Far from embodying any dramatic changes, President Obama’s foreign policy has thus far tended toward continuity or worse in most major areas.…
Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2008 [orig. 2007]). Bad…
Each fall the Chilean non-profit polling organization Latinobarómetro publishes a detailed Spanish-language report on public opinion in Latin America. The 2008 report,…
As the United States occupation of Iraq approaches the six-year mark, the US government faces ever-increasing constraints on its ability to control…
[A summary of the following article recently appeared in NACLA Report on the Americas as part of the magazine’s Media Accuracy on…
Today’s edition of Democracy Now! did a pretty good job of covering the protest led by Iraq Veterans Against the War…
There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an…
Since the late 1940s the common justifications for President Truman’s decision to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have consisted…
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that Democratic politicians must support policies of war and militarism if they wish to maintain popularity, the…
Earlier today the annual National Memorial Day Parade took place in Washington, DC. Every year veterans from around the country gather to…
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