Monthly Archives: May 2011

By Simon Johnson Ms. Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, is the nominee of the European Union for the recently vacant position of managing director at the International Monetary Fund.  The EU has just over 30 percent of the votes in … Continue reading →

G8 Summit-News Analysis-05-26-2011-(Part2)

by David Elkins, Antiwar.com, 27 May 2011 U.S. lawmakers have introduced a new package of unilateral sanctions targeting Iran that would challenge U.S. President Obama’s discretionary authority to enforce such sanctions and would impose comprehensive restrictions on foreign entities that … Continue reading →

BY RASHID KHALIDI The old Arabic proverb has it that the dogs bark but the caravan goes on. President Obama’s comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his speeches last week at the State Department and then at the American Israel … Continue reading →

By Dana Frank, The Progressive, 27 May 2011 The return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras doesn’t mean democracy, civil liberties and the basic rule of law are returning to that country any time soon. Far from it. The … Continue reading →