Global Affairs Commentary 2004

Date Posted	Title	Author
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12-31-2004	Iraq War is Bad for Business	Jim Lobe
12-20-2004	Options for Ukraine	John Brown
12-10-2004	Congress and the Bush Administration Deepen Assault on International Law	John Gershman
12-10-2004	A New Course in Iraq	Erik Leaver
12-10-2004	Will Calls for Sharing Responsibility in New UN Report Fall on Deaf Ears?	Ian Williams
12-09-2004	Blowback from Iraq War Is Global, and Growing	Ronald Bruce St John
12-08-2004	101 Steps Toward a More Secure World	Don Kraus
12-08-2004	Media Manipulation	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
12-03-2004	U.S. Elections Undermine America in Eastern Europe	Nat Parry
12-01-2004	Mainstream Media Miss Rumsfeld's 'Dirty Wars' Talk	Jim Lobe
11-26-2004	Iraq and the U.S. Legacy	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
11-26-2004	Intelligent Intelligence Reform	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
11-19-2004	Reading Harry Reid: New Democratic Leader in Senate Unlikely to Oppose Bush Administration’s Foreign Policy Agenda	Stephen Zunes
11-15-2004	Violence Returns to Cote d’Ivoire	Abdoulaye Dukule
11-11-2004	Palestine Greater Than Arafat	Sam Bahour
11-11-2004	Neocon Wish List	Jim Lobe
11-11-2004	Arafat Was the Excuse, Not the Reason, for the Failure of the Peace Process	Stephen Zunes
11-08-2004	The Iraq Quagmire Deepens	Erik Leaver
11-04-2004	J'accuse: War Crimes & Iraq	Conn Hallinan
11-03-2004	Weaving Constraints on an Easy Empire	John Gershman
10-29-2004	Taking Stock of 100,000 Iraqi Deaths	Amy Quinn
10-29-2004	For Scary Halloween Reading, Dig Deeper into the Duelfer Report	Michael Roston
10-27-2004	Settlers' Bust	Michael Dahan
10-25-2004	Balancing Security and Democracy: Lessons from Indonesia	Frida Berrigan
10-22-2004	Switching the Strategic Focus of American Public Diplomacy: Forget Battles, Think Bridges	R.S. Zaharna
10-21-2004	Apply “Libya Model” to Iran and Syria	Ronald Bruce St John
10-18-2004	Indecision on Iraq?	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
10-13-2004	Security Scholars Say Iraq War Most Misguided Policy Since Vietnam	Jim Lobe
10-12-2004	Kerry vs. Bush: A Humphrey-Nixon Redux?	Stephen Zunes
10-11-2004	House Republicans and Democrats Unite in Linking Iraq with 9/11	Stephen Zunes
10-06-2004	When "Scores" Count	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
10-06-2004	When Turn About Isn't Fair Play	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
10-05-2004	While Criticizing Implementation, Kerry Endorses Bush’s Unilateralist Agenda	Stephen Zunes
10-01-2004	Election Year Brings Competing Debt Relief Proposals	Todd Tucker
9-29-2004	Expect No Change in Second Term Foreign Policy	Ronald Bruce St John
9-28-2004	Crazy Mike in "Indian Country"	Jim Lobe
9-24-2004	Time for Bush to Walk the Talk	Ronald Bruce St John
9-22-2004	The "G" Word: Genocide	Ian Williams
9-22-2004	President Bush's UN Speech: Idealistic Rhetoric Disguises Sinister Policies	Stephen Zunes
9-21-2004	The Crisis in Darfur: This Wolf is Real & Nobody's Listening	Salih Booker
9-15-2004	Indonesia: U.S. Underwriting Terrorism?	Conn Hallinan
9-15-2004	Lebanon No Model for Iraq	Ronald Bruce St John
9-08-2004	The Iraq Jobs Crisis: Workers Seek Their Own Voice	John Howley
9-07-2004	Douglas Feith: Portrait of a Neoconservative	Tom Barry
9-07-2004	Separating Libyan Facts from Bush Fiction	Ronald Bruce St John
9-03-2004	Toward a U.S. Exit Strategy from Iraq and a Transition to Full Sovereignty	Imad Salamey and Frederick Pearson
8-30-2004	Ripples From the Schlesinger Report	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
8-30-2004	Bolivia's Referendum About More Than Gas	Ronald Bruce St John
8-18-2004	Into the Valley	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
