North Korea
Belarus Betrayal
Wikileaks and the Cyberwars to Come
Bombshell
When faced with a particularly scary, nettlesome problem, there’s a natural tendency in Washington to accentuate the positive and play for time even when the clock has pretty much run out. This is certainly so with Iran’s nuclear program. READ MORE >>
Stephen Solarz (1940–2010)
Kimpossible
A Defense of Wikileaks
Why Wikileaks Is Bad for Progressive Foreign Policy
Will the latest Wikileaks dump really matter that much? It’s true, as both Laura Rozen and Kevin Drum have observed, that many of the secret messages don’t seem to reveal big secrets. As Rozen wrote yesterday: READ MORE >>
What Should We Do About North Korea?
What shall we make of North Korea's attack on the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong? Well, by the everyday standards of International relations, a 90-minute barrage of over 200 artillery shells that killed at least two South Koreans and wreaked havoc on a civilian town would justifiably be described as what it so obviously is: a crisis and an act of war. READ MORE >>
North Korea's Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Plant Is Not Just About Pyongyang. It Is Also About Iran. Does Obama Know ... Or Care?
The last time I looked the president was still trying to entice (or maybe the word I should say “entrance”) the Iranians into...Well, what? As with the North Koreans, Obama still has faith that Tehran -with all the evidence against this proposition notwithstanding- is a rational actor in its drive for nuclear weapons. In fact, given the assumption that atomic war is probably something that Iran would very much like to wage, Dr. A’jad and the ayatollahs are playing the game just right. They have gotten time and more time...and time is not really money. It is power. READ MORE >>
Abused by Hope
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid By Peter Gill (Oxford University Press, 280 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
