News and Views: US Foreign Policy
- G8: Poverty Reduction and Climate Change Inextricably Linked, Say Activists (Moyiga Nduru, Inter Press Service)
- IRAQ: Women forced to give up their jobs, marriages (IRIN News)
- Another Wolf for the World Bank (Sarah Anderson, TomPaine.com)
- 'Democracy' is Hell (Katha Pollitt, The Nation)
- Sacrificial Wolfie (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- US Trying to Weaken G-8 Climate Change Declaration (Juliet Eilperin, Boston Globe)
- Women Under Attack: The Talibanization of Iraq (Bay Fang, AlterNet)
- Keeping academics out of Cuba (Wayne S. Smith, Baltimore Sun)
- World Bank Approves Family Planning Policy Without Changes (Feminist Daily News Wire)
- House Passes Resolution to Address Femicide in Guatemala (Feminist Daily News Wire)
- Cuba Call-in Days: May 1 & 2 (PDF)
- Baghdad Burning: "The Great Wall of Segregation" (Riverbend, Girl Blog from Iraq)
- The Hidden Face of the War (Gustavo Capdevila, Inter Press Service)
- Governing the Womb (Ellen Goodman, TruthDig.com)
- The US has Returned Fundamentalism to Afghanistan (Malalai Joya, Common Dreams)
- Militarizing the Border (Frida Berrigan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements (Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Welcome To The Other Latin America (Martha Burk, TomPaine.com)
- Salvador Option Surfaces Again (Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive)
- The New US Command for Africa will Militarize the Continent (Salim Lone, Guardian/UK)
- Bush in Latin America: A Dark Underbelly of Mass Graves and Electoral Fraud (Isabel Hilton, Guardian/UK)
- Iraq: Rape Cases Emerge From the Shadows (Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- Voices of Protest (Karen Houppert, The Nation)
- March on Washington: January 27 (United for Peace and Justice)
- Protesting Guantanamo (Frida Berrigan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- The Ciudad Juarez Declaration and the New Wave of Border Activism (Kent Paterson, IRC Americas Program)
- January 11: International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo
- U.N. Ambassador's Oily Past (Phyllis Bennis, TomPaine.com)
- Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007 (John Leonard, The Nation)
- Behind The Gaza Breakdown (Chris Toensing, TomPaine.com)
- IRAQ: It's Hard Being a Woman (Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- John Bolton's Greatest Hits (Ian Williams, The Nation)
- Bush Pick Threatens Women's Health (Roberta Riley, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Op-Ed)
- Challenging the "Luxury" of Abstinence (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- Militarizing Immigration For Profit (Roberto Lovato, TomPaine.com)
- Bush Loses Election in Ecuador (Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive)
- Ollie North Returns to Nicaragua (Greg Grandin, AlterNet)
- Republicans Plan Lame-Duck Peru Trade Vote (Sarah Anderson and Sara Grusky, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Affirmative Action, Immigrants Rights Lose Big at Ballot Box (Aaron Glantz, OneWorld)
- The Terrorists Who Aren't in the News (Jennifer Pozner, AlterNet)
- Bush's Failed Liberation Theology (Parastou Hassouri, TomPaine.com)
- The Return of Daniel Ortega (Mark Engler, The Nation)
- Washington's Role In Nicaragua Still a Scandal (Mark Weisbrot, ZNet)
- Guatemala: Two Months of CAFTA (Umberto Mazzei, IRC Americas Program)
- Targeting Nicaraguans' Stomachs (Ben Beachy, Common Dreams)
- Indigenous Border Summit Opposes Border Wall and Militarization (Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program)
- Fencing Them Out... (Jessica Lee, The Indypendent)
- 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War (Jonathan Bor, Baltimore Sun)
- US tightens Cuba trade sanctions (BBC News)
- Rep. Burton in Nicaragua: Speaking Loudly and Carrying the Same Big Stick (Brynne Keith-Jennings, Common Dreams)
- Under the Radar Screen—Rape and Sexualized Violence and the Geneva Conventions (Rhonda Copelon, Women's Media Center)
- Appeasement Driven by Oil: The Bush Administration and Darfur (David Morse, TomDispatch.com)
- Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America (Juan Antonio Montecino, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Human Rights Groups Unanimously Assail New Detention Law (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- [Antiterrorism Bill on Detainees, Geneva Conventions]: Rushing Off a Cliff (New York Times Editorial)
- Mexico urges Bush to veto U.S. border fence bill (Greg Brosnan, Reuters)
- Boeing Is Awarded Border Contract (Peter Pae, Los Angeles Times)
