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Grand Flattery: The Yale Grand Strategy Seminar (Foreign Policy, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

Thomas Meaney and Stephen Wertheim
The Obama Contradiction (Foreign Policy, Government, US Wars and Military Action)

Weakling at home, imperial president abroad.

Tom Engelhardt
A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC (Regions and Countries, World)

How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

Pepe Escobar
Anthony Shadid
The Road to Marjayoun: On Anthony Shadid (Autobiography and Memoir, Journalists and Journalism, Books and the Arts, World)

Anthony Shadid was an exceedingly rare reporter in the thinning ranks of American journalism.
 

Scott Sherman
Washington’s Iran Policy and Global Disaster (Foreign Policy, US Politics)

What history should teach us about blockading Iran.

Juan Cole
Soldier in Afghanistan
The Age of American Shadow Power (America as Empire, Foreign Policy, Covert Ops)

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

Juan Cole
A New Energy Third World in North America? (US Politics, Corporations, Environment)

How the big energy companies plan to turn the United States into a third world petro-state.

Michael T. Klare
A New Age of Enemies (Government, War and Peace)

The unstoppable legacy of the war on terror.

Karen Greenberg
If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy's Human Mic... (Occupy Wall Street, History)

The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
 

Jonathan Schell
War as the President's Private Preserve (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, War and Peace)

Obama breaks new ground when it comes to war with Iran.

Tom Engelhardt