Home | Book | Articles | Biography | Contact Articles and Reports Poverty in a Time of Empire: Why Foreign Aid Can't "Make Poverty History," (2006) a lengthy article critiquing the "Make Poverty History" campaign and economist Jeffrey Sachs' book "The End of Poverty." The article shows how foreign aid serves the purposes of northern domination rather than southern development, and calls for a U.S. foreign policy of demilitarization and cooperation. There is also an oped length version and a letter published in the April 2, 2006, New York Times Book Review making similar points about a review of economist William Easterly's book "The White Man's Burden." A Response to Self-congratulationism,(2006) the full submission to Foreign Policy magazine in response to an article extolling the impact of the American empire. (This much-shortened letter appears in the Spring 2006 issue.) The Solution to the American Empire: Disunion Now, Disunion Forever! (2005) A lengthy article on the impossibility of timely reform of U.S. national security policy. Empire is Evil: Why, and How, We Should Dismantle America's, opinion piece written in South Africa, March 2005. Empire is Evil: It is Time to Dismantle Ours, earlier version of this opinion piece on building an anti-imperialist movement, June 23, 2004. AU and Iraq, opinion piece opposing American University support for the occupation of Iraq, in the American University Eagle, January 22, 2004. Also available on the Eagle website. Open Letter on American University Support for the Occupation of Iraq, statement of opposition to AU contract from the occupying authority, July 10, 2003. Arms Control by War, opinion article in the American University Eagle, December 5, 2003, describing how U.S. "nuclear detectives" monitor Iraqi enrichment of uranium, making unnecessary the invasion being promoted by the Bush Administration's "Vulcans." Antipersonnel Land Mines: Currently Available and Near-Term Alternatives to Achieve Combined Forces Command Objectives in Korea, Briefing for the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Land Mines, December 10, 1999 Winning in Korea without Landmines: Alternatives to Speed Victory and Reduce Allied Casualties, a more extensive report on the issue, published by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation as Vol. 1, Number 3, VVAF Monograph Series, Summer 2000. This summary page includes a pdf file for the entire report, which takes a while to up-load. For a short opinion piece, see: Fighting in Korea with Antiquated Weapons. Think Globally, Run Locally: What I Learned Running for Congress As A Progressive, August 23, 1999 Cornell's Student Revolt of 1969: A Rare Case of Democracy on Campus, Originally published in The Progressive, Ithaca, NY, May 5, 1999 A Tompkins County Hero - George Kahin, Published in the Ithaca (NY) Journal, May 5, 2000 From Vietnam to Colombia - via El Salvador: The Tactics Have Changed, but the Goal and the Failure of Leadership Remain the Same, September 2000 Making the Same Mistakes in Colombia, a shorter version of the same article, published by the Global Beat Service, November 22, 2000. The Mathematics of Musical Scales, a paper in number theory, Fall 2000. Boycott DC'S Standardized Test for Elementary School Children: "Teaching to the Test" Is All Cost, No Benefit, a version of an article appearing in the Washington, DC, Northwest Current, March 21, 2001.