1. Obama\'s Financial Reform Proposal
(Newsletter)

... Op_ed By MWC NEWS    Tuesday, 23 June 2009 When massive turmoil occurs in an important country, U.S. policymakers struggle to make heads or tails of it and arrive at an appropriate reac...

2. Damn that Lincoln: Abe\'s to blame for Jindal
(Newsletter)

...ime in Any Form Political Views By Marjorie Cohn    Wednesday, 25 February 2009 It Should Not Be U.S. Policy Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after...

3. The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
(Newsletter)

...f is now teetering on the edge of the abyss, just as I predicted in the spring of 2007. He was pushed there by U.S. policy, and worse yet, his country is armed with nukes. To prevent the Pakistani Sup...

4. See how they run--
(Newsletter)

...l Views By MWC NEWS    Friday, 04 May 2007 "Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy" -- The McClatchy Newspaper story pointed out, "Military planners h...

5. Obedience to God or Obedience to Orders?
(Opinions/Politic)

...sion were punished as war crimes at Nuremberg and, therefore, I must refuse to carry out these orders.” Under U.S. policy, what happens when a soldier’s crisis of conscience collides with military or...

6. Why Do Liberals Hate the Poor in Cuba?
(Opinions/Society)

...was not enough to cause Obama, the great believer in democracy, to change half-a-century of a cruel and brutal U.S. policy toward the Cuban people. What this means is that President Obama will contin...

7. Obama Steps Up Drone Raids Despite Death of Civilians
(Opinions/Daily)

...ed lethal force.” Today, Mayer writes, “there is no longer any doubt that targeted killing has become official U.S. policy.” And according to Gary Solis, who teaches at Georgetown University’s Law Cen...

8. Five Facts About Afghanistan
(Opinions/op-ed)

...gn occupier. Incredible news: they already do, and have for eight years. Third, there is a misperception among U.S. policy elites that a troop surge increased stability in Iraq, whereas it was mainly ...

9. Still Meddling After All These Years
(Opinions/op-ed)

...nment’s concern and believe that commercial relations between Americans and Cubans are properly the subject of U.S. policy. They just have different criteria for modifying that policy. Neither recogni...

10. Empathy for ‘Adversaries’
(Opinions/Politic)

...y any democratic revolution in Iran probably wouldn’t attenuate Iran’s desire for a nuclear program. Thus, the U.S. policy of trying to negotiate away Iran’s nuclear capabilities lacks empathy and is ...