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FPIF Strategic Dialogue In Life After Fidel, Samuel Farber explains that the new Cuban leadership is contemplating neoliberal economic reforms but democracy is still off the table. Cubans are trying to preserve the gains of the revolution in the face of U.S. hostility, argues Saul Landau in Cuba: The Struggle Continues. In the second part of the exchange, Saul Landau and Samuel Farber debate the future of Cuba: Strategic Dialogue on Cuba. |
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Strategic Focus: U.S. Military Footprint
The United States maintains more than 700 bases around the world and is pushing to set up even more. What are these bases doing, how is the Pentagon rethinking their functions, and how can we reduce this military footprint? In Base-less Strategy, Dan Smith points out that, ironically, the question of whether U.S. bases being built in Iraq should be, or clearly already are, permanent, is more of a U.S. domestic controversy than an issue between the United States and Iraq. In The Other Guantanamo, David Vine looks at how the U.S. base on Diego Garcia quietly prepares for a role in staging a possible attack on Iran. The Pentagon is restructuring its bases in South Korea. Jae-Jung Suh portrays the future of the U.S. global military presence. Marko Beljac discusses the cataclysmic implications of the looming U.S. weaponization of space. In NATO at a Crossroads, Ian Davis describes a plan for a new concept of NATO's mission and a reformed nuclear policy. There is a growing number of campaigns that seek the withdrawal of U.S. foreign military bases. And as Joseph Gerson points out in Resisting the Empire, they may just succeed. In Guantanamo: The Bigger Picture, Frida Berrigan makes the case for shutting down not just the prison, but the military base where it sits. Violence against women, violation of local autonomy, and contamination of the environment are all part of the issue of gender and U.S. bases in the Asia-Pacific. In Yankees Head Home, John Lindsey-Poland explains how the U.S. Military is reconfiguring its unpopular presence in Latin America.
Although the United States closed its bases in the Philippines in 1991, Herbert Docena writes in In The Dragon's Lair, it has nevertheless managed to deepen its military presence and intervention in the islands. The Bush administration wants to place U.S. military troops and bases permanently on Iraqi soil despite strong objections from many Democrats, argues Adil Shamoo in The Enduring Trap in Iraq. As Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison explain in Pushing Missile Defense in Europe, the United States wants to establish bases in Poland and the Czech Republic—over the objections of the citizens of those countries. With the new Africa Command, Daniel Volman and Beth Tuckey argue in Militarizing Africa (Again), the United States is increasing its military presence on an energy-rich continent. And Tom Engelhardt laments in The Million Year War that there's a risk that the United States will never withdraw from Iraq. |
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Annotate This ... On March 17, Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University outlining her plans to de-escalate U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Stephen Zunes annotates her statements. Dan Smith asks, why is the president still giving victory speeches about the Iraq War? |
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It's time to honestly step forth and engage Cubans and their government on the terms they negotiate inside their own country.
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Asia
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May Oo
The Burmese government has announced far-reaching reforms. Or are they reforms?
Flogging a Dead Agreement
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Hardliners Target Détente with North Korea
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The opponents of engagement with North Korea are sharpening their knives.
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Running Against the West
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