Last week, President Bush's theorists introduced a revolutionary new principle in the field of logic: the Causal Trifle. Responding to criticism that the Israeli government's annexation of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem threatens to derail negotiations, the Bush administration countered with the logic that seemed to puzzle an exhausted White House press corps.
by Matthew Chavez Daily Lobo columnist On Nov. 8, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that, if ratified in the Senate, will remove trade and investment obstacles between the U.S. and Peru. The bill's supporters laud it as a new labor - and environment - friendly free-trade model that enjoys bipartisan support.
U.S.-Turkish relations rattled this month as two crises converged. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs passed a nonbinding resolution labeling the Ottoman Empire's post-World War I killing of 1.5 million Armenians "genocide," infuriating Turkish officials who deny it occurred.
Mohammad Salman Hamdani, a Pakistani-born New York City police cadet and medical student, died 6 years ago today in the cascading towers that would also claim the lives of thousands of other victims and provoke an escalating series of barbarous U.S. invasions. I spoke with Talat Hamdani, Mohammad Salman Hamdani's mother and a member of September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, about the attacks and the U.S. government's responses.
In the late 1990s, Iran specialist Shahram Chubin predicted that the "all-purpose bogey" the Iranian government found in U.S. foreign policy was a device whose effectiveness at constraining domestic dissent was rapidly waning.
In fall of 2006, the Bush administration announced plans to place an antimissile system in Central Europe for the stated purpose of addressing Middle East ballistic missile threats. Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully opposed the perceived intrusion into Moscow's domain, arguing that the "system is targeted against something that does not exist" and could trigger a new arms race that would threaten Eurasian stability.
Five months have passed since President Bush announced the New Way Forward in Iraq, a misnomer perversely contrary to Iraqi and United States public opinion.
by Matthew Chavez Daily Lobo columnist Last week marked the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, a watershed event that revolutionized Israeli power in the Middle East and created the longest-running military occupation in modern history. The Six-Day War also transformed U.
by Matthew Chavez Daily Lobo columnist The U.S. trade deficit - the amount by which America's imports exceed its exports - has quadrupled since the Bush administration took office in 2001. In 2006, the trade deficit reached a record $818 billion. There is little consensus among economists about the implications of such a large imbalance.
by Matthew Chavez Daily Lobo columnist The White House and its dwindling allies continue the struggle to pull redemption from the charred rubble of Iraq. Nothing unsettles the Bush administration more than a legacy of trillions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of grisly deaths with no strategic gain to show for it.
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