Perpetual War for a Lasting Peace
January 1, 2005
Thomas P. M. Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004), 320 pages, hardcover $26.95. � The geopolitics of… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Imperialism
Notes from the Editors, December 2004
December 1, 2004
New Political Science, a journal associated with the Caucus for a New Political Science, has devoted its entire September 2004 number to “The Politics of Empire, Terror and Hegemony.” The… READ MORE
The New Israel
December 1, 2004
This essay has been adapted from chapter 8 of Michel Warschawski’s Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society (Monthly Review Press, 2004), which presents an important dissident Israeli… READ MORE
Havoc, Inc.: Running Amok with Uncle Sam
December 1, 2004
Doug Dowd lives in San Francisco and Bologna. He is the author of Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History (London: Pluto Press, 2004) and The Broken Promises of America:… READ MORE
U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
November 1, 2004
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder (Zed Books, 2004) and The Liberal Virus:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2004
October 1, 2004
For more than a decade now the major corporate media and the U.S. government have been celebrating the growing “democratization” of Latin America. Rather than reflecting a genuine concern with… READ MORE
The American Empire: Pax Americana or Pox Americana?
September 1, 2004
On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C., in which he declared that the peace that the United States sought… READ MORE
Haiti Matters!
September 1, 2004
Charles McCollester is the director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor Relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor in the department of Industrial and… READ MORE
Is Iraq Another ‘Vietnam’?
June 1, 2004
An indication of just how bad things have become for the U.S. invaders and occupiers of Iraq is that comparisons with the Vietnam War are now commonplace in the U.S…. READ MORE
Soldiers for Hire
June 1, 2004
Huck Gutman teaches English at the University of Vermont and is senior staff aide to Representative Bernie Sanders. He is political columnist for The Statesmanof Kolkata, India, and also contributes… READ MORE