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U.S. Foreign Policy
Wrestling on Shaky Ground: Israel, Palestine, and the Decline of a Superpower
| by Adam Keller | Winter 2012 |
Since the beginning of 2011, Israeli politicians, generals, and diplomats displayed a growing nervousness in anticipation of "September," i.e., the proclaimed Palestinian intention to seek a full United Nations Membership for the State of Palestine.
Obama, Austerity, and Change We Really Can Believe In
| by Jack Gerson | Winter 2012 |
Barack Obama took office three years ago on a euphoric wave of aspirations.
New-York Historical Society Sinks to a New Low with a Black-Tie Gala for Henry Kissinger
| Jesse Lemisch | October 24, 2011 |
[Reprinted from the History News Network.]
A ‘Palestinian Spring’? Not Yet.
| Bashir Abu-Manneh | October 17, 2011 |
[This is a revised version of a talk given at a conference sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine held at Columbia University, October 14-16, 2011.]
The al-Awlaki Killing: Rights and Safety Blown to Smithereens
| Steve Shalom | October 4, 2011 |
The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen on Friday by a U.S. drone has elicited cheers from most mainstream politicians and pundits. Civil libertarians, however, have noted the terrible precedent this sets: here an American citizen has been targeted for assassination and executed solely on the say-so of the president, with no need to indict him, or present open evidence of his guilt. If the U.S. government had wanted to tap al-Awlaki's phone, judicial review would have been required.
Talking about race and Haiti
| Lois Weiner | September 10, 2011 |
Though these two pieces about education, one about the terrible way the US is destroying any possibilities for a real system of public education in Haiti, the other reasons the author is NOT talking about race, do not make this connection, they point to the fact that education in the US has to be seen in the context of international policy, and in particular US imperialism, in which racism is pro
The Inner Lives of the Conquerors
| by Sam Kradel | Summer 2011 |
The United States’ status as some form of imperial power is scarcely disputed on the Left. Richard Immerman’s Empire for Liberty: A History of America from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz is not a book written particularly for or from the Left, yet in some respects it goes further in defense of this idea than many leftists have allowed.
The Bard ISM Student Organization Controversy
| by Leon Botstein | Summer 2011 |
Over the past several weeks, Bard College and I as its president have been the object of unsubstantiated, exaggerated, and often vitriolic accusations regarding a student group on campus that has chosen to affiliate itself with an organization called the International Solidarity Movement. Some of those who have posted on blogs and written emails claim that ISM is a "terrorist" organization committed to the destruction of the State of Israel and its people.
CPD Statements on Syria and Israel
| Joanne Landy | June 11, 2011 |
The Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued two statements on June 9, one on the movement for democracy in Syria and the other on Israel's brutal response to unarmed demonstrators.
CPD Salutes Syria's Courageous Democratic Movement
June 9, 2011
Neither Masks nor Gloves
| by Laurie Calhoun | Summer 2011 |
IN 1961, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERwarned about the dangers of capitalized war, how the military-industrial complex was already taking on a life all its own, and the single-minded quest for profit—a virtue under capitalism — would continue to drive weapons companies to exert an untold influence upon politicians. Since that time, the war-making apparatus has expanded both in size and in kind, with ever more partners joining in on the enterprise.