William Pfaff

The Americans who voted for Barack Obama as president were promised change they could count on, but it rather looks as if they may actually be asked to make do with a mildly refurbished Clinton administration, with many of the same officials and nearly all of the same policies.

Spoils of Globalization go to Corporations, Countries, not Working Poor.

The Enron verdicts are one more blow to a new American model of capitalism already heavily criticized for its gross abuse of common-sense moral values.

The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France's student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.

The President has an enormous political gulf to bridge. The trouble is, he doesn't even know it's there

A historian in the future, or a moralist, is likely to deem the Bush administration's enthusiasm for torture the most striking aspect of its war against terrorism.

Nuclear weapons and experiments have been the subject of most recent news from Korea on security issues. But the promise (or threat) of U.S. troop withdrawals has probably made the bigger impact on the South Koreans.

Terrorism and the measures adopted against it acquire reciprocal momentum that is all but impossible to stop once a certain threshold has been crossed.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia is in grave difficulty because he has refused to acknowledge the real nature of the challenge to his government in Chechnya

The would-be Democrat President will have to show great political guile over Iraq if he is to avoid the fate of Johnson and Nixon

The deep confusion that has fallen over the supposed transfer of power in Iraq next month suggests that the best opportunity the United States will ever have to make a constructive exit from that country may be wasted.

The jobless recovery in the American economy, weakly echoed in Europe, reinforces complaints in all the Western industrial countries that employers and stockholders enrich themselves while workers' wages fall or remain static.

Programını milli egemenlik, Amerikan işgaline son, ülke kurallarına göre yenilenme esasları üzerine oturtmayan hiçbir lider, Irak'ı yönetemez. ABD bunu görmüyor... Yönetimin Irak politikası başarısız olursa, 2004'te tehlikeye girecek olan yalnızca Bush'un koltuğu olmayacak.

Contrary to what many are saying, Saddam Hussein's capture is a negative omen for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign and points toward continuing disorder and resistance in Iraq.

The German Marshall Fund statistics were circulated, showing that the gap between American and European attitudes is widening and that Europeans increasingly disapprove of America's position as the sole superpower.

The unofficial Middle East peace plan unveiled in Geneva on Oct. 12 by former Israeli and Palestinian officials is the first hopeful initiative since the collapse of the Taba peace negotiations in 2001.

Despite the optimism at the Pentagon about Iraqi operations, Tuesday's speeches at the United Nations General Assembly may actually prove to be a step toward an American retreat from Baghdad, possibly before the end of this year.

Condoleezza Rice said the time has come "to break the destructive pattern of great power rivalry that has bedeviled the world since the rise of the nation-state in the 17th century."

The Bush administration and its supporters continue to react to the deteriorating situation in Iraq with shock and denial.

The trouble with American conservatism during most of the 20th century was that it was not particularly intelligent. The Republican Party was and is a business party, anti-intellectual and to a considerable degree xenophobic.

While American troops have begun their attack on Baghdad, the coalition forces still have not taken any of Iraq's major cities.

The American Phony War is damaging the international economy, the principal international security and political institutions, and what is left of the American reputation for seriousness.

President George W. Bush continues to repeat moral arguments for a U.S.

A nation with the power and ambition of today's United States owes it to itself, and to the world, to know facts. Knowing what actually happened, rather than myths about what happened, would seem essential to avoiding error about what may happen in the future.

In the months following the terrorist attacks of September 2001, it was politically taboo to say that the United States had in some way brought these attacks upon itself. Television talk show hosts and print journalists lost their jobs for suggesting such a thing.

NATO was supposed to have been recast this week to meet the threat of terrorism, but no one has yet offered a clear explanation of what NATO can do to prevent new attacks on Western targets by highly motivated individuals or bands of Islamic militants, determined to punish Westerners for what histor

The 21st-century destiny of the United States has proved to be global hegemony, but is this to be an hegemony well assumed and acknowledged as legitimate, or is it to be illegitimate, resented, resisted and short-lived?

American defiance of what Washington likes to call "the rest of the world" was the subject most discussed in this year's weeklong Papandreou Foundation seminar in Greece, bringing European government and international institution officials together with U.S. academics and observers.

What set out to be an American war on terrorism has become a war against Afghanistan. The substitution of Afghanistan for terrorism, or the identification of the one with the other, is not only unjust but diverts U.S. policy from where it was intended to go, to where it is the most simple to go.