No Going BackLittle relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis
Nir Rosen
One explanation for why the international community has been slow to act is that is has been waiting for U.S. leadership. But for the U.S. to acknowledge the size and seriousness of the humanitarian disaster in Iraq would be to admit that the recent [...]

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‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’
Because the Israel lobby has gradually become one of the most powerful interest groups in the United States, candidates for high office pay close attention to its wishes. The individuals and groups in the United States that make up the lobby care deeply about Israel, and they do [...]

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The Lobby and U.S. Middle East Policy

Because the Israel lobby has gradually become one of the most powerful interest groups in the United States, candidates for high office pay close attention to its wishes. The individuals and groups in the United States that make up the lobby care deeply about Israel, and they do not want American politicians to criticize it, [...]

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Sunni Insurgents in New Campaign to Kill Officials
BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 — Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal leaders throughout Iraq, staging at least 10 attacks in 48 hours.
Eight policemen have been killed, among them the police chief of Baquba, [...]

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Private Security Puts Diplomats, Military at Odds
BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 — A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in [...]

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President Lee C. Bollinger’s Introductory Remarks at SIPA-World Leaders Forum with President of Iran Mahmoud AhmadinejadSept. 24, 2007
I would like to begin by thanking Dean John Coatsworth and Professor Richard Bulliet for their work in organizing this event and for their commitment to the role of the School of International and Public Affairs and its [...]

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Greenspan memoir links Iraq war to US thirst for oil
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, for years an inscrutable seer on the economy, is causing a stir by alleging in his new memoir that “the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
Greenspan, who as head of the US central bank was famous [...]

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Why failure is the new face of success
Lieutenant General Peter W Chiarelli, the top US field commander in Iraq, explained that “we need to put the angry young men to work …. A relatively small decrease in unemployment would have a very serious effect on the level of sectarian killing going on.” He couldn’t help [...]

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US-Orchestrated Iraqi Oil Bill StalledIn December 2006, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group fronted by James Baker issued its long-awaited report. It called for the US to “assist Iraqi leaders to reorganise the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise” and to “encourage investment in Iraq’s oil sector by the international community and by international energy [...]

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Could a Vietnamese Court Fine the U.S. $ Trillions for a Thousand 9/11 Equivalents?
Likewise is the general public to this day uniformed of the CIA and Saudi millions of dollars which paid for the founding of thousands of extreme fundamentalist study centers and schools in Afghanistan, with substantial amounts going directly to al Qaida associates. [...]

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