Zbigniew Brzezinski

Brzezinski: West Needs a Long-Term Sense of Purpose

Nathan Gardels | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Arab World, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Turkey, US Foreign Policy, Middle East, European Union, Europe, Eu, Asia, China, Foreign Policy, World News

"While the last several centuries did involve a struggle for global domination, and the last 20 years saw a brief moment in which America was globally supreme, we are now entering a phase in which no power is likely to be truly supreme."

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WATCH: Former Carter Aide Calls For List Of Wealthy People Who Hide Their Money

The Huffington Post | Jade Walker | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Jury Du Prix Tocqueville Prize, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Video, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Two years ago, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted that rising unemployment rates and the growing inequality between the classes could lead to clashes in th...

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Reading the Shah, and Ayatollahs in Tehran and What the U.S. Should Learn From the History

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Cia, Ann Lamton, Ayatollah Khomeini, Reza Shah, The Revolutionary Guards, American Embassy in Tehran, Ali Khaenei, Mohammad Khatami, The Shah, William Sullivan, World News

What has been the root of the U.S'. inability to develop a sustainable strategy on Iran for the last 30 years? Dr. Abbas Milani, author of The Shah, and the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford answers.

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Hu's on First? Key US-China Summit Ahead

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Asia Pacific, US Infrastructure Deficit, Human Rights, Robert Gates, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Deng Xiaoping, Hillary Clinton, US-China Relations, China, Beijing Olympic Games, Economic Corruption, Barack Obama, US Jobs Deficit, Politics News

US-China relations -- no matter the posture that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton or Bob Gates would prefer -- remain complicated and fragile, making the upcoming summit all the more momentous.

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The Wall Street Journal understands history, when will the rest of the American media?

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jan a.P. Kaczmarek, Lech Walesa, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Marcy Kaptur, Norman Davies, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Radoslaw Sikorski, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, David Harris, Media News

The Wall Street Journal gets it: Auschwitz was not a Polish concentration camp. The paper has officially changed its style guide to make sure that rep...

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When Right-Wing Christians and Neocons Loved Islamic Jihadists

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Taliban, Afghanistan, C.I.A., Afghanistan War, World News

The anti-Muslim vitriol emanating from American cultural conservatives and right-wing Christians about Park51 is quite interesting when compared to the deep-seated love of Islamic jihad they felt just decades ago.

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Obama's Next Gulf Crisis

Daniel Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Ideas Festival, Persian Gulf, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Gates, Middle East, President-Obama-Iran, President Obama, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Security Council, Israel, Leon Panetta, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Yousef Al-Otaiba, United Arab Emirates, World News

During this summer of fouled marshlands, the issue of Iran has receded quietly into the shadows. Obama might soon find himself longing for the days when his biggest problem was plugging a "damn hole" on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

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America's DNA profile has been all over Afghanistan since 1973

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Kayani, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Pakistani Army Chief, Hamid Karzai and the Taliban, Oil-Rich Medieval Middle-East Sheikdoms, CIA's Secret Mission, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Islamization of Pakistan, Rising Communist China, Bill of Rights-Busting USA Patriot Act, World News

In the two years since the publication of our book Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story we have had the chance to address dozens of forums an...

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The Case for a One-State Solution

Ahmed Moor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Middle East Peace, World News

Because the two-state solution is morally and practically unworkable, the one-state solution is the only outcome that satisfies basic American values of freedom of speech, race-blindness, and equality under the law.

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Brzezinski: Israeli Expansion of Settlements Is Against U.S. National Interest

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Settlements in Palestine, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Netanyahu, Israel Settlements, Benyamin-Netanyahu, World News

Israel and America are hardly about to part ways, but the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has now pitted the interests of his right wing political coalition against US national interests.

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Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

The internet today -- despite the occasional bouts of disinformation and invented scandal -- is far more of an effective and immediate marketplace of information than the world for which Bernard Kouchner seems to pine.

