Red Ink Rising: Congress Needs To Take A Hard Look At New Loans To Defaulting Moscow
U.S. taxpayers are facing a rapidly-rising pool of red ink marring the books of two U.S. government lending agencies --...
National Security Policy
Wake-Up Call From Saddam: Turkey Is A Friend In Need, A Friend Indeed
If nothing else, the renewed outbreak of hostilities with Saddam Hussein's Iraq is an important reminder of the volatility of...
Say It Ain’t So: Clinton’s Pledge To Restore Moral Compass In Foreign Policy Abandoned Before The Inauguration?
(Washington, D.C.): In the course of a press conference yesterday, President-elect Bill Clinton sounded a breathtakingly conciliatory note toward Saddam...
Overdue, Underdone: What the Coalition Air Strikes on Iraq Should Have Been About, But Weren’t
(Washington, D.C.): For the second time in as many years, U.S. and coalition forces in the Persian Gulf have been...
The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience: The New Chemical Weapons Treaty Is A Dangerous Delusion
Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages represent "the triumph of hope over experience." The same applies to much of...
How Not to Lend To A Bankrupt Russia: Eximbank Energy Deal Should Be Iced, Reworked
The terms of a multi-billion dollar series of loan guarantees to the Russian oil and gas sector in preparation by...
‘IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO’ IN: TIME TO END THE WEST’S ‘KITTY GENOVESE’ SYNDROME ON BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
(Washington, D.C.): However inconvenient it may be in light of the political transition underway at the moment, the United States...
REVOLVING DOORS: EXIMBANK OFFICIAL’S SCANDALOUS SELF-DEALING IS A BLOW TO U.S. TAXPAYERS, ‘REDCARPET’ FOR RETURNING RUSSIAN HARDLINERS — AND THEIR AMERICAN FRIENDS
(Washington, D.C.): The outgoing Bush Administration is poised to extend some $2 billion in U.S. Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) loan guarantees...
AS PREDICTED, A ‘DECEMBER SURPRISE’ FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS; G-7 DEBT RESCHEDULING REWARDS KREMLIN FOR GAIDAR’S OUSTER
(Washington, D.C.): As predicted by the Center for Security Policy in July 1992, the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations...
Excerpts from a Center for Security Policy White Paper entitled “Economic Security and Global Defense” by Roger W. Robinson, Jr. 25 November 1992
Fact Vs. Fiction In Contemporary Security Policy "The Soviet Threat Is No More" Probably the most popular -- and insidious...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: SYRIA’S STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH IRAN REVEALS BOTH NATIONS’ TRUE MIDEASTINTENTIONS
(Washington, D.C.): Iran's recent, controversial deal to buy three advanced diesel submarines from Russia is but the latest evidence of...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #10:
COUP II (PART II) — WHAT THE U.S. SHOULD DO NOW
(Washington, D.C.): Events over the past 48 hours suggest a further unravelling of the democratic forces' hold on power in...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #9:
COUP II — THE UNFOLDING CRISIS IN THE FORMER USSR>
(Washington, D.C.): As the decision over who will lead the United States for the next four years approaches its denouement,...
A GOOD QUESTION FOR THE VOTERS:
‘WHO DO YOU TRUST?’
(Washington, D.C.): Bush Administration officials attempting to manage the unravelling Iraqgate cover-up evidently are taking their cue from the Titanic's...
‘SITUATION NORMAL(IZED)’: WILL BUSH-BAKER GET AWAY WITH PROPPING UP ONE LAST TYRANNICAL REGIME?
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration may be about to lose its mandate to govern. If so, one factor almost certainly...
90/90 HINDSIGHT’: IS PRESIDENT BUSH BEING BLINDSIDED ON IRAQGATE — OR IS HE PART OF THE COVERUP?
(Washington, D.C.): On 10 October 1992, National Security Advisor to the President Brent Scowcroft published a carefully-crafted -- and cynically...