Here is an alternative direction for US global engagement put forward by John Feffer at Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), Institute for Policy Studies.
FPIF is promoting a ‘Just Security’ program that calls for:
* A reduction of $213 billion in U.S. military spending, or one-third of the total “defense” budget.
* Dramatic cuts in U.S. and Russian […]
Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba I believe, but by a wonderful legalist sleight of hand it is not Cuban national territory. While it is totally controlled by the US it is not US territory either. It is a kind of convenient ‘no mans land’ that the current administration has been using to hold various suspects […]
Archimedes said, ‘Give me a lever and I will move the world.’
Better to say ‘Give me a perspective so I can see the world’. A perspective gives us a viewline, and everything is seen through that viewline. Those in the centre see differently from those on the periphery. In Australia, our geography places us on […]
