Stories by Jim Lobe
Jim Lobe is the Washington bureau chief for Inter Press Service.
A major study produced for the U.S. Air Force by a top defense think tank concludes attacking Iran would be a disaster for the U.S.
Posted on Aug 11, 2008
Forswearing military action against Tehran would ease the upwards pressure on world oil prices.
Posted on Jul 7, 2008
A muscular group of religious, military and former government officials has created an anti-torture declaration. The names may surprise you.
Posted on Jun 27, 2008
In news that should surprise no one, a bipartisan report finds the Bush administration exaggerated threats of WMDs as well as Saddam/al Queda links.
Posted on Jun 10, 2008
Engagement -- known as "appeasement" in the neo-conservative lexicon -- is bursting out all over the Middle East.
Posted on May 26, 2008
"The argument that Iraq should use its oil revenues to pay the U.S. sounds like the ultimate proof that we invaded Iraq for mercenary reasons."
Posted on May 8, 2008
Is there a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the Bush administration?
Posted on Apr 28, 2008
A new assessment finds that the decrease in violence over the past six months has not led to political reconciliation.
Posted on Apr 16, 2008
The official reasons haven't held up.
Posted on Mar 19, 2008
Bush is still hoping that 2008 will keep him from being judged as one of the very worst presidents in history.
Posted on Jan 4, 2008
'Abu Risha's murder demonstrates the strategic naivete of Bush's arguments'
Posted on Sep 17, 2007
Despite Condi Rice's talk of a "Sunni Crescent," a large poll conducted across the Middle East shows that 80 percent of Arabs consider Israel and the U.S. the two biggest external threats to their security. Six percent cited Iran.
Posted on Feb 13, 2007
North Korea's claim that it conducted a nuclear test has neoconservatives making public calls for the most radical policies available to the U.S. establishment.
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
Two big crises -- Iraq and Lebanon -- show signs of becoming one really, really big emergency.
Posted on Aug 15, 2006
It looks like the Project for the New American Century, the neocon group that promoted the invasion of Iraq, is closing down.
Posted on Jun 16, 2006
The Israel Lobby seems to be the only major organised force actively pushing the confrontation with Iran toward crisis.
Posted on Apr 14, 2006
News that the White House is planning to attack Iran could be the real deal, or it could be an elaborate bluff.
Posted on Apr 12, 2006
Whether Thursday's bombings in London will erode public support for Bush remains to be seen. But growing pessimism about the Iraq war makes him more vulnerable than ever.
Posted on Jul 11, 2005
John Bolton is a man best known for sabotaging international treaties and alienating entire nations. That's why he's been picked to be our ambassador to the United Nations.
Posted on Mar 8, 2005
The departure of undersecretary of defense – and hardliner – Doug Feith suggests that the administration is shedding its more radical edges. Is neocon influence waning?
Posted on Feb 1, 2005
Add to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein another bearded, remote-dwelling evildoer President Bush intends to rout from his habitat: Santa Claus.
Posted on Dec 24, 2004
The architects of Bush's foreign policy have a new 'checklist' of tasks for the Bush second term. It includes taking on not only the 'axis of evil,' but also 'Old Europe' and China.
Posted on Nov 11, 2004
A new survey reveals that Bush supporters choose to keep faith in their leader than face reality.
Posted on Oct 21, 2004
An open letter signed by leading U.S. national security specialists describes the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq as the gravest foreign policy error since the Vietnam War.
Posted on Oct 14, 2004
A new survey shows that a majority of Americans are firmly opposed to the core elements of the Bush administration's foreign policy, be it unilateralism or preemptive warfare.
Posted on Sep 30, 2004
Contrary to all evidence, President Bush insists that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda simply because he says so, over and over again.
Posted on Jun 21, 2004
The neoconservative hawks' fall from grace comes too late, with the nation already mired in a war that it cannot win or end.
Posted on May 3, 2004
Rightwing hawks view the Spaniards' decision to vote out Jose Maria Aznar as equivalent to appeasing Hitler.
Posted on Mar 23, 2004
Two key players in the White House's campaign to invade Iraq expose the real reasons for the war.
Posted on Feb 23, 2004
A disturbing case forces the U.S. to consider granting political asylum to battered women.
Posted on Feb 19, 2004
If the Justice Department wants to know who leaked Valerie Plame's identity, all they have to do is talk to a longtime Republican operative named Clifford May.
Posted on Feb 17, 2004
The president has picked a notorious GOP operative with close ties to the pro-war lobby to co-chair the WMD commission.
Posted on Feb 8, 2004
Moderate Republicans have started a secret campaign to take the vice president off the Republican ticket in 2004.
Posted on Jan 28, 2004
A report authored by a leading think-tank represents the most serious blow thus far to the administration's case for war.
Posted on Jan 9, 2004
In 2003, network news was too busy focusing on Iraq to notice the millions of people who died in crises around the world.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004
Iraq experts differ on whether Hussein's capture will embolden the Shiites, dampen the insurgency, or have little effect at all.
Posted on Dec 14, 2003
The administration's move to blacklist the very same countries it is asking to forgive Iraq's debt is not a sign of arrogance but hopelessly muddled decision-making.
Posted on Dec 12, 2003
Supporters of the invasion returning from Iraq report a 'disconnect' between what the government tells us and the truth on the ground.
Posted on Dec 4, 2003
A memo leaked to the Weekly Standard reveals the desperation of administration hawks who have once again sacrificed national security to get back at their critics.
Posted on Nov 20, 2003
While maintaining a brave face on the accelerating stream of bad news coming out of Baghdad, the Bush administration appears increasingly at a loss, not to say panicked, about what to do.
Posted on Nov 13, 2003
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