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What Obama Should Say Tonight About Libya What Obama Should Say Tonight About Libya

Obama should tell Americans: "I have come before you tonight to admit that I have erred in intervening in Libya."

Mar 28, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss

Obama Doesn’t Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine Obama Doesn’t Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine

The uprisings in the Arab world are too complex to be reduced to a one-size-fits-all doctrine.

Mar 24, 2011 / Ari Berman

Haiti Abstains Haiti Abstains

No matter who is declared the winner, the country's March 20 elections represent a defeat for Haitian democracy.

Mar 22, 2011 / Dan Coughlin

Obama Holds Up Latin America as a Model for the Middle East—If Only Obama Holds Up Latin America as a Model for the Middle East—If Only

Obama, in Chile, celebrates Latin American democracy while telling Chileans to not cling to the past.

Mar 22, 2011 / Greg Grandin

The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism

Letter From Europe.

Mar 22, 2011 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Battle of Belgium Battle of Belgium

It is a battle royal, and it foreshadows many more like it in the struggle for the economic mastery of Europe.

Mar 21, 2011 / Daniel Singer

NPR Predicts Warm Welcome for Obama in Brazil, Facts to Follow NPR Predicts Warm Welcome for Obama in Brazil, Facts to Follow

NPR's Pravda-like headline tells the story before it actually happened.

Mar 19, 2011 / Greg Grandin

No Nukes Is Good Nukes

No Nukes Is Good Nukes No Nukes Is Good Nukes

Sorry, President Obama, but there is a dimension of fear properly associated with the word nuclear that is not matched by any oil spill.

Mar 16, 2011 / Robert Scheer

Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand

Is Earth becoming Easter Island?

Mar 15, 2011 / Leslie Savan

Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger

Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger

Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nucl...

Mar 15, 2011 / Christian Parenti

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