Truthdig Columns
2010
09/08 A French Leftist Ritual Takes On Sarkozy
09/01 Guess Who’s Coming to the Table?
08/17 There’s Nothing Surgical About Cluster Bombs
08/10 Germany’s Good Fortune Tips the Scales Against Its Neighbors
08/03 Shifting War Strategy Smacks of Desperation
07/28 Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War
07/20 Will China Rule the World?
07/13 Reality and Reform for How the EU Keeps Its Peace
06/29 When the ‘Right War’ Goes Wrong
06/22 Runaway Defense Spending Not Winning Any Wars
06/16 Historical Lessons Warn Against Modern U.S. Foreign Policy
06/08 Newest National Security Strategy Is an Elaboration of the Old
06/02 Who Runs America’s Response to the Oil Blowout?
05/26 Obama’s New Security Strategy Looks Much Like the Old One
05/18 What Next for NATO?
05/11 Euro’s Crisis Has American Fingerprints
05/05 A Fragile Partnership
04/27 The NATO Nuisance
04/20 Exaggeration of Iranian Threat Could Have Dire Consequences
04/13 What Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Conference Missed
04/06 As Iraq Threatens to Come Apart, U.S. Problems in Afghanistan Mount
03/30 Greece Isn’t Europe’s Only Problem
03/24 The Crisis of Catholicism
03/17 The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out
03/09 Is There a Mideast Solution?
03/03 Competition in Ignominy
02/24 U.S. Allies in Europe Begin to Pull Back
02/16 Europe Needs to Believe in Its Own Adequacy
02/09 America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan
02/02 Who Will Be the New Global King of the Hill?
01/27 A Duped President’s Wasted Foreign Policy Year
01/19 The Source of America’s Imperial Presidency
01/12 Presidential Posturing Isn’t Getting the U.S. Anywhere
01/08 The Question No U.S. Official Dare Ask
01/05 Al-Qaida Uses U.S., U.S. Plays Along
2009
12/30 Iran, Yemen Posing Challenges to American Intelligence
12/24 Between a Japanese Christmas and a French Halloween
12/23 Tension Simmers in Iran
12/17 The Fallacy of Good vs. Evil in Afghanistan
12/16 U.S. Contemplates More of the Scarcely Believable in ‘Af-Pak’
12/10 When in Economic Trouble, Invent a Gold Mine
12/08 ‘The Great Global Security Underwriter’ Will Pay a High Price
12/03 Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan Hardly a Surprise
12/02 Is It Time for Financial Institutions to Give Back?
11/24 Delay Worked for Kennedy
11/20 Enough G-2 Talk Already
11/17 The Demilitarization of the White House
11/12 Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace
11/10 A Disappointing Year With Obama
11/05 Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World
11/03 Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions
10/27 Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
10/22 The Country That Cries Wolf
10/20 Turkish Cooperation—and Coffee—in Short Supply for Israel
10/16 With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?
10/13 In Search of Great Men
10/06 Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend
10/01 Communist China Turns 60—and Reveals Its Insecurities
09/29 In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas
09/25 Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Could Get Much Worse if Tolerated
09/23 A Puzzling, Dangerous U.S. Policy Comes to an End
09/17 All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His
09/08 The United States of Plutocracy
09/01 Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?
08/27 Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War
08/25 Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture
08/20 Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan
08/18 You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness
08/13 Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side
08/11 There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed
08/04 U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure
07/30 America’s Homeland Security Surplus
07/28 ‘Colorful’ Leaders Could Learn From Boring Brown
07/23 U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan
07/21 Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution
07/16 Blame the Midas Touch
07/02 The Battle Over the Burqa
06/30 U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain
06/26 A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight
06/23 Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality
06/18 The War Between Civilizations That Never Was
06/16 The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger
06/10 America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown
06/05 Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning
06/02 GM’s Fall and the Cars of My Youth
05/29 What Will Obama Say in Cairo?
05/26 The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia
05/20 War-Addicted U.S. Afflicted With Imperialist Hangover
05/16 As Smash-and-Grab Capitalism Collapses, the French Economy Shines
05/13 Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan
05/08 Israel’s Bad-Faith Negotiating Position
05/05 Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat
04/28 Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’
04/23 Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War
04/21 When Fascism Came to America
04/16 Delusions of Omnipotence
04/14 The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns
04/10 Getting to Zero Starts With One Man
04/07 It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster
04/02 America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s