- SUDAN/US: Activists Glum Despite Approval of Sanctions (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Turning Back the Clock on Rape (New York Times Editorial)
- Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act (Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, The Nation)
- [Free-Trade Agreements] An update from bilaterals.org (GRAIN)
- The Katrina Anniversary (Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn Magazine)
- U.S. Trade Sanctions Seek to Pressure Latin America (Ariela Ruiz Caro, IRC Americas Program)
- The Future Of The AIDS Fight (Naina Dhingra, TomPaine.com)
- Fidel’s Health and Implications for U.S. Policy (Mavis Anderson, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- A Crude Awakening for Women (Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine)
- Gates Breaks Ranks with Attack on US AIDS Policy (Sarah Boseley, Guardian/UK)
- U.S. Warrior Princesses Condi and Hillary (Zillah Eisenstein, Women's Human Rights net)
- US Military Assistance and Arms Transfers to Israel (World Policy Institute, Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung)
- U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis (David S. Cloud and Helene Cooper, The New York Times)
- The Hidden War on Women in Iraq (Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch.com)
- The United States and Cuba—Strands of a Failed Policy (Mavis Anderson, IRC Americas Program )
- Democrats Versus the Peace Movement? (Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Supreme Court Blocks Trials at Guantanamo (The New York Times)
- Shut Down Guantanamo and Stop Torture (NYC Events: June 25 & 26)
- No Permanent Bases: Passed Both Houses, Removed in Conference Committee (David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org)
- Guantanamo's First Suicides Pressure US (Julian E. Barnes and Carol J. Williams, The Los Angeles Times)
- Resist this US backlash against Cuba (Ian Gibson, The Guardian)
- Toward a Third Intifada (Fred Schlomka, Baltimore Sun)
- A Flagging Commitment on AIDS (New York Times Editorial)
- Aids, America, abstinence... (Oliver Duff, The Independent (UK))
- Cuba Working Group: Principles for a Sound Cuba Policy
- War on Terror ‘Undermining Human Rights’ (Sarah Witt, Financial Times)
- COLOMBIA: Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US (Constanza Vieira, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Fears and Hopes Raised by Free Trade with US (Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service)
- Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors for Border Control (Eric Lipton, The New York Times)
- March for Immigrant Rights (May 20, NYC)
- UN: US Should Close Gitmo Facility (The Associated Press)
- Iraq: A parallel universe (Paul Rogers, openDemocracy)
- UK Attorney General calls for Guantanamo to close (Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend, The Observer )
- 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe (Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News)
- Torture "widespread" under U.S. custody: Amnesty (Reuters)
- Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than the U.S. (Blake Fleetwood, The Huffington Post)
- Halliburton's Immigrant Detention Centers (Ruth Conniff, The Progressive)
- Iran: The Day After (Phyllis Bennis, Common Dreams)
- U.S. Farm Subsidies Hurting Africa's Development (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- Protests Turn the Tide on Immigration Debate (Laura Carlsen, IRC Americas Program)
- Washington Cuts All Aid to Palestinian Authority (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Iraq Left to Rebuild Itself (William Fisher, Inter Press Service)
- Politicizing Aid (Mark Engler, Common Dreams)
- More Than 500,000 Rally in L.A. for Immigrants' Rights (Teresa Watanabe and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times)
- Exporting Homophobia (Nicole Makris, AlterNet)
- "BRING 'EM HOME NOW!" A concert to end the war... (NYC, March 20)
- CAFTA's Corpse Revived (Mark Engler, The Nation)
- Human Rights Hypocrisy (Marjorie Cohen, t r u t h o u t)
- Guantanamo closure call rejected (BBC News)
- Close Guantanamo Now, UN Tells White House (David Usborne and Ben Russell, Independent / UK)
- U.S. Cuts Funds for Family Planning Overseas, Stirring Opposition (Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times)
- Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations (Michael Depp, Reuters)
- Erasing the Lines: Trends in U.S. Military Programs with Latin America
- POLITICS-HAITI: U.S. Hopes for Smooth Elections (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Alito Confirmation Marks Shift to the Right (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemala Rejects CAFTA-DR Terms (Prensa Latina)
