He's tall and thin, with a shock of white hair. A bombardier in the great war against fascism and an antiwar veteran of America's wars ever since, he's best known as the author of the pathbreaking A People's History of the United States, and as an expert on the...
On Sept. 6-7, 2005, the New America Foundation hosted "Terrorism, Security & America's Purpose," a policy forum featuring scholars, elected officials, intelligence experts, and journalists. A full list of speakers is available here. Anatol Lieven is the author of The...
There is a time to talk the talk, and a time to walk the walk – a time for analysis, and a time for action – and now is the time for the latter. We need immediate action to stop the war – before it spreads beyond Iraq, before it bankrupts our country,...
If U.S. President George W. Bush was counting on Sunday's "Freedom Walk" and country music festival at the Pentagon to revive the patriotic spirit (and rally his sagging approval ratings) that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on their fourth anniversary,...
What has been obvious to many of us for some time should be obvious to almost everybody in the wake of the botch government – city, state, and local, there's plenty of incompetence to go around – has made of Hurricane Katrina. The empire has no clothes....
On Sept. 6-7, 2005, the New America Foundation hosted "Terrorism, Security & America's Purpose," a policy forum featuring scholars, elected officials, intelligence experts, and journalists. A full list of speakers is available here. In his presentation, Professor...
On Sept. 6-7, 2005, the New America Foundation hosted "Terrorism, Security & America's Purpose," a policy forum featuring scholars, elected officials, intelligence experts, and journalists. A full list of speakers is available here. Freelance journalist Nir Rosen has...
UNITED NATIONS - A beleaguered UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday stood his ground despite charges of corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement of the $34 billion now-defunct Iraqi oil-for-food program run by the UN secretariat, which he administers. Asked if...
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani government has begun to appear apologetic about its plans to open diplomatic links with Israel, as criticism builds up against a budding liaison between two nations founded in the late 1940s in the name of religion. Waves of condemnation,...
Of Omnipotent Government More than lives and property was drowned by the fetid waters that deluged New Orleans and the media-forsaken coastlines of Mississippi and Alabama in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Any credibility that the Imperial government may have had...