8-16-2004	Chávez Reconfirmed, Venezuelan Opposition Should Be Careful What They Wish For	Todd Tucker
8-05-2004	Bosnia: The Limits of External Regulation	Roberto Belloni
8-05-2004	When Intervention is Necessary, Who Can You Call?	Salih Booker
8-05-2004	Democratic Party Platform Shows Shift to the Right on Foreign Policy	Stephen Zunes
8-02-2004	High Time Bush Defines the Enemy	Ronald Bruce St John
7-30-2004	Posing the Right Question	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
7-28-2004	Iraq's Labor Upsurge Wins Support from U.S. Unions	David Bacon
7-21-2004	They're Back: Neocons Revive the Committee on the Present Danger, This Time against Terrorism	Jim Lobe
7-16-2004	The Disappointing Selection of John Edwards, a Foreign Policy Hawk	Stephen Zunes
7-12-2004	Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules	Conn Hallinan
7-12-2004	Tear Down That Wall, Mr. Sharon	Ian Williams
7-08-2004	From Iraq to Asia-the Butterfly Effect	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
7-06-2004	After a Decade of Democracy in South Africa-A New Generation of Struggle	Andre Banks and Devanne Brookins
7-06-2004	Talking Peace and Kashmir-Warily, Under a Nuclear Shadow	Praful Bidwai
7-02-2004	The World Bank's Great Gamble in Central Africa	Leif Brottem
6-29-2004	Corporate Welfare for Jumbo Shrimp	Andrew Wells-Dang
6-25-2004	Congress Overwhelmingly Endorses Ariel Sharon's Annexation Plans	Stephen Zunes
6-22-2004	Human Rights Groups Call on the U.S. to Lead Troops Into Sudan's Darfur and End Genocide	Jim Lobe
6-21-2004	Bring Our Troops Home (from Korea)	John Feffer
6-18-2004	Law of the Sea Being Delayed by Far Right Cadre	Jim Lobe
6-18-2004	Guatemala and the Forgotten Anniversary	Arnold J. Oliver
6-17-2004	Is the Neocon Reign Over?	Jim Lobe
6-16-2004	Pakistan under Musharraf: Democracy Endangered	Bushra Asif
6-16-2004	Of Resolutions and Rhetoric, of Promises and Performance	Ian Williams
6-16-2004	Don't Credit Reagan for Ending the Cold War	Stephen Zunes
6-10-2004	Pentagon Report Argues Torture is Legal in War on Terror	Jim Lobe
6-09-2004	Tenet Resignation Exposes Accelerating Intrigue Within Bush Administration	Jim Lobe
6-07-2004	Getting Peacekeeping Right at the G-8	Don Kraus
6-07-2004	Charging on in Iraq-But Which Way?	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
6-03-2004	Blackmail Efforts of the Bush Administration at the UN End in Failure This Time	Ian Williams
6-03-2004	Bush Administration Seeks UN Escape Hatch	Ian Williams
5-28-2004	Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide	Edward S. Herman
5-28-2004	The Yugoslavian Fairy Tale	George Szamuely
5-27-2004	The Real "Scary Movie" Won't Be on Elm Street This Summer	Nancy Snow
5-26-2004	Bush & Sharon: The Oil Connection	Conn Hallinan
5-26-2004	Bush's AIDS relief plan will delay drugs, reward Big Pharma	Jim Lobe
5-26-2004	The Resolutionary Road to a Transition in Iraq	Ian Williams
5-25-2004	President Bush's May 24 Speech on Iraq: A Critique	Stephen Zunes
5-24-2004	Bush Policies Make Terrorism a Growth Industry	Ronald Bruce St John
5-19-2004	Prisoner Abuse Calls into Question America's Position of Moral 'Exceptionalism'	Jim Lobe
5-18-2004	Outsourcing Torture and the Problems of "Quality Control"	Charles Knight
5-18-2004	The Defense of "Command Influence"	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
5-18-2004	Is the UN Back?	Ian Williams
5-13-2004	Ex-Diplomats Protest Bush's Anti-Palestinian Policies	Jim Lobe
5-13-2004	A Debacle in the Battle for Hearts and Minds	Pascale Combelles Siegel
5-13-2004	How Long a War?	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
5-03-2004	It's Our Party (and We'll Cheer If We Want To)	John Feffer
4-30-2004	Intelligence Questions in North Korea	Karin Lee and Adam Miles
