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Why Washington's Attempts to Export Democracy Never Bear Fruit

Edit Sputnik 29 Apr 2016
US professor Stephen M. Walt poses the question. what is the best way to promote democracy in the world? Does foreign-imposed regime change work or maybe diplomacy is the right approach? ... ....

Dying to Forget the Israel Lobby?

Edit CounterPunch 22 Apr 2016
A decade ago Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published their article “The Israel Lobby,”precursor to their 2007 book, ... historian Stephen Sniegoski ... It reveals perhaps most of all the level of discussion in the United States, ten years after Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt tried to mainstream the issue of the Israel Lobby....

Barack Obama's biggest mistake as president? His failure to explain big picture

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 11 Apr 2016
Harvard professor in international relations Stephen Walt ticks off Obama successes – an improving US image in the world; well managed relations with China, despite the US "pivot to Asia"; conclusion of and management to date of the Iran nuclear deal; the thaw with Cuba; and advances on nuclear security and climate change ... Walt writes....

Why the Israel Lobby is Israel’s Own Worst Enemy

Edit CounterPunch 01 Apr 2016
Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, distinguished scholars at two of America’s top universities ... Mearsheimer and Walt were demonized as anti-semetics who wanted to bring back Hitler ... No member of the Israel Lobby has the stature and distinction of Mearsheimer, Walt, and President Carter ... The behavior of the Israel Lobby indicates that far stronger criticism of the Lobby is warranted than supplied by Mearsheimer, Walt, and President Carter....

For Israel’s Sake The Israel Lobby Must Be Held To Account. “The Lobby’s Power is ...

Edit GlobalResearch 01 Apr 2016
It was ten years ago that the London Review of Books published an article on the Israel Lobby by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, distinguished scholars at two of America’s top universities. The following year the publisher, Farrar,… ... ....

Three Days Undercover at the Israel Lobby’s Biggest Policy Conference

Edit Alternet 28 Mar 2016
23.8.) ... Blending In ... Who’s Afraid of BDS? ... When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer published their landmark book The Israel Lobby and U.S ... And though the facts speak for themselves—AIPAC dropped nearly $3.4 million on lobbying campaigns in 2015, $1.67 million of which it spent in the first half of the year alone to lobby Congress against the Iran deal—accusations of anti-Semitism dog Walt and Mearsheimer to this day ... Freedom Beats Tyranny....

Corbyn’s Progress

Edit CounterPunch 11 Mar 2016
/. The UK state – its economy, its culture, its fractured identities and party system – is in a much deeper crisis than many want to accept. Its governors, at least in public, remain in semi-denial ... (Trump’s recent assault on Bush over the Iraq War owes much to their work.) John Mearsheimer at Chicago, Stephen Walt at Harvard, Barry Posen at MIT and Christopher Layne in Texas are joined by a former four-star general, Andrew Bacevich ... ....

A Final Rejoinder to Sam Harris

Edit Huffington Post 10 Mar 2016
I do not worry about these people. They have always been with us; they add a variety to life ... As of today, Harris steadfastly refuses to air the complete audio ... First ... This number was a back-of-the-envelope calculated by Harvard's Stephen Walt on his Foreign Policy blog several years ago, and is obviously on the higher end of estimates, but Harris has not said much about the deaths of innocent civilians at even one-tenth of this number ... ....

Were We Lied Into War?

Edit Antiwar 19 Feb 2016
William E ... Here is neocon propagandist Stephen Hayes retailing a leaked “secret” memo to give credence to the debunked story of a meeting between 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence ... Kristol & Co ... But who? ... ‘Mr ... Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer showed in their book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, that the Jewish state’s American amen corner played an instrumental role in agitating for the Iraq war ... So please....

Eisenhower's Middle East Is No More

Edit Real Clear Politics 05 Feb 2016
With the 2016 Iowa caucuses now behind us, and the New Hampshire primary election set for next week, we at the Mideast Memo are reminded of another U.S. presidential election 60 years ago. Incumbent President Dwight D ... Containing Soviet influence was the overriding goal during the Cold War, and the clarity of that objective made it easier to set priorities and sustain consistent policies," writes political scientist Stephen Walt ... ....

By Philip Giraldi

Edit Information Clearing House 27 Jan 2016
January 27, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Unz Review" - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly knows how to return a favor ... We are helping them to do what we ask them not to do. Insanity? ... delegation is due to arrive in Tel Aviv to discuss Israel’s new aid package ... They won’t get in the way.” ... Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard has recently suggested that the most influential papers within the U.S....

Divide et Impera

Edit Information Clearing House 12 Jan 2016
The Imperialist Violence in Syria, Part 3 of 7 - Part 1.  . By Kim Petersen and B. J. Sabri. From The WikiLeaks Files. ... The author of the cable was William Roebuck, at the time chargé d'affaires at the US embassy in Damascus ... In his summary of the cable, Roebuck wrote. ... Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, “”) toward the Arab states, and because Syria is the last Arab state resisting Israeli imperialism there are two concrete answers.7 ... B. J....

Why the War Party Dominates the Media

Edit Antiwar 11 Jan 2016
Stephen Walt has an excellent albeit incomplete piece in Foreign Policy magazine that raises an important question ... Walt uses the term “realist” as a synonym for anti-interventionist, in part because Foreign Policy is a quasi-academic journal, and in part because Walt is one of the leading advocates of the realist school, i.e ... Walt is right....
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