May 1, 2009
Jacques Hersh is professor emeritus of Aalborg University, Denmark and former head of the Research Center on Development and International Relations there. The celebrations on the occasion of the sixtieth… READ MORE
March 1, 2008
This month marks the fifth year of the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq, which commenced on March 19, 2003. Despite setbacks for the U.S. empire, including unexpected losses in… READ MORE
December 1, 2007
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy (Routledge, 2006) and Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (Hurst,… READ MORE
November 1, 2007
Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan’s new book The Age of Turbulence (Penguin 2007) set off a firestorm in mid-September with its dramatic statement on the Iraq War: “I… READ MORE
July 1, 2007
At the end of May the Bush administration announced that the United States is planning on maintaining permanent military bases in Iraq on a model like that of South Korea,… READ MORE
June 1, 2007
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. � Steven H. Miles, M.D., Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror… READ MORE
May 1, 2007
Recent attempts, however tentative, by Congressional Democrats to establish a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq should be looked upon as a victory for the antiwar… READ MORE
March 1, 2007
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. This essay is adapted from “After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies,” eds. Priyamvada Gopal & Neil Lazarus, special issue New Formations, 59 (Fall 2006)…. READ MORE
December 1, 2006
In a survey of the Iraqi population, the results of which were released last June, 76 percent of those surveyed gave as their first choice “to control Iraqi oil” when… READ MORE
April 1, 2006
As we write this in late February, threats of a U.S. military intervention in Iran are intensifying in response to Washington’s claims that Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons… READ MORE
