Paul Wolfowitz

Iraq, Free Trade and America's Efforts to Remake the World

David Paul | Posted 12.18.2011 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Iraq War, Wmd, Arab Spring, Eqypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Nixon, Russia, Donald Rumsfeld, Libya, Free Trade, Neoconservatives, Democracy, China, Dick Cheney, World News

If our experiment in spreading democratic freedom across the Muslim world seems like it may have rough moments, we need only look back at our now-decades old experiment in spreading economic freedom, known as free trade.

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Rogue's Gallery: CNN's Ideologically Rigid, Scandal-Tainted, Ethics-Investigation-Haunted GOP Debate 'Panel'

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.27.2012 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, David Addington, Paul Wolfowitz, Fred Kagan, Chris Hayes, Ed Meese, Politics News

David Addington. Paul Wolfowitz. Ed Meese. It's a Rogue's Gallery of government officials gone wild, a motley crew of the short-sighted, the benighted, and the nearly-indicted. Or, as CNN calls them, "experts."

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Weirdest Bucket List Ever?

John Blumenthal | Posted 01.17.2012 | Fifty

Read More: Michelin, Dalai Lama, Paul Wolfowitz, Yankees, Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, American History Textbook, Bean Bag Chair, Lingerie Shopping, Shakespeare, Keith Olbermann, Cable Guy, Civil War, Floaties, Queen of England, Sarah Palin, Fifty News

After much prodding from my mortician, I've finally decided to put together my bucket list. I probably should have written it years ago since I'm beyond middle age now and a little decrepit, but better late than never.

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Why Amnesty International is a Shadow of its Old Self

Anthony Amore | Posted 12.12.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Alex Neve, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Amnesty International, Condi Rice, Canada, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Alex Neve, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, is calling for the Canadian government to arrest former President George W. Bush whe...

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The Amish Antidote

Mike Bonifer | Posted 11.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Forgiveness, Fear, Revenge, Nickel Mines PA, 10th-Anniversary-of-911, Nfl, Amish, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Decade After 9/11 - Viewpoints, September 11 Anniversary, Politics News

The battles we must fight are not with our enemies but with ourselves. No matter how much we hurt, or how much harm has come to our community, we can never find healing in bringing more hurt into the world.

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Stiglitz: IMF Chief Must 'Continue Along The Reform Path'

Project Syndicate | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Posted 08.03.2011 | Business

Read More: Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, East Asia Crisis, Debt Crisis, Managing Director, Greece, International Monetary Fund, G8, World Bank, Ireland, Imf, Us Treasury, Portugal, Business News

NEW YORK – Sooner than expected, the International Monetary Fund will have a new managing director. For more than a decade, I have criticized the Fu...

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From 'Liberation' to Occupation: 10 Reasons Iraq Was No Cakewalk

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Troops, Military, Army, Private Contractors, Paul Wolfowitz, Bradley Manning, Afghanistan, War, Code Pink, Codepink, Obama Administration, Obama, Iraq, Politics News

March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. At the onset, Ken Adelman predicted that "liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." Eight years on, it's time to look back at that "cakewalk."

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WATCH: Former Bush Official Calls Obama Response To Libya 'Too Slow'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush administration official known as one of the key architects of the Iraq war, has been sharply criticizing t...

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Wolfowitz and Neoconservative Interventionalism Are Wrong on Libya

Alex Becker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, NeoCon Foreign Policy, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya Protests, Politics News

The "an enemy of my enemy is my friend" approach risks too much in the long run for the people of Libya until the long-term intents and identities of those involved can be made clear.

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Top 7 Underemployed Former Bush Officials

Paul Tullis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Slidepollajax, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Office of Special Plans, Paul Bremer, David Addington, Dirk Kempthorne, Alberto Gonzales, Mms, Politics News

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Then They Came for Me

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Neimoller, Nazis, Robert Gates, War on Terror, Liz Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Neocons, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News

A fear- and vengeance-driven post-9/11 mentality could yet become the done deal it is in Liz Cheney's mind.

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What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Why should we, here in America, care about a country with some of the worst luck in recent history? Because if we don't stand united against the "lesser evil" than the "straight-up evil" is coming for us.

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Coming Attraction: More War

Stanley Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Neocons, Iran, John Bolton, President Barack Obama, Politics News

"It is time to turn the page," Obama said as he announced the "end" of combat operations in Iraq. Meanwhile, those who brought us that unnecessary war remain committed to such policies and, if returned to power, are likely to carry them out.

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Lies and the War That Has Not Ended

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, Wmd, Saddam Hussein, Bill Kristol, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Those who brought this disaster down on us must be called to account for the fabrications, the embarrassment to our honor, and the waste of so many lives and resources. Until then, the conclusion to this sad chapter in Iraq will not have been written.

