Foreign Policy

AntiWar.com’s Garris: More War Under Obama

President Obama’s plans are fast diverging from candidate Barack Obama’s campaign promises on Iraq, AntiWar.com co-founder Eric Garris tells The New American in...

Thomas R. Eddlem March 19, 2009

AntiWar.com’s Garris: The Burden of Empire

Thomas R. Eddlem March 19, 2009

War means big government and an excuse to clamp down on constitutionally protected freedoms, AntiWar.com co-founder Eric Garris tells The New American in...

Obama’s Budget: Where’s the Peace Dividend?

Thomas R. Eddlem March 13, 2009

Candidate Barack Obama pledged to get the United States out of Iraq, one of the two costly wars of occupation in which the...

Some Trade Restrictions on Cuba to Be Lifted

Kurt Williamsen March 12, 2009

The U.S. Congress has moved to lift some of the punitive economic measures the United States takes against Cuba. President Obama supports a...

The G20 Push to “Supersize” the IMF

William F. Jasper March 6, 2009

The big push to “supersize” and transform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System has been developing in elite...

Agenda Behind Brown’s “Global New Deal”

Charles Scaliger March 5, 2009

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has been working tirelessly for months to promote world financial and economic governance under the pretext of...

Obama’s “Transitional Force” for Iraq

Gary Benoit February 27, 2009

“Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” President Barack Obama...

Obama Bows to EU Demands on Stimulus

William F. Jasper February 5, 2009

Caving in to pressure from the European Union, President Barack Obama signaled this week that he wanted “Buy American” provisions struck from the...

Obama’s Interview with Al Arabiya

Kurt Williamsen January 27, 2009

On the morning of Tuesday, January 27, President Barack Obama gave an interview with Al Arabiya, an Arab news network based out of...

UN Official Wants to Prosecute Bush, Rumsfeld for Torture

January 26, 2009

The UN's "Special Rapporteur on Torture," Manfred Nowak, in a message recorded on January 20 for broadcast that evening on Germany's ZDF television,...

Expect More Foreign War Under Obama

Thomas R. Eddlem January 20, 2009

The Obama administration plans to increase overall troop commitments abroad this year, according to the Washington Post. The Obama administration has reportedly signed...