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Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward Luce, Valerie Jarrett, Policymaking, ABC's the Note, Chicago, Mike Allen, US Foreign Policy, Denis McDonough, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Financial TImes, James Steinberg, David Axelrod, Tom Daschle, Politico, Tom Donilon, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Gregory Craig, Brent Scowcroft, Fareed Zakaria, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Arianna Huffington, Politics News

Serious critiques of the internal game around Obama have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing, and people need to consider why.

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Who Is Hot And Who Was Blocked (Or Forgotten) At First White House State Dinner

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House released the list of those attending the State Dinner honoring India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But it's not just India's night -- there are a lot of folks that could push other agendas in Obama Land.

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The "Goldilocks Principle" and Afghan War Options

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, George Ball, George Kahin, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan Occupation, President Barack Obama, Juan Cole, Lindsey Graham, The Nation, Peter Baker, Afghanistan War, William Polk, American War in Afghanistan, Nato, American Military Forces, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Goldilocks Principle, William Westmoreland, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, New York Times, General Stanley McChrystal, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Helene Cooper, Robert Dryfuss, Vietnamization, Politics News

General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.

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Brzezinski Calls Anti-Corruption Crusade In Afghanistan Hypocritical

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Obama Insurgency, Zbigniew Brzezinski Karzai, Zbigniew Brzezinski Afghanistan, Zbigniew Brzezinski Corruption, Afghan Surge, Larry Korb, National Approach, National Army, Politics News

One of the most respected foreign policy voices in Democratic circles expressed "serious reservations" with components of a U.S. troop escalation in A...

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Afghanistan: A History of Failed Press Coverage

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Le Nouvel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, ABC Nightline, Robert Gates, Columbia Jounalism Review, Janet Wilson, New York Post, American Press Coverage of Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion in 1979, Roger Fisher, Samira Goetschel, Media News

For almost 30 years, American press coverage of Afghanistan has been simplistic, misleading, unexamining, accepting and echoing government propaganda, and just plain wrong. There

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Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Liberty, Uss-Liberty, Idf, Iran, Israel, Israel Iran, Iran Israel, Politics News

Zbigniew Brzezinski made news recently by implying that the US should be prepared to militarily confront any Israeli planes headed for a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

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Before Jenna: Political Children Working In Media (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

The "Today Show" announced this week that they've hired Jenna Bush (aka Jenna Hager) to file stories for them about once a month. "It wasn't something...

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Invisible History, Afghanistan's Untold Story Is no Conspiracy Theory!

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Magical Thinking Perpetrated by the Media, Afghan Expert Selig Harrison, Zbigniew Brzezinski, CBS News?, Gunga-Dan Rather, Kenneth J. Cooper?S Boston Globe Review, Media News

It is no conspiracy theory that the U.S. supported the worst possible Islamic terrorists and used them to lure and then keep the Russians in Afghanistan.

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Jimmy Carter, James Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft on Israel-Palestine Conflict

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James A. Baker III, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Landrum Bolling, Brent Scowcroft, Jimmy Carter, Palestine, Israel, Settlements, Hamas, Middle East Peace, Politics News

Israel, an ally of the United States, is testing Obama's strength and resolve as much as a number of American foes.

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Clinton Consulted With Republicans, Neocons On Big Foreign Policy Speech

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...

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US Policies Empower Afghan Taliban: Experts

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huffington Post caught up with Afghanistan experts Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald and discussed recent developments in Afghanistan. Here's what they had to say.

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The "Just Say NO-Bama Campaign" Part 2: Diplomacy is Neither Timid Nor an Apology

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

Iranians have not asked for U.S. or other Western support other than a desire that our media continue to report their story.

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Obama's Recommended Bedtime Reading: Iranian-Israeli History

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Iran, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Francis Fukuyama, Barack Obama, Trita Parsi, Treacherous Alliance, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barack Obama Iran, Obama Israel Iran, Israel Iran, Obama Israel, Advocacy, World News

Last night, after he had made a grocery-store run, helped put his two kids to bed, and answered reporters' phone calls about Washington's decision to ...

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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