William Pfaff (December 29, 1928 – April 30, 2015) was a globally respected political commentator and author on international relations, contemporary history and U.S. policy.
William Pfaff (December 29, 1928 – April 30, 2015) was a globally respected political commentator and author on international relations, contemporary history and U.S. policy.
William Pfaff / TruthdigJan 28, 2015
Years of trudging through an economic slough of despond, guarded by German warders, have left the states of the European Union's south near to despair. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigJan 21, 2015
The upheaval in non-Muslim attitudes towards Muslims presents a bigger and more urgent problem than what the Muslims think about us, even when they kill us. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigJan 14, 2015
The recent excitement in Paris produced an occasion of great surprise to an American observer, certainly to one who witnessed the transformational fear exacted from America's governing elite by the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigJan 7, 2015
The folk-wisdom incorporated into the story of the Tar Baby and Br'er Rabbit applies to the Middle Eastern wars from which the United States and the West want to retreat, but again and again find themselves caught deep in the tar. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigDec 24, 2014
The armies of Israel once fought brilliantly and to the benefit of the state, but more recent conflicts targeting civilians only serve to isolate the country and alienate its most important allies. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigDec 17, 2014
In 1946, the judges of Nuremberg ordered that high-ranking war criminals -- the people who had ordered that the gloves be taken off -- should be hanged until dead. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigDec 3, 2014
China is emerging as the new Number One, while the policy makers in Washington can't get their heads out of the Cold War. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigNov 26, 2014
Chuck Hagel's departure from his post as defense secretary has been attributed to his failure to fit in with the Obama cabinet's crowd. Among his other reported deficiencies was that he was only a sergeant in Vietnam, twice wounded. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigNov 19, 2014
For a man who had taken a stunning electoral blow two weeks earlier, Barack Obama completed his Asian trip with an air of unperturbed leadership of the world. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigNov 12, 2014
All is not lost. Change has happened in the past, against severe resistance, three times since the Civil War. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigNov 6, 2014
The dominating significance of the midterm elections has been the occasion's dramatic confirmation of the corruption of the American electoral system. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigOct 29, 2014
The threat of terror produced by past victims of American Middle Eastern imperialism is alarming, but not new, and not historically isolated to the Middle East. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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