FPIF Advisory Committee Member*

Jim Lobe

contributes regularly to FPIF, Inter Press Service, and One World.net
contact via email

Commentaries and Other Pieces
Authored by This Member

The Arrogance of Power
By Jim Lobe (September 27, 2002)
Former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee J. William Fulbright's observations and warnings appear deeply relevant to the United States under George W. Bush, particularly in the wake of the publication last week of the administration's sweeping National Security Strategy of the United States of America and its request that Congress authorize a war resolution arguably as broad and as unilateral as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution approved in the early stages of the Vietnam War.

Unilateralist Path Scored as Self-Defeating
By Jim Lobe (July 2, 2002)
Some call the present era one of U.S. hegemony. Others, especially in Europe, call it empire.

Right-Wing Hawks Win Big on Middle East
By Jim Lobe, Alternet.org (June 25, 2002)
Bush's speech--which appeared to drive the last nail into the coffin of the nine-year old Oslo peace process--is a major blow to moderates within the administration.

Other Pieces by Jim Lobe on FPIF's website:

(not a complete listing)

U.S. and Israeli Governments Out of Step with Public According to New Polls
by Jim Lobe (May 13, 2002)

Rightwing Ideology and U.S. Military Global Reach Stand Against Criminal Court
by Jim Lobe and Tom Barry (May 7, 2002)

The War on Dissent Widens
by Jim Lobe (March 15, 2002)

U.S. Middle East Policy: "Enough is Enough"
by Jim Lobe and Tom Barry (April 5, 2002)

U.S. Foreign Policy—Attention, Right Face, Forward March
By Tom Barry and Jim Lobe (April 2002)

Hawks Take Aim at Iraq
By Jim Lobe (November 30, 2001)

* 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.