“I have enormous sympathy for the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush.” — Senator Barack Obama, May 2008 Omissions of Grandeur The New York Times reports on a U.N. report that criticizes Israel for killing several protestors who attempted to cross the border fence from Lebanon in May. The…
Foreign Policy Journal — Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with his second pick being, “The world must adapt quickly to the end of fossil fuels”, including…
U.S. government documents shed some additional light on repeated Taliban offers to hand over Osama bin Laden.…
With a general election in Iraq scheduled for January 2010, the U.S. is encouraging the Iraqi legislature to pass the requisite election law, while international oil corporations continue to compete for contracts to exploit Iraq’s natural energy resources. After a meeting at the White House on Tuesday with Iraqi Prime…
Notice and Correction: Inquiries sent to the FRBNY, the U.S. State Department, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR, Department of Defense), the U.N. International Advisory and Monitoring Board for Iraq (IAMB), the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Oil, were not returned before publication. The…
There is continuing talk that the cause of ever-increasing oil prices is the result of a speculative investment “bubble”. As an example, a Washington Post subtitle the other day read, “Trading Loophole for Wall Street Speculators Is Driving Up Prices, Critics Say”. This seems to be increasingly becoming the given…
There still remains some controversy over the real reasons the U.S. went to war in Iraq. The official reasons for the war, that Iraq had WMD and threatened to supply them to terrorist organizations, namely al-Qaeda, intent upon using them against the U.S., have long since proven to be false…
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