Mar 8, 2008 | Debates
I would like, first of all, to thank President Havel for staging this debate today, and President Robinson for chairing it. I never thought I would be seating so close to Jim Wolfensohn. I guess this is what you call combat in close quarters. The International...
Mar 8, 2008 | Speeches
The first is the crisis of overextension, or the growing gap between imperial reach and imperial grasp, the most striking example of which is the US's being drawn into a quagmire in Iraq. This has led to an erosion of its strategic position globally and made the...
Mar 8, 2008 | Speeches
These year's massive protests are in the tradition of the global protests against the war of Feb. 15, 2003 and March 20, 2004. They underline the world's continuing repudiation of the massive war crime that the US is perpetrating against the Iraqi people. They...
Mar 8, 2008 | Speeches
More recently, the influence of academia on politicians and policymakers has been most evident in the massive impact of Milton Friedman and the University of Chicago School of economics. The political success of the free market policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret...
Mar 8, 2008 | Speeches
The reality is that the old game of domination and occupation continues, and the US is not winning. The triumphalism that accompanied George W. Bush's tour of "Old Europe," with his brand new Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, at his side, was a public...
