Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War

Time to Fire Karl Rove and “Scooter” Libby by Dr. Ivan Eland   With the coerced testimony of New York Times reporter Judith Miller in his pocket, special counsel Patrick […]

Leaders and Crises by Alvaro Vargas Llosa The recent World Economic Outlook report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has an interesting surprise. It includes a chapter on institutional reform […]

U.S. Must Resign Itself to “Rogue” State Nukes by Dr. Ivan Eland  North Korea’s agreement to end its nuclear weapons program came out of the wild blue yonder and appears […]

Lula’s Demise by Alvaro Vargas Llosa Brazil’s President Lula da Silva is immersed in a seemingly endless corruption scandal; his once larger-than-life reputation has been reduced to tatters. The significance […]

Wow. These correspondents really seem to be enjoying that Kool-Aid. I guess “Neo-con Red” is the flavor of the month. That stuff will rot your teeth.

  Democratic Hallucinations in Afghanistan and Iraq by Dr. Ivan Eland Insular and secretive presidential administrations often deny reality to the point of absurdity when they blunder into foreign misadventures. […]

Sarai State of Affairs by Dr. Ivan Eland U.S. and Iraqi forces stormed into the Sarai neighborhood of Tall Afar this weekend, a northern Iraqi city believed to be a […]

  Top Ten Reasons to “Undo” Iraq in Due Haste by Dr. Ivan Eland Three years ago, in what passed for a “debate” about invading Iraq, I wrote a piece […]

Will Iraq’s Constitution Be Irrelevant? by Dr. Ivan Eland To the Bush administration’s relief, world media attention has focused intensely on whether the fractious Iraqis will meet the now extended […]