Articles by William Pfaff
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The End of the Israeli-American Alliance
William Pfaff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
The alliance of the United States with Israel has become internationally seen as an alliance of international lawbreakers, which literally is true because of the indifference both states demonstrate to the established norms and conventions of international justice. “There is some confusion in Israel borne of an exaggerated sense of self-importance. The strategic asset in this equation is the U.S. for Israel, not the other way around.”
→ read full articleTurkey in Position to Lead Region Out of Tumultuous Century
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
20 Jun 2011
Twenty-seven European states, all at one or another time part of warring dynastic, nationalistic or ethnocentric imperial state systems, have now found peace. Turkey has for years struggled without success to become a member of this European community of peace. Possibly the failure was destiny. There is a Muslim community of peace for Turkey to inspire.
→ read full articleThe Shifting Balance of Power
William Pfaff – Truthdig,
1 Nov 2010
An epoch of Western world political domination is coming to an end. This is not simply an end to imperialism (new or old), but quite possibly the beginning of a probably long decline in the West’s primacy in industry, technology and scientific innovation.
→ read full articleThe NATO Nuisance
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
3 May 2010
Large and firmly implanted bureaucratic organizations are almost impossible to kill, even when they have no reason to continue to exist, as NATO has not since the Soviet Union, communism and the Warsaw Pact all collapsed.
→ read full articleWhat Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Conference Missed
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
19 Apr 2010
The specific inspiration for weapons proliferation among vulnerable Third World states is the desire to have a nuclear deterrent against invasion or attack by the United States (or in the Iran case, Israel), or by some other nation in the future.
→ read full articleCOMPETITION IN IGNOMINY
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
4 Mar 2010
There is a lot of money to be made by big international banks in impoverished small, and even medium-size, countries in times of world crisis.On my flight to Doha, where money doesn’t seem to be a problem, I read in London’s Guardian about the vultures making serious money out of the poorest national economies in […]
→ read full articleU.S. ALLIES IN EUROPE BEGIN TO PULL BACK
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
24 Feb 2010
Last Friday [Feb 19 2010] five NATO governments made it known that they want American nuclear weapons removed from their territories. They include the Benelux three, together with Germany and Norway. The five reportedly will ask that all the European NATO governments endorse their position before a meeting in New York in May. The Dutch […]
→ read full articleTHE QUESTION NO U.S. OFFICIAL DARE ASK
William Pfaff - Truthdig,
9 Jan 2010
It could be, as they say in the bureaucracies, “a career destroyer” to ask whether it has been a terrible error for the United States to have built a system of more than 700 military bases and stations girdling the world.It is time to ask a question that virtually no one in an official or […]
→ read full articleWHY DID SO FEW AMERICANS GIVE A DAMN?
William Pfaff,
8 Mar 2009
The documents currently being released by the Justice Department that demonstrate the Bush administration’s view of the president’s constitutional power in a “state of war” tell us things we suspected but didn’t want to know. The first seven of these official memorandums issued last week dealt with claimed presidential powers to unilaterally abrogate international treaties; […]
→ read full articleWEST’S ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN NEEDS RE-EXAMINING
William Pfaff,
11 Dec 2008
It seems agreed here that the overwhelming majority of Germans are against any expansion of the German role in Afghanistan if it means German troops in combat. Germany’s soldiers complain about this because it puts them personally in an invidious position among most of the rest of the NATO forces in that country. It also […]
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