Many have questioned why the European Union failed to provide an independent view to that of the United States on Middle East policy during the last decade. It is not a simple question to answer. Partly, the EU failed to assert its voice because, at the beginning of the decade, it was scrambling to contain [...]

Over one hundred academics and other specialists have signed this just-released statement:Dear President Obama:“As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt. As citizens, we [...]

In Siff’s top-floor studio, running the entire length of the house, the artist is now at work on her next solo show, “Elements of Peace,” an exhibition that has been slated for the Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University from September through December 2012. The cornerstone of that exhibition will be “Fallen Heroes/Afghanistan,” [...]

Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, two decades after helping Israel and its enemies meet in Madrid, says the basic issues preventing peace remain the same. The revelations by Al Jazeera concerning the limping peace process between Israel and the Palestinians apparently did not knock James A. Baker, III, off his chair at the [...]

China is pushing ahead of the U.S. and Europe in developing clean- and low-carbon energy as a way to spur the nation’s economy, the diplomat leading United Nations Climate talks said. “China is going to leave all of us in the dust,” Christiana Figueres, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at [...]

Just in case you missed it, there was good news and bad news in President Obama’s State of the Union speech when it came to the war in Afghanistan: The good news is that he reaffirmed his commitment to begin the withdrawal of US troops in July. The bad news is that he made claims [...]

President Obama’s state of the union was quickly followed by a second one in Afghanistan. President Karzai finally convened the newly-elected parliament with a Kennedyesque “Ask not what Afghanistan can do for you, ask what you can do for Afghanistan.” He had been resisting American pressure to open parliament for months, preferring to rule by [...]

The Belo Monte dam, which will be the third-largest such project in the world, has been strongly opposed by environmental campaigners and indigenous people who face being displaced. Last year James Cameron, the film director, compared the plans to the plot of his box office hit Avatar, in which the Na’vi race fight to protect [...]

Secret US embassy cables sent from Cairo in the past two years reveal that the Obama administration wanted to maintain a close political and military relationship with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, who is now facing a popular uprising. A frank briefing note in May 2009 ahead of Mubarak’s trip to Washington, leaked by WikiLeaks, [...]

There are two critical ways that you can help build resistance here in the United States. Most important, put your body on the line for peace and join us on March 19!   If you can’t do that, or even if you can, please support this effort with your donation. To make a contribution go [...]