Biden and Putin should seek a Cuban-missile-style compromise in which NATO allies agree to negotiate the security guarantees that Russia seeks and Putin, in turn, pledges to forego an invasion of Ukraine
The fatal flaw is the false patriotism of following the lead of the serial insanity of our war-making leaders
Howard Friel is author most recently of The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight on Global Warming (Yale University Press, 2010), and…
Howard Friel is the author most recently of The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming (Yale University Press, 2010),…
Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions…
I. In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state…
Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that…
Howard Friel is coauthor with Richard Falk of The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy…
On August 1, 2006, in the wake of Israel’s bombing of a house in Qana, in southern Lebanon, which killed at least…
During the first two months of 2008, Israeli security forces killed 146 Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, 42 of which did not…
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