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Tom Barry

Policy Director, International Relations Center

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Tom Barry is Policy Director for the International Relations Center (IRC, formerly Interhemispheric Resource Center, online at www.irc-online.org). He co-founded the IRC in 1979 with Beth Wood and Debra Preusch, our Executive Director. In 1996 Barry founded Foreign Policy In Focus and was its first director. As senior analyst at the IRC, he has authored or co-authored numerous books on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, food aid, the United Nations, free trade, and U.S. foreign policy, including Global Focus: The Next Fifty Years: The United Nations and the United States (Resource Center Press, 1996); Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico (South End Press, 1995); The Great Divide: U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990 (Grove Weidenfeld, 1994); The Challenge of Cross-Border Environmentalism: The U.S.-Mexico Case (Resource Center Press, 1994); Crossing the Line: Immigrants, Economic Integration, and Drug Enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Resource Center Press, 1994); and Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America (University of Nebraska Press, 1990).

He began his career as a political activist and analyst at Georgetown University in the late 1960s but left the university to work full time in opposition to the Vietnam War. In 1971 he founded an investigative weekly newspaper in New Mexico. He also worked as an investigative journalist with the Navajo Times weekly, with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and Center for Investigative Reporting.

Barry directs the IRC’s Right Web program (online at http://rightweb.irc-online.org/).

 

Articles written by this Advisory Committee Member for FPIF

Pobre Pecos, Pobres Presos—Justicia Penal para los Inmigrantes en el Condado de Reeves en Texas
Oct 27, 2009

Profits, Poverty, and Immigration Converge
Oct 26, 2009

Las reformas del ICE sobre detención ocultan prácticas abusivas
Oct 21, 2009

Poor Pecos, Poor Prisoners—Criminal Justice for Immigrants in Texas' Reeves County
Oct 15, 2009

El nuevo complejo de la seguridad nacional: La conjunción del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional con los aparatos de inteligencia y defensa
Oct 5, 2009

Former Border Patrol Chief Silvestre Reyes Now a Major Player in New Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Complex
Sep 28, 2009

New National Security Complex:
Bringing Together Homeland Security, Intelligence, and Defense

Sep 23, 2009

ICE Detention Reforms Hide Abusive Practices
Sep 19, 2009

Former Bush Security Chiefs Find Terrorism Obsession Can Be Profitable
Aug 25, 2009

"Community Security" Mission Creep at Homeland Security
Jul 10, 2009

Enforcement-First Immigration Politics
May 29, 2009

Restoring Integrity to the Immigration System
May 22, 2009

Criminal Alien Funding and the Immigrant-Based Criminal Justice Complex
May 13, 2009

Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security
May 11, 2009

"War on Crime" Targets Immigrants
May 11, 2009

Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Crime and Drug Wars
Apr 30, 2009

The Failed Border Security Initiative
Apr 22, 2009

The National Imperative to Imprison Immigrants for Profit
Mar 10, 2009

La nueva economía política de la inmigración
Mar 2, 2009

Medical Claims and Malpractice in Correctional Healthcare
Feb 24, 2009

Los presos inmigrantes, atrapados en el laberinto de la subcontratación
Feb 19, 2009

