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U.S. Foreign Policy
Movie Review: “Death by China,” a film by Peter Navarro
| Dan La Botz September 20, 2012 |
To call this feature-length film xenophobic, fear-mongering and hysterical almost understates the case. The whole thing is so over-the-top that, like a bad horror movie where you can see the strings moving the monster, it leaves us numbed and bored or perhaps laughing. Yet it’s not funny.
NY Times Obituary for Michael Wreszin, New Politics contributor
| Joanne Landy September 17, 2012 |
In a surprisingly warm and positive obituary, the New York Times noted the death of Michael Wreszin in August of this year. The obit says of Wrezin's writings, "His subjects were cosmopolitan, humanist thinkers who saw a growing militarism in American political culture but whose scrupulous habits of mind could make them misfits in the ideological camps they joined.” Mike Wreszin was a frequent contributor to New Politics. We miss him already.
U.S. Economic Imperialism and Resistance from the Global South: A Prelude to OWS
| by Francis Shor | Summer 2012 |
It is generally agreed that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a response to decades of economic inequality in the United States. However, to focus only on the national dynamics of U.S. capitalism is to neglect the global role of U.S. economic imperialism since the 1970s and the resistance that developed in the global South to specific instances of that economic imperialism. This paper will consider how imperialist policies promoted by U.S. sponsored agencies and activities engaged in by U.S. corporations’ elicited acts of resistance.
Some Lessons of 1989's East European Revolutions: Reflections of a U.S. Peace Activist
| by Joanne Landy | Summer 2012 |
In the 1980s, the U.S.-based Campaign for Peace and Democracy/East and West was deeply involved in the struggle for "détente from below." CPD/EW collaborated with the European Nuclear Disarmament network to build solidarity and mutual support between, on the one hand, peace groups and progressive trade unionists in the West and, on the other hand, the democratic movements in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Some Lessons of 1989's East European Revolutions: Reflections of a U.S. Peace Activist
| Joanne Landy May 25, 2012 |
[This article will appear in the forthcoming summer 2012 print issue of New Politics.]
BAHRAIN UPDATE
| by Campaign for Peace and Democracy | Winter 2012 |
CPD’s statement "End U.S. Support for Bahrain’s Repressive Government" was signed by more than 1900 people, including several hundred Bahrainis, and was widely circulated in this country and Bahrain.
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.]