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Cambodia: A Sinister Precedent?
Last September, during the American presidential campaign, I wrote a column declaring that the United States had again invaded Cambodia, only this...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The, 07/01/09 by Pfaff, William · More from publication -
Consumed by zeal: boycotting Obama at Notre Dame
One might have thought that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States had for the moment offered the chance of a settlement of...
Commonweal, 04/24/09 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
What Is the Message of Terrorism Without a Message?
What is the message of a terrorist attack that fails to deliver a message? Threats and warnings are being exchanged by India and Pakistan about the...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The, 01/01/09 by Pfaff, William · More from publication -
No one guilty? Accountability & the financial crisis
During a weekend discussion of the world credit crisis by the Trilateral European Group in Paris last month, one of a panel of bankers said that...
Commonweal, 12/01/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
Broken promise: the price of expanding NATO
It did not take the clash between Russia and Georgia to reveal that relations between Russia and the West have taken a bad turn. They have been...
Commonweal, 11/07/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
The fall: original sin & free-market capitalism
Karl Marx, were he still about, would surely be interested in the report that unregulated free-market capitalism has died in a flash, by its own...
Commonweal, 10/10/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
General malfeasance: will GM betray its workers?
According to a new book, and an old theory, the reason capitalism is in crisis is that it spends too much on its workers. According to a new...
Commonweal, 08/15/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
It ain't over: planning for perpetual war
The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon has prepared a $5 billion commercial development plan for the Green Zone in Baghdad (currently under...
Commonweal, 05/23/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
Olympian hurdles: China, the torch & Tibet
The International Olympic Committee's decision to grant China the right to organize the 2008 summer games was another unfortunate case of...
Commonweal, 04/25/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication -
Shell game: the subprime mortgage swindle
The international reaction to the present credit crisis, the most serious since 1929, reveals a curious disposition to accept what has happened as...
Commonweal, 04/11/08 by William Pfaff · More from publication