Napolitano's Hard Echo of Liberal Immigration Reform Strategy
Feb 19, 2009

The New Political Economy of Immigration
Feb 16, 2009

Immigrant Inmates Caught in Outsourcing Labyrinth
Feb 16, 2009

Immigrant Prison Burns in Pecos
Feb 6, 2009

America's Frontline Is Getting Crowded
Feb 6, 2009

Boom Times on the Border
Feb 5, 2009

Napolitano Finessing Immigrant Crackdown
Feb 3, 2009

Homeland Security Colony
Feb 2, 2009

Good News from Nashville: Diversity Not Uniformity
Jan 23, 2009

Obama's Immigration Challenge: More about Words than Policy
Jan 22, 2009

Los latinos, por los latinos
Dec 18, 2008

El desafío de Chertoff a Obama
Dec 9, 2008

Immigrants Drive Prison Profits
Dec 1, 2008

Expect "Rule of Law" to Rule Immigration Policy
Nov 24, 2008

Latinos for Latinos
Nov 21, 2008

El pragmatismo político de Rahm Emanuel y la Reforma Migratoria
Nov 20, 2008

Anti-Immigration Forces Ready to Challenge Obama
Nov 20, 2008

Identity Politics and the Latino Payback on Immigration
Nov 18, 2008

Both Sides of Immigration Debate Retrench
Nov 14, 2008

Emanuel's Political Pragmatism on Immigration Reform
Nov 7, 2008

Chertoff's Challenge to Obama
Nov 4, 2008

Legal Immigrants Next Target of Anti-Immigration Groups
Oct 17, 2008

Obama, América Latina y FDR
Sep 10, 2008

Democrats to Immigrants: "Get Right with the Law"
Sep 5, 2008

Republicans Echo Immigration Restrictionists
Sep 5, 2008

Obama, Latin America, and FDR
Aug 25, 2008

El gulag burocrático de la inmigración
Aug 12, 2008

Bienvenido a casa, Raymundo Pacheco
Jul 25, 2008

Welcome Home Raymundo Pacheco
Jul 23, 2008

La red tendida sobre los "ilegales fugitivos"
Jul 11, 2008

Las maquiladoras, un síntoma del desarrollo dependiente de México
Jul 7, 2008

La estrategia de disuasión del Departamento de Seguridad del Territorio Nacional
Jul 1, 2008

Maquilas Symptom of Mexico's Dependent Development
Jun 24, 2008

The Dragnet for "Fugitive Aliens"
Jun 20, 2008

Pagando el precio de las medidas severas contra inmigrantes
Jun 17, 2008

Los inmigrantes, bienvenidos a las cárceles de los condados de Estados Unidos
Jun 12, 2008

The Immigrant Bed Bureaucracy
Jun 12, 2008

Homeland Security's Enemy Next Door
Jun 10, 2008

The Deterrence Strategy of Homeland Security
Jun 2, 2008

County Jails Welcome Immigrants
May 27, 2008

Paying the Price of the Immigration Crackdown
May 16, 2008

La verdad sobre la inmigración ilegal y la delincuencia
Feb 12, 2008

Truth about Illegal Immigration and Crime
Jan 18, 2008

Planeando la guerra contra los inmigrantes
Jan 11, 2008

Losing the War of Ideas, Again
Dec 14, 2007

Planning the War on Immigrants
Dec 13, 2007

La falta de respeto de Clinton hacia América Latina
Nov 13, 2007

Clinton's Lack of Respect for Latin America
Nov 1, 2007

Las nuevas políticas de ayuda política en Venezuela
Aug 28, 2007

Whither the "Global Democratic Revolution"?
Jul 31, 2007

The New Politics of Political Aid in Venezuela
Jul 24, 2007

The New Politics of Political Aid in Venezuela
Jul 18, 2007

Putting Friends in High Places
Jul 10, 2007

World Bank Gets Another U.S. Crusader
Jul 6, 2007

Los vientos alisios de Estados Unidos ya no prevalecen
May 8, 2007

Una ética de buena vecindad global para las relaciones internacionales
Apr 13, 2007

U.S. Trade Winds No Longer Prevail
Apr 5, 2007

The Conservative Credibility Test
Apr 3, 2007

Pushing the Anti-Immigration Agenda Further Right
Mar 13, 2007

America's Crusaders
Feb 23, 2007

A visão de Roger Noriega sobre as Américas
Feb 1, 2007

Roger Noriega's Vision of the Americas
Dec 28, 2006

A Global Good Neighbor Ethic for International Relations
Dec 12, 2006

The China Syndrome—A Bipartisan Ailment
Dec 6, 2006

Space: The Phantom Menace
Nov 8, 2006

The Blame Game
Oct 11, 2006

The Politics of Fear
Oct 5, 2006

DIY Energy Policy
Sep 19, 2006

Tacking Right?
Aug 29, 2006

Hunting Monsters with Elliott Abrams
Aug 23, 2006

Abrams in Jerusalem
Aug 23, 2006

The Expanding Anti-Immigration Bandwagon
Aug 12, 2006

"New American Century" Lives On
Aug 7, 2006

U.S. Immigration Debate Splits Conservatives
Aug 2, 2006

Israel's Man at the UN
Jul 26, 2006

Rise and Demise of the "New American Century"
Jun 28, 2006

The "Present Danger" War Parties
Jun 16, 2006

The Neocons Are Talking War—Again
Jun 8, 2006

Tom Tancredo—Christian Crusader, Cultural Nationalist, and Iran Freedom Fighter
May 24, 2006

Iran Freedom and Regime Change Politics
May 19, 2006

Toward A Comprehensive Immigration Policy
Mar 20, 2006

Which Side Are the Republicans On?
Mar 8, 2006

What's FAIR got to do with it?
Jan 19, 2006

Tom Tancredo: Leader of the Anti-Immigrant Populist Revolt
Dec 30, 2005

Transitioning Venezuela
Dec 9, 2005

La Política del Buen Vecino—Una historia de otra visión de la política exterior de Estados Unidos
Oct 13, 2005