- United Nations: U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote
- Beyond the Ballot (Noam Chomsky, Khaleej Times)
- New Year Sees Delay in CAFTA Implementation (Todd Tucker, Americas Program, IRC)
- U.S. is Still Undermining Haiti (Mark Weisbrot, The Providence Journal)
- Witness Against Torture: A March to Visit the Prisoners of Guantánamo
- The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it (George Monbiot, The Guardian)
- U.N. Food Expert Condemns U.S. Tactics in Iraq (Eulàlia Iglesias, Inter Press Service)
- U.N. Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- The Bush Effect: U.S. Military Involvement in Latin America Rises, Development and Humanitarian Aid Fall (Frida Berrigan and Jonathan Wingo, World Policy Institute)
- AMERICAS: Counter-Summit Celebrates Rollback of US Influence (Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service)
- PERU: Veteran Soldiers, Police Recruited for Iraq by U.S. Contractors (Ángel Páez, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemalans wary of military aid; US and other regional countries agreed last week to form a relief force (Jill Replogle, The Christian Science Monitor)
- FRONTLINE: The Torture Question (October 18)
- Brooklyn Peace Fair (October 22)
- Latin Nations Rejecting US-Led Reforms (Mark Weisbrot, The Providence Journal)
- Shades of FEMA's Brown in Bush Pick (Ken Silverstein, Los Angeles Times)
- Permanent Occupation (Rep. Barbara Lee, In These Times)
- US forces 'out of control', says Reuters chief (Julia Day, Guardian Unlimited)
- U.S. has sanctioned torture for too long (Jennifer K. Harbury, Newsday Editorial)
- Bush Jihad Against UNFPA Enters Fourth Year (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Bring Them Home Now Tour: Cindy Sheehan in New York, September 18-20
- Women Under Siege, At Home and Abroad (Katherine Stapp, Inter Press Service)
- Ending Tyranny, The Bush Way (Frida Berrigan, AlterNet)
- Dire conditions unacceptable only in the United States? (Lois Melina, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- A Declaration Of War (Phyllis Bennis, TomPaine.com)
- Bush's Other Iraq Invasion (Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet)
- The US vs The UN (David Usborne, The Independent)
- The Other Half: Women and HIV/AIDS (Babatunde Osotimehin, New York Times)
- Iraq: The Human Toll (David Cortright, The Nation)
- Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President (Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times)
- PARAGUAY: U.S. Military Presence Stirs Speculation (Alejandro Sciscioli, Inter Press Service)
- CAFTA Squeaker Shows Anxiety over Free Trade (Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service)
- Activists See CAFTA as Gift to Big Pharma (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Cuba: Bush's 'generous' offer is a joke (Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News)
- Ghosts of the 1915 U.S. Invasion Still Haunt Haiti's People (Edwidge Danticat, Miami Herald)
- Bush Overstates Africa Aid Increase (David Bryden, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- At the U.N., a Growing Republican Presence (Colum Lynch, Washington Post)
- Aristide in Exile (Naomi Klien, The Nation)
- Stop US Funding of Israel's Illegal Wall (Jewish Voice for Peace)
- Senate Approves Controversial CAFTA (Susan Milligan, Boston Globe)
- The U.S. Occupation and Rising Religious Extremism: The Double Threat to Women in Iraq (Anissa Hélie, ZNet)
- A Rape in the Making (Stephen Gowans)
- July Fourth Action to Close Guantanamo Detention Center
- Sign the national petition on Cuba travel (Latin America Working Group)
- A Noose, Not a Bracelet (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush (John Vidal, The Guardian)
- 3 million reasons to act for Africa (Kevin Williams, International Herald Tribune)
- 'War on Terror' Has Latin American Indigenous People in Its Sights (Gustavo González, Inter Press Service)
- National Call-in Days to Cancel Debt at the G-8 Summit: June 7 & 29
- An Epidemic Failure (Geraldine Sealey, Salon.com)
- MADRE joins over 300 organizations in signing letter to new World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz (50 Years is Enough)
- The Other Wars: United States Foreign Policy In The Western Hemisphere (Harry Targ, Portside)
- Code Pink Book Tour Visits New York City
- Massacre in Colombian Peace Community (School of the Americas Watch)
- Democracy, What Democracy? Troops Out Now (Laura Flanders, The Laura Flanders Show)
- Getting the Purple Finger (Naomi Klein, The Nation)