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...more than a half-century, American foreign policy involving oil has been cloaked in intrigue and deception, from the overthrow of the Premier of Iran in 1953 to the arming of Afghan rebels through the 1980s, from the permanent establishment of a military presence in the Persian Gulf to the early support of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. If Iraq is now handled openly--meaning the war really was about liberating Iraq from a dictator and the rest of the world from a security threat, as the Bush Administration asserts, and not about gaining control of oil reserves, as much...
...most part ignoring coalition troops and administrators, have organized local militia to stop looting, provide security and restore basic services. But given the strong influence of Islamist radicals among them, these are not the elements the U.S. had hoped to see fill the power vacuum left by Saddam's overthrow...
...Even if Kim should fall to a U.S. onslaught, it's unlikely there will be post-overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden...
...technocrats that Mexico had to change in a fundamental way--that its society and politics, not just its economy, had to welcome new ideas. After a decade and a half of many bumps and some tragedies, the process reached a pinnacle when the 2000 presidential election saw the overthrow of the old order. The candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had ruled Mexico without a break since the 1920s, lost to Vicente...
...civil rights we're demanding." Can Payá do in Cuba what Vaclav Havel did in Czechoslovakia? Castro's rule has proved more durable than the Iron Curtain. But Payá is unique, says José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Instead of trying to overthrow Castro - as the U.S. has tried to do with its failed 41-year economic embargo - Payá "is openly challenging Castro's system by using the system itself." Payá's Varela Project has collected the signatures needed for a plebiscite - permitted under Castro's constitution - on free speech, multiparty...