December 2012
Praful Bidwai
Iran has shown itself amenable to diplomacy, while Israel's security establishment advises against military intervention
April 2012
Phyllis Bennis
The U.S. is 11 years into its current war in Afghanistan and still losing. We never had a chance to "win" this war of vengeance – and while few in Washington are ready to admit that, they’ve continued to revise and redefine just what "winning" might look like.
February 2012
Phyllis Bennis
Although political brinksmanship with Iran is nothing new, escalating tensions do not bode well for the region.
June 2011
Ross Eventon
Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.
May 2010
Phyllis Bennis
Renewed U.S. efforts to bring sanctions against Iran are more backlash for being snubbed in favour of a tripartite deal with Turkey and Brazil than they are about nuclear proliferation. A UN Security Council coalition may be able to block U.S. pressure for sanctions that would only punish Iranian civilians.
October 2009
Mariano Aguirre
The tensions over Iran's nuclear programme resemble the prelude to the Iraq war of 2003. But the new conditions of international politics could yet be turned to advantage in finding a solution.
July 2009
Mariano Aguirre
George W Bush made democracy-support a central theme of his presidency. Barack Obama, by contrast, has downplayed it. Yet the latter's approach may achieve more effective results.
June 2009
Phyllis Bennis
Obama's Cairo speech shifted the discourse, away from justifying reckless imperial hubris, unilateralism and militarism and towards a more cooperative and potentially even internationalist approach. It is the task of people across the US to mobilise and turn that new language into new policies.
March 2009
TNI
Fred Halliday
Iran's transformation in 1979 shares characteristics with earlier revolutions in France, Russia, China and Cuba; but it also makes a unique - and unfinished - contribution to world history, says Fred Halliday.
The months of strikes and demonstrations that convulsed Iran in 1978-79 reached a dramatic culmination in the first eleven days of February...
December 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Lawrence Korb and Phyllis Bennis
Although Obama might not change drastically the US foreign policy, he was elected on the promise that he would not only end the war but change the mindset that led to the war, and we should keep reminding him of his promise, argues Phyllis Bennis.
