The Deproliferator The 2010 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons review conference is just around the corner. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty awaits ratification by the U.S. Senate. The Fissile Material Cutoff […]
China, Day Nine: Panda diplomacy
Part nine in a series Nothing says “China” quite like a panda. It’s no wonder, then, that the Chinese have used these famous black-and-white faces as emissaries around the world. There’s even […]
The empire strikes back
It is a dark time for the rebellion. Although the Bush administration has been defeated, imperial troops have co-opted groups like MoveOn and vast swaths of the Democratic Party in their continued […]
One Ricks Makes a Wrong
by Jeff Huber Thomas E. Ricks, erstwhile journalist and author of The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, has become the embodiment of the warmongery’s moral […]
Anchors A-waste
by Jeff Huber The U.S. Navy is fumbling a blue and golden opportunity to demonstrate the relevance of its maritime global reach capability (and justify its phony baloney budget) in the age […]
'Burma VJs: Reporting From a Closed Country': Filmmaking at its incendiary best
Technically, Burma’s 2007 Saffron Revolution wasn’t saffron. The term was coined out of deference to the saffron-yellow robes that Buddhist monks in Asia usually wear. The robes of Burmese monks’ robes are, […]
Do sanctions just add insult to injury for the Burmese people?
If you look up the word sanction, the definition that occupies pride of place in most dictionaries is permission or approval for a specific course of action. But, one of those words […]
Brave New World Order
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of […]
Twin-track talks in Burma raise peace hopes
Thailand seeks to mediate peace talks between Burma’s ruling junta and the Karen ethnic group that it’s been trying to wipe out for 60 years. Norway, meanwhile, hopes to heal the rift […]
The Fog of Warmongering
by Jeff Huber We’re a decade into the new American century, the neoconservatives are still leading the country on a march to the cliff, and most of the citizenry still hasn’t caught […]
