in decades. What capacities […]

Airman 1st Class Mitul Patel wears an Air Force uniform. Although he wasn't 'Born in the USA,' this 23-year-old crew chief is as redblooded as the 'Boss' and as 'Proud [...]

Our annual exercise was over. The wardroom slowly filled with people for the daily operations and intelligence brief, signaling the end of another day on USS Lassen (DDG 82). We [...]

Last March, Custer Battles, a McLean, Virginia-based security contractor run by Scott Custer, a former Army Ranger, and Mike Battles, an occasional Fox News commentator and one-time Republican candidate for [...]

ON JUNE 11, 2002, 32 members of Congress, led by Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio), filed a lawsuit to block Pres. Bush from withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. It named [...]

An extension of the war would suit Bush nicely because it would distract attention from economic problems right up to next year's election. But can the US really carry out […]

IT WOULD BE surprising if the United States and the rest of the rather unfortunately named 'coalition of the willing' were not already involved in military action against Iraq by [...]

Desperate Search for a Pretext for War Determined to smash Iraq, U.S. hawks are feverishly hunting for a casus belli--a pretext for war. With strong support from their Israeli allies, [...]

America's neoconservatives have the same utopian ambitions as the revolutionaries of 18th-century France and 20th-century Russia. Stubborn Iraqi soldiers are just the first of many obstacles. Around two hundred years […]

Horns honked and peace signs abounded from San Rafael to San Anselmo, where some 800 peace activists lined the busy Miracle Mile thoroughfare on Sept. 8. The two-hour peace vigil [...]

Military co-operation with the United States poses risks for Canadian sovereignty. We should invest in our defence and co-operate with the Americans, but on our terms, that favour our interests, [...]

America's change of tack is placating some and worrying others WHEN a blue-painted Sejjil missile streaked into the Persian skies in May, to calls of "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) [...]

Isolationism versus international involvement During most of the 19th and 20th centuries the US oscillated between isolationism and foreign military involvement. It did not enter the first world war, for [...]

Byline: Michael Hirsh And Richard Wolffe (With Babak Dehghanpisheh, Michael Hastings and the Iraqi staff in Baghdad and Mark Hosenball and John Barry in Washington) It may have been the [...]

Isolationism versus international involvement During most of the 19th and 20th centuries the US oscillated between isolationism and foreign military involvement. It did not enter the first world war, for [...]

Byline: Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and John Barry Saddam Hussein thought that Russia and France would prevent President George W. Bush from invading Iraq and ousting him, according to a [...]

Isolationism versus international involvement In the first three decades of its independence the US was closely allied with France, largely because of their shared animosity towards Britain. During most of [...]

Two years ago, the Paris air show took place in the shadow of the disagreement between France and the USA over the Iraq war. This year, the show comes at [...]

Isolationism versus international involvement In the first three decades of its independence the US was closely allied with France, largely because of their shared animosity towards Britain. During most of [...]

Byline: T. Trent Gegax Toby Dodge's new book 'Inventing Iraq' argues that the United States is repeating many of the mistakes that Britain made in the 1920s when it tried [...]

Iraq's American rulers have decided on a drastic revision of their political plan for the country. It has got a mixed reception ONE big reason the Americans gave for the [...]

Annan fears chaos Can the United States ever work comfortably with international institutions? First, we consider the United Nations; next, the International Criminal Court LONG before a bomb blew apart [...]

Iraq lies in ruin, the US military occupation is generating a sustained guerrilla resistance, crime is rampant in Baghdad and an Iraqi civil war along ethnic and religious lines is [...]

* In an interview with the Associated Press on September 18, Senator Edward Kennedy charged that a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office showed only about $2.5 billion of [...]

* Adam Shatz writes: Recently the Pentagon screened Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 The Battle of Algiers for a group of forty officers and civilian experts, on the theory that the film's [...]

He's still misleading. Speaking at the United Nations on September 23, George W. Bush defended his invasion of Iraq by noting that Saddam Hussein's regime had 'cultivated ties to terror [...]

Byline: Fareed Zakaria Finally everyone seems to agree on Iraq. The French and German governments have proposed that Iraq should be handed back to Iraqis as soon as possible. The [...]

The Bush administration's Iraq policy faces substantial obstacles: simmering unrest, factional disputes, impatience, distrust. And that's just in Washington, D.C. In the aftermath of the United Nations bombing in Baghdad, [...]

Purveyors of democracy to Iraq? The danger of blundering into somebody else's fight THIS survey opened by pointing out that small groups can produce big consequences. Had 19 Arabs not [...]

Yet, Iran and the United States share an interest in Iraqi stablity THE Iranians, too, held three days of mourning. Ayatollah Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim was an Iraqi with special Iranian [...]

The Jewish Problem pops up in the strangest places. In the winter of 1991, at the height of the first gulf war, I asked a right-wing Japanese politician who still [...]