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Mission Not Accomplished: The True Cost of the Iraq War

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, President Obama, Paul Wolfowitz, David Brooks, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Tax Cuts, Troop Drawdown, Politics News

Iraq has served to divide the country like no other event in recent American history. It has driven a sharp political wedge straight down both Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street.

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An Unsanitized Look at the Origins of the Iraq War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, President George W. Bush, Douglas Feith, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Iraq Occupation, Pnac, Dick Cheney, Msnbc, Pope John Paul, Cnn, Iraq WMD, Richard Armitage, Saddam Hussein, Peter Rodman, Iraq War, Fox News, Baghdad, Richard Perle, William Schneider, Dov Zakheim, Zalmay Khalilzad, Iraq Liberation Act, Elliot Abrams, Project for a New American Century, Neo-Conservatives, Neo-Cons, Paula Dobriansky, Karen Kwiatkowski, Politics News

The debacle in Iraq is not merely a result of errors in planning or poor decision-making. Soldiers are still risking their lives every day in Iraq, "combat" or no "combat," and many more will die for this policy our neo-con leaders handed down to us.

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My Experience With the ADL

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Adl, Palestinians, Israelis, Jewish, Anti-Defamation League, Palestine, Paul Wolfowitz, Abe Foxman, Israel Palestine, Hamas, Israel, World News

if the ADL is committed only to stopping the defamation of the Jewish people while participating in the defamation of the Muslim community, then it has clearly gone against its own goals and vision.

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War Propaganda: Soldiers Become Pawns For The Powerful

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, US Soldiers, Reinhold Niebuhr, Time Magazine, Liberals, President Barack Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Media, Pentagon Budget, Larry King LIve, Pentagon Propaganda, Imperial Presidency, Barry McCaffrey, Afghanistan War, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Laura Bush, American Soldiers, Iraq WMD, David Kilcullen, US Marines, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Katie Couric, Neoconservatives, Obama West Point Speech, Extraordinary Rendition, Coin, Counterinsurgency, Politics News

As a Patriotic American and a former Marine, I urge all of us to get realistic about this war. At the rate of 8 billion dollars a month, do Americans want to be in Afghanistan for the next 15 years?

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Brookings Loses Bid on Orszag but Takes Kagan From Carnegie

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Think Tank All Stars, Council on Foreign Relations, Connie Bruck, Peter Orszag, Robert Kagan, New Yorker, Paul Wolfowitz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Elliott Abrams, Francis Fukuyama, Haim Saban, Martin Indyk, Brookings, David Frum, Ken Pollack, LeBron James, Politics News

Word has just reached us that Robert Kagan -- one of the top tier serious intellectuals among neoconservatives, and currently Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- is moving his franchise over to Brookings.

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Christopher Hitchens: A Narcissistic Manchild

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Hugo Chavez, Paul Wolfowitz, Fidel Castro, Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, George W. Bush, 9/11, Hitch-22, Waterboarding, Edward Said, God Is Not Great, Dick Cheney, Torture, Media News

Hitchens views the world bichromatically, in black and white. Hitchens thrives on certainty. But there have been notable instances when he has demonstrated wishy-washiness.

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Shadow Elite: Neocons, The Holocaust & Emergency Powers

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Janine Wedel, Holocaust, War on Terror, Terrorism, Shadow Elite, Neoconservatives, Richard Perle, Iraq, Arianna's Book Club, Politics News

Democracy must be counted as one of the casualties of this new century's wars, and more broadly, of an era where an elite few have become masters at pressing their own self-interested agendas with impunity.

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Terrorism: Why They Want to Kill Us

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

There can sometimes be a case for military intervention or use of drones. But the high costs of these tactics must be recognized and weighed. To reduce terrorism, Washington should do less, not more, abroad.

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Senator Bayh's Long Bye Bye

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, G.a.O., Paul Wolfowitz, President George W. Bush, Senator Bayh, World Bank, Politics News

Sill Senator Bayh re-introduce his Bayh Amendment or just disappear into the night with that whole sorry episode forever as an albatross around his proverbial neck?

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Shadow Elite: March to War -- The Neocon Playbook, Straight from the Soviet Bloc

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Iraq War Anniversary, Iraq War, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Communism, Janine Wedel, Huffpost Books, Eastern Europe, Shadow Elite, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Richard Perle, Cold War, World News

Despite a new administration in Washington, not to mention the damage done to their credibility since the Iraq invasion, the Neocon core lives on, because networks like it are self-propelling and enduring.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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