Articles by Foreign Policy
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LESSONS OF THE GAZA FREEDOM MARCH
Walden Bello – Foreign Policy in Focus,
9 Jan 2010
At 8 a.m., on Wednesday, December 30, I took my seat on a bus in downtown Cairo that was about to head for Gaza.The evening before, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, the central organization in the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), had asked me to be titular head of a 100-person delegation that represented the […]
→ read full articleA LESSON ON NONVIOLENCE FOR THE PRESIDENT
Eric Stoner – Foreign Policy in Focus,
19 Dec 2009
In Oslo last week, President Barack Obama ironically used his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize to deliver a lengthy defense of the "just war" theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s most pressing problems. After quoting Martin Luther King Jr. and giving his respects to Gandhi — […]
→ read full articleTHE CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL CHALLENGE
Frida Berrigan – Foreign Policy in Focus,
18 Nov 2009
Massive ordnance penetrator. Sounds powerful, right? This bomb is also known by its initials: MOP.About a month ago, Congress gave $68 million to the Boeing Corporation to accelerate the purchase and development of 10-12 "massive ordnance penetrators." The Pentagon says that the MOP bombs are the "weapon of choice" for an "urgent operational need." While […]
→ read full articleTHE STRUGGLE AGAINST FREE TRADE CONTINUES
Gabriela Campos – Foreign Policy in Focus,
4 Nov 2009
On October 15th, La Mesa Nacional Frente a La Minería Metálica en El Salvador, also known as El Salvador’s National Roundtable on Mining, won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award awarded by the Institute for Policy Studies for their fight against mining in El Salvador.As the international community’s attention is fixed on the coup and crisis […]
→ read full articleSTRATEGIC FOCUS: U.S. MILITARY FOOTPRINT
Foreign Policy in Focus,
1 Jul 2009
The United States maintains more than 700 bases around the world and is pushing to set up even more. What are these bases doing, how is the Pentagon rethinking their functions, and how can we reduce this military footprint? In The Other Guantanamo, David Vine looks at how the U.S. base on Diego Garcia quietly […]
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