Foreign Policy

Surviving Nuclear Attack: “Duck and Cover” Is Back

Almost three decades have passed since the film The Atomic Cafe (1982) offered a cynical, and yet vacuous, denigration of the efforts of...

James Heiser December 17, 2010

Senate to Consider START Arms Control Treaty

December 16, 2010

ABC News reported on December 16 that with the bill extending the Bush-era tax cuts having been passed by the Senate and headed...

Obama Ignores Afghanistan-Pakistan Reality

Michael Tennant December 15, 2010

The Obama administration plans to release a review of U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan on December 16. White House Press Secretary Robert...

Uncle Sam’s Afghan Drug Lord

Michael Tennant December 13, 2010

Governments’ dealings with paid informers are always risky. By his willingness to snitch on his friends and associates, the informer has demonstrated his...

WikiLeaks: Asking the Right Questions

Bob Adelmann December 13, 2010

Nearly everyone with an internet connection knows the website WikiLeaks.org to be the notorious publisher of inconvenient truths about the secret machinations of...

Gingrich Calls Assange an “Enemy Combatant”

Thomas R. Eddlem December 9, 2010

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange an “enemy combatant” on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch. He also called...

WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. & EU Climate Bullying, Bribery, Espionage

Alex Newman December 6, 2010

A series of secret U.S. diplomatic cables released in recent days by the whistle-blower group WikiLeaks shows the American and European governments used...

WikiLeaks: Whistleblowing or Treason?

Thomas R. Eddlem December 5, 2010

The Obama administration used bribes of up to $30 billion in foreign aid and spying by the CIA to force underdeveloped nations to...

Families Grieve as Six U.S. Soldiers’ Bodies Return From Afghanistan

Michael Tennant December 2, 2010

As the death toll among U.S. service members in Afghanistan continues to mount — 2010 is the deadliest year of the war thus...

WikiLeaks Releases U.S. Diplomatic Cables

Thomas R. Eddlem November 29, 2010

The Internet-based watchdog site WikiLeaks began releasing more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in batches beginning November 28, earning the condemnation of the...

First Time: U.S. Tanks in Afghanistan

Mary McHugh November 22, 2010

M1A1 Abrams tanks will be put to use in Afghanistan’s Helmand province by early spring. It is the first time in the nine-year...

Obama Greets Muslim pilgrims

James Heiser November 18, 2010

Only a few days have passed since President Obama’s return from an expensive overseas jaunt in which he traveled from India to Indonesia...

Obama and Clinton Push START Nuclear Treaty

November 17, 2010

AP reported on November 17 that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to reporters after a 90-minute breakfast meeting with members of...