Superpower

20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mujahedeen, Berlin Wall, Al-Qaeda, United States in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Superpower, Ussr, Cold War, Moscow, Taliban, War on Terror, Soviet Union, World News
Loretta Napoleoni

Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.

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In the Name of Hope: Perpetual War and the Nobel Peace Prize

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1984, War on Terror, Hope, Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Geir Lundestad, Peace Prize Response, Superpower, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Politics News
Hamdan Azhar

If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?

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Post-Election Iran: What America Must Do Now

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.15.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of the Press, Dialogue, Palestine, Women's Rights, Hostages, Martyrdom, President Obama, Reformist, Obama, Iran, Iran-Contra, Revolution, Freedom, Israel, Khomeini, Ayatollah, Islamist, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian, Afghanistan, Cultural Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Khatami, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Superpower, Iranian-Presidential-Election, Iraq, Muslim, Non-Muslim, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran News, Iran Election, Iran Elections, Iran Election News, Election Iran, Shirin Sadeghi Post-Election Iran, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The Iranian Republic requires American antagonism to uphold its regional influence and its stranglehold on the Iranian people - the United States should deprive it of this gift.

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Is President Obama Serious About a New Relationship with the Americas?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Obama NAFTA, Empire, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Obama Summit of the Americas, Summit of the Americas, Latin America Policy, Superpower, President Obama, Evo Morales, Nestor Kirchner, Cuban Doctors, Daniel Ortega, Mexico Drug Wars, Cuba, World News
Sarah van Gelder

Will Obama rebuild our relationship with the south on a foundation of respect for democracy? Or will it be more of the same superpower policies cloaked in collaborative and intelligent rhetoric?

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Six Years into the Iraq War: Can We Still Be a Superpower?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Iraq War, Empire, Economic Stimulus Package, Military, Stimulus Package, Superpower, Sixth Anniversary of Iraq War, Climate Change, Media, Iraq Rejects U.S. Military Bases, YES! Magazine, Weapons, Military Budget, Iraq, World News
Sarah van Gelder

But if we are clear, now, about the failure of the neoconservative agenda of global dominance, the question remains: How should the U.S. relate to the rest of the world?

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Joshua Cooper Ramo: Surprise! Global Financial Crisis Could Turn China Into A Superpower

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Cabinet, China Tibet Crackdown, China Products, World Economy, Henry Kissinger, Time Magazine, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, President Obama, 9/11, Banking Crisis, University of Michigan, Bill Browder, Richard Nisbett, Diane Tucker, Hermitage Fund, China Economy, China Human Rights, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Global Financial Crisis, China, The Atlantic, Age of the Unthinkable, Chinese Financial Crisis, American Superpower, Superpower, Investment Banks, Leveraged Buyout, Subprime Mortgage Market, Stock Market, Free Market, New York/New York, Books, World News
Diane Tucker

The Chinese banking system has been through so much stress during the last few decades, they are in a much better position than the U.S. to deal with the global financial crisis, says Joshua Cooper Ramo.

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For Obama: A Five-Point Foreign Policy Agenda

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

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Sarah van Gelder

We no longer can afford to be the world's biggest military spender, and although the world looks to us for leadership, it has rejected domination.

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When Not Drooling Wins and the Environment Loses

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Politics, Election, Wormhole, Anwr, Dependency, Drill Baby Drill, Offshore Drilling, Alaskan Wildlife Refuge, Exxon, Vice Presidential Debate, Superpower, Russia, Oil, String Theory, Fossil Fuel, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

String Theory holds that the universe actually is comprised of multiple dimensions, as many as 26. Palin and her supporters occupy something beyond our familiar three, plus time.

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John McCain Antics -- Thursday 25 September, 2008

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose John McCain is engaged in a hypocritical effort to preempt the narrative of this Presidential contest. Today I shall try to carry ...

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The Loss of Democracy: The Deeper Meaning of McClellan's Revelations of Imperial Deceit & Media Submissiveness

Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Al Gore, Democracy, Scott Mcclellan, Halliburton, Inc., George W. Bush, Nbc, Military Commissions Act, Democrats, Election, Barack Obama, Amnesty International, Habeas Corpus, Msnbc, Cnn, White House Press Secretary. Bush Administration, Bechtel, Katie Couric, Sheldon Wolin, Iraq War, Republican Party, Superpower, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

The result of the White House spin, and the complicity of the press corp. in it, has been the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

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