Una ética de la buena vecindad para las relaciones internacionales (resumen ejecutivo)
Sep 13, 2005

Una ética de buena vecindad global para las relaciones internacionales
Sep 1, 2005

What to Do About Hugo?
Aug 25, 2005

Immigration Advocates Face Challenges
Aug 24, 2005

Politics of Class and Corporations
Aug 9, 2005

The New Crusade of the Democratic Globalists
Aug 3, 2005

World Movement for Democracy—Made in the USA
Jul 29, 2005

The Crusade of the Democratic Globalists
Jul 14, 2005

Immigration Debate: Politics, Ideologies of Anti-Immigration Forces
Jul 7, 2005

Nuevas prioridades para el Comando Sur
Jul 5, 2005

"Mission Creep" in Latin America—U.S. Southern Command's New Security Strategy
Jul 1, 2005

Southcom Generals Say "Not In Our Backyard"
Jun 20, 2005

Immigration Debate: Politics, Ideologies of Anti-Immigration Forces
Jun 17, 2005

Nuclear Warrior Replaces John Bolton as Arms Control Chief
Jun 13, 2005

Nuclear Warrior Replaces John Bolton as Arms Control Chief
Jun 9, 2005

Whose Side Are You On?
Jun 1, 2005

Remembering FDR and the Four Freedoms
May 26, 2005

What In the World Are We Doing?
May 10, 2005

Wiser Voices
May 10, 2005

U.S. Imperialism, Then and Now
May 1, 2005

A Global Good Neighbor Ethic for International Relations - Executive Summary
May 1, 2005

Cheney's Man Slated to Replace Feith
Apr 20, 2005

Rest Assured--We Will Now Have "Good Intelligence"
Apr 7, 2005

The Good Neighbor Policy—A History to Make Us Proud
Apr 1, 2005

The Good Neighbor Policy— A History to Make Us Proud
Apr 1, 2005

Homeland Security's Chertoff No Friend of Immigrants
Mar 28, 2005

U.S. Mideast Plans
Mar 15, 2005

Al-Ahram Weekly Interview of Tom Barry
Mar 15, 2005

Bolton’s Baggage
Mar 11, 2005

Previsões políticas
Mar 8, 2005

John Negroponte—Policy Hack or Intelligence Reformer?
Mar 1, 2005

John Negroponte—Policy Hack or Intelligence Reformer?
Mar 1, 2005

Un halcón caído vuelve a levantar vuelo
Feb 23, 2005

New Homeland Security Czar’s Legal Dragnet
Feb 22, 2005

The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Elliott Abrams
Feb 18, 2005

Pushing Our Borders Out
Feb 17, 2005

The Foreign Policy Diaspora—From Jerusalem to Washington
Feb 8, 2005

State of Delusion
Feb 7, 2005

Neocons and Liberals Together, Again
Feb 3, 2005

"U.S. Foreign Aid isn't 'Stingy,' it's Tied to Strategic Interests"
Jan 25, 2005

U.S. Isn't "Stingy," It's Strategic
Jan 10, 2005

U.S. Isn't "Stingy," It's Strategic
Jan 7, 2005

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Bush Doctrine Redux
Jan 5, 2005

"Protege América Ahora" y las fuerzas para restringir la migración
Dec 17, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Hawkish Liberalism
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Neoconservatism on the March
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Compassionate Realism
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Neoconservative Realism
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Left-Center Security Strategy
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: Liberal Internationalism Revisited
Dec 13, 2004

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy: New Isolationism
Dec 13, 2004

Restrictionism Resurgent in Post-9/11 Politics: Protect America Now
Dec 3, 2004

Hardliner Hadley Named New National Security Adviser
Nov 17, 2004

Un pronóstico político
Nov 10, 2004

The Next Four Years
Nov 10, 2004

The Trade Debate
Nov 10, 2004

A Political Forecast
Nov 10, 2004

Strategic Dialogue No. 2: The Trade Debate
Nov 1, 2004

Ganan terreno las fuerzas para restringir la inmigración en Estados Unidos
Oct 21, 2004

Immigration Restrictionism Gains Political Clout
Oct 14, 2004

Is Iran Next?
Sep 28, 2004

Is Iran Next?
Sep 28, 2004

Coalition for Democracy in Iran
Sep 27, 2004

Douglas Feith: Portrait of a Neoconservative
Sep 3, 2004

A Critique of Kerry's Latin America Policy
Jul 26, 2004

El Comando Sur Enfrenta Peligros Emergentes y Tradicionales
Jul 24, 2004

Coalition Forces Advance
Jul 24, 2004

Las Fuerzas de la Coalición Avanzan
Jul 24, 2004

U.S. Southern Command Confronts Traditional and Emerging Threats
Jul 24, 2004

Una crítica a la política de John Kerry hacia América Latina
Jul 24, 2004

9/11 Commissioner John Lehman on the War Path
Jul 12, 2004

Washington Tightens Economic Noose and Increases Support to Groups Planning Post-Castro Transition
Jun 25, 2004

