by PPJC Admin2 | December 19, 2014 | PPJC Picks
By Paul Pillar Consortium News China wasn’t available to open up to, because Richard Nixon already did that over four decades ago, in a process that was completed when full diplomatic relations were established with the People’s Republic during Jimmy Carter’s...
by TD Daniell | November 10, 2014 | Current News
Peter Van Buren TomDispatch Home Karl von Clausewitz, the famed Prussian military thinker, is best known for his aphorism “War is the continuation of state policy by other means.” But what happens to a war in the absence of coherent state policy? Actually, we now...
by PPJC Admin2 | September 8, 2014 | PPJC Picks
By Gary Younge The Guardian In 1964, then-former US secretary of state and foreign policy adviser Dean Acheson elaborated a plan for the partition of Cyprus which proved unpalatable to all concerned parties. During a visit to Washington, the Greek prime minister and...
by TD Daniell | June 12, 2014 | Current News
Amy Goodman Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/children_on_the_run_the_deepening_immigration_crisis_20140611 Have you seen the pictures? All the kids, sleeping on floors in row upon row, detained by the Department of Homeland Security. There are more...
by PPJC Admin2 | March 19, 2014 | PPJC Picks
By John J. Mearsheimer New York Times President Obama has decided to get tough with Russia by imposing sanctions and increasing support for Ukraine’s new government. This is a big mistake. This response is based...