4-29-2004	Of Rumor and Reality	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
4-27-2004	Sorry, Mr. President, but Iraq looks a lot like Vietnam	Ronald Bruce St John
4-26-2004	Bush Endorsement of Sharon Proposal Undermines Peace and International Law	Stephen Zunes
4-21-2004	The Release of Mordechai Vanunu and U.S. Complicity in the Development of Israel's Nuclear Arsenal	Stephen Zunes
4-13-2004	U.S. Funds Aid Chávez Opposition	Bart Jones
4-12-2004	Of Testimony and Terrorism: 9/11 Commission Testimony Reveals Bush Administration Lacked Focus on Terrorism Prior to Attacks	Mel Goodman
4-09-2004	From Iraqi Occupation to Islamic Reformation: Neocons Aim Beyond Baghdad	Jim Lobe
4-09-2004	Neoconservatives Try to Suggest that Sadr Uprising is "Made in Tehran"	Jim Lobe
4-08-2004	Afghanistan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	Bushra Asif
4-08-2004	Europe Protests Bitter Cuts	David Bacon
4-07-2004	Rise of the Machines	Conn Hallinan
4-07-2004	The Psychology of War: Iraq and Vietnam	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
4-06-2004	Limited War Now Versus Civil War Later?	Jim Lobe
4-02-2004	Defense of Israeli Assassination Policy by the Bush Administration and Democratic Leaders an Affront to International Law and Israeli Security	Stephen Zunes
3-31-2004	Anti-Terrorist Security Sweep In Pakistan Winding Down	Abubaker Saddique
3-25-2004	Implications of the Seventh Majlis Elections in Iran	Christopher Boucek
3-22-2004	Secrecy: The Real Mother of Terror	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
3-18-2004	Rendering an Account on Iraq	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
3-16-2004	Petition to Congress on the Plight of Haiti in Light of Destabilization	FPIF
3-15-2004	Colombia: Old Domino's New Clothes	Conn Hallinan
3-12-2004	It's Time to Engage, Not Isolate, Syria	Ronald Bruce St John
3-11-2004	Spending Under Fire	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
2-20-2004	Guatemalan Woman's Asylum Case a Major Test for Ashcroft's Position on Women's Rights	Jim Lobe
2-20-2004	Zarqawi Letter Complicates War Hawks Efforts to Link al Qaeda with Hussein, Iran	Jim Lobe
2-19-2004	Foreign Aid Budget Looks Like a Retread from the Cold War	Jim Lobe
2-19-2004	Milosevic and Genocide: Has the Prosecution Made the Case?	Stacy Sullivan
2-16-2004	Why NEPAD and African Politics Don't Mix	Ian Taylor
2-13-2004	Standing Up For Workers' Rights	Stewart Acuff
2-12-2004	The Politics and the Promise of Civilizational Dialogues	Muqtedar Khan
2-10-2004	Sharon's Judenrein	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
2-10-2004	Israeli Wall on Trial: Venue Shifts to the International Court of Justice	Ian Williams
2-05-2004	Iraqi Governing Council Plans Latest Assault on Women's Rights in Iraq	Jim Lobe
2-05-2004	Why So Many Were So Wrong For So Long	Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.)
2-03-2004	The Trouble With CAFTA	Mark Engler
2-03-2004	Nepal & the Bush Administration: Into Thin Air	Conn Hallinan
2-03-2004	Blair's Pyrrhic Victories	Ian Williams
2-02-2004	Talking Points: The U.S. Begs for UN Backing in Iraq	Phyllis Bennis
1-29-2004	Bush Administration Faces Growing Chaos in Iraq While Some Plan Expansion of War	Jim Lobe
1-29-2004	Will Dubya Dump Dick?	Jim Lobe
1-28-2004	Green Finance Campaign Bags Citigroup	Jim Lobe
1-23-2004	Eritrea/Ethiopia War Looms as Washington Watches & Waits	Dan Connell
1-23-2004	Bush and Bremer Blinked	Ian Williams
1-21-2004	Misleading Rhetoric in 2004 State of the Union Address	Stephen Zunes
1-15-2004	Libyan Disarmament a Positive Step, but Threat of Proliferation Remains	Stephen Zunes
1-13-2004	In 2003 TV News was All Iraq, All the Time	Jim Lobe
1-13-2004	In Iraq, Timing Is Everything	Ronald Bruce St John

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