A Pledge to Make Us Proud
Jun 15, 2004

Liberal Hawks: Flying in Neocon Circles
May 20, 2004

Un Año Después de la Invasión Bagdad y Más Allá
Apr 28, 2004

The Right's Architecture of Power
Apr 22, 2004

Pax Americana--What's the Alternative
Apr 21, 2004

Final Statement of the BRussells Tribunal
Apr 21, 2004

Long Live NATO
Apr 1, 2004

The NATO Expansion Lobby
Mar 19, 2004

One Year After the Invasion: Baghdad and Beyond
Mar 19, 2004

Leo Strauss and Intelligence Strategy
Feb 12, 2004

Right Web of Intelligence Reformers
Feb 12, 2004

Basic Instincts, Not the Truth: Iraq War Product of Neocon Philosophy of Intelligence
Feb 12, 2004

Office of Special Plans
Feb 12, 2004

Remembering Team B
Feb 12, 2004

What New Mexico Will Swing To
Jan 23, 2004

Sen. Hillary Clinton, L. Paul Bremer and Americans for Victory over Terrorism, Paul Wolfowitz, James Baker, Robert Bartley and Irving Kristol
Dec 17, 2003

Death on the Border
Mar 5, 2003

Our Backyard Pax Americana
Feb 17, 2003

Se Acabó "El Gringo Bueno"
Dec 10, 2002

El complejo de poder: se acabó "el gringo bueno"
Dec 10, 2002

The "Great Evil" and the Great Power
Nov 27, 2002

El retorno de la nación-estado y el Leviatán
Nov 21, 2002

The Terms of Power
Nov 6, 2002

Glossary of the Right-Wing Sectors in U.S. Foreign Policy
Nov 4, 2002

Terms of Power
Nov 1, 2002

The U.S. Power Complex: What's New
Nov 1, 2002

Return of the Nation-State--and the Leviathan
Nov 1, 2002

The Men Who Stole the Show
Oct 1, 2002

A Strategy Foretold
Oct 1, 2002

U.S. Foreign Policy: Shaping Global Affairs
Jul 10, 2002

G8: Failing Model of Global Governance
Jul 1, 2002

No Unilateral Military Strike Against Iraq
Apr 1, 2002

U.S. Foreign Policy Attention, Right Face, Forward March
Apr 1, 2002

A Return to Interventionism
Mar 11, 2002

The New Interventionism
Mar 11, 2002

Scoundrels and Outlaws
Feb 26, 2002

Onward Christian Soldiers
Jan 31, 2002

International Crime, Not War
Sep 12, 2001

Foreign Policy In Focus Response to Terrorism Sign-on Statement
Sep 12, 2001

International Crime, Not War
Sep 12, 2001

Global Economic Governance: Strategic Crossroads
Sep 1, 2001

Something is Happening, Mr. Bush
Aug 1, 2001

Bush Administration is Not Isolationist
Jul 1, 2001

Colombia: Recalling the Backyard Analogy
Jul 1, 2001

G8 and Global Governance
Jul 1, 2001

The Time of Republican Rule
Dec 1, 2000

Populism & Corporate Welfare
Sep 1, 2000

Candidates' Internationalism
Aug 1, 2000

G8/G7 and Global Governance
Jul 1, 2000

Challenges and Conundrums of a New Global Affairs Agenda
Mar 1, 2000

Bombs Away
May 1, 1999

Experts and Organizations
Jan 1, 1998

Europe
Jan 1, 1998

U.S. and Canada
Jan 1, 1998

Africa
Jan 1, 1998

Asia and Pacific Rim
Jan 1, 1998

Latin America
Jan 1, 1998

Middle East
Jan 1, 1998

Overview Bibliography
Jan 1, 1998

Former Soviet Union
Jan 1, 1998

International Cooperation Overview
May 1, 1997

Investment and Competitiveness Overview
May 1, 1997

Foreign Aid
Jan 1, 1997

Aiding the Environment
Apr 1, 1996

Evaluating the First Fifty Years--The UN and the US
Oct 1, 1995

* Note from the FPIF Editor: Although the Advisory Committee shares FPIF's broad principles of internationalism, human rights, anti-militarism, and sustainable development, FPIF doesn't expect all members necessarily to agree with or endorse all the policy prescriptions that we publish.


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