US Foreign Policy

What Haiti Is Owed

The Editors : Haiti

For much of Haiti's existence, foreign powers have used debt not just to control but to plunder it.

The Sham Elections in Honduras

Laura Carlsen : Honduras

The Honduran elections were far from free, fair or peaceful, and the country now faces a deeper political crisis than before voters went to the polls.

Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail

Dilip Hiro : Iran

Why Russia and China will sink Washington's Iran policy.

Nobel Peace Sparks War

Patricia J. Williams : Media Analysis

It's peculiar, the vocabulary that makes a liability out of the Nobel Prize.

Obama's Nobel

: Barack Obama

Did the president deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize? No, of course not. But he still has a chance to earn it.

Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons

Robert Scheer : China

This week the Chinese Communists celebrate their sixtieth year in power, an event that the make-war-not-peace crowd might benefit from contemplating.

What Have We Done to Democracy?

Arundhati Roy : Middle East

What's next in a world where democracy has been so hollowed out, so emptied of meaning?

Don't Turn the Page on History

Tom Engelhardt

Can the United States turn its back on its own "little house of horrors"?

'Let Me Be Clear'

Alexander Cockburn : Africa

Obama's speech in Ghana neglected to mention structural barriers to African prosperity.

How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases

Chalmers Johnson : US Military

As Congress and Obama wrangle over the cost of much-needed domestic expenditures, no one suggests that closing some of these unpopular, expensive imperial enclaves might be a good way to save some money.

Nation's Chris Hayes: The Politics of Aid

Al Jazeera

How will Obama interpret USAID's stated mission to 'further America's foreign policy interests' while 'improving the lives of citizens'?

Off Dead Center

Greg Grandin : History

William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy.

Pakistan's Missing Peace

Graham Usher : Pakistan

There's a hole in the heart of our Af-Pak policy. It's called peace between Pakistan and India. And no amount of aid will fill it.

Obama's Call to Action

: U.S. Economy

Let's make sure Obama's investment in America's future isn't squandered in the mountains of Afghanistan.

The Politics of Hunger

GRIT TV

Oil prices have come down steadily but the global food crisis continues to worsen. What's driving the crisis at home and abroad?

Questions for Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of State takes questions today from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Nation has some questions of its own.