Stories written by Jim Lobe
Jim Lobe joined IPS in 1979 and opened its Washington, D.C. bureau in 1980, serving as bureau chief for most of the years since. He founded his popular blog dedicated to United Stated foreign policy in 2007. Jim is best known for his coverage of U.S. foreign policy for IPS, particularly the neo–conservative influence in the former George W. Bush administration. He has also written for Foreign Policy In Focus, AlterNet, The American Prospect and Tompaine.com, among numerous other outlets; has been featured in on-air interviews for various television news stations around the world, including Al Jazeera English; and was featured in BBC and ABC television documentaries about motivations for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Jim has also lectured on U.S. foreign policy, neo-conservative ideology, the Bush administration and foreign policy and the U.S. mainstream media at various colleges and universities around the United States and world. A proud native of Seattle, Washington, Jim received a B.A. degree with highest honours in history at Williams College and a J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. | Web | Facebook |

POLITICS-U.S.: Conservative Christians Biggest Backers of Iraq War

By Jim Lobe
Of the major religious groups in the United States, evangelical Christians are the biggest backers of Israel and Washington's planned war against Iraq, says a new survey released here Wednesday by a politically potent group of fundamentalist Christians and Jews.

POLITICS-U.S.: Conservative Christians Biggest Backers of Iraq War

By Jim Lobe
Of the major religious groups in the United States, evangelical Christians are the biggest backers of Israel and Washington's planned war against Iraq, says a new survey released here Wednesday by a politically potent group of fundamentalist Christians and Jews.

POLITICS: Arab Public Opinion Deeply Ambivalent About U.S.

By Jim Lobe
Public opinion across the Arab world is deeply ambivalent about the United States, which is widely admired for its technological prowess and political institutions but disdained and even hatred for its policies toward Palestinians and Israel, says an unprecedented survey released here Tuesday.

MIDDLE EAST: Arab Public Opinion Ambivalent about U.S.

By Jim Lobe
Public opinion across the Arab world is deeply ambivalent about the United States, which is widely admired for its technological prowess and political institutions but disdained and even hatred for its policies toward Palestinians and Israel, says an unprecedented new survey.

POLITICS: Arab Public Opinion Deeply Ambivalent About U.S.

By Jim Lobe
Public opinion across the Arab world is deeply ambivalent about the United States, which is widely admired for its technological prowess and political institutions but disdained and even hatred for its policies toward Palestinians and Israel, says an unprecedented survey released here Tuesday.

RIGHTS: U.S. Report says Muslim States Low on Religious Freedom

By Jim Lobe
The U.S. State Department on Monday accused several Muslim states, as well as China, of denying religious freedom to their citizens and discriminating against religious minorities.

RIGHTS: U.S. Report says Muslim States Low on Religious Freedom

By Jim Lobe
The U.S. State Department on Monday accused several Muslim states, as well as China, of denying religious freedom to their citizens and discriminating against religious minorities.

RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: U.S. Groups Hail Mack Verdict Against Officer

By Jim Lobe
Major U.S. human rights groups hailed Thursday's conviction of a senior Guatemalan intelligence officer in the 1990 murder of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist who conducted research on army abuses against rural indigenous communities in the 1980s.

POLITICS-U.S.: The Emperor Within the Empire

By Jim Lobe
''Who died and left Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of State?'' asked an August column by David Corn of The Nation, a prominent left-wing U.S. newsweekly.

RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: U.S. Groups Hail Mack Verdict Against Officer

By Jim Lobe
Major U.S. human rights groups hailed Thursday's conviction of a senior Guatemalan intelligence officer in the 1990 murder of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist who conducted research on army abuses against rural indigenous communities in the 1980s.

POLITICS-U.S.: The Emperor Within the Empire

By Jim Lobe
"Who died and left Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of State?" asked an August column by David Corn of The Nation, a prominent left-wing U.S. newsweekly.

POLITICS-U.S.: Democrats’ OK on Resolution Marks Big Step to War

By Jim Lobe
War with Iraq moved a big step closer Wednesday as Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed on the wording of a resolution authorising the president to take military action.

POLITICS-U.S.: Democrats’ OK on Resolution Marks Big Step to War

By Jim Lobe
War with Iraq moved a big step closer Wednesday as Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed on the wording of a resolution authorising the president to take military action.

POLITICS-U.S.: Democrats’ OK on Resolution Marks Big Step to War

By Jim Lobe
War with Iraq moved a big step closer Wednesday as Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed on the wording of a resolution authorising the president to take military action.

POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks Now Justify Iraq Strike as War for Democracy

By Jim Lobe
The normally cool - if not coldly analytical - Anthony Cordesman was uncharacteristically heated as he warmed to his subject.

POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks Now Justify Iraq Strike as War for Democracy

By Jim Lobe
The normally cool - if not coldly analytical - Anthony Cordesman was uncharacteristically heated as he warmed to his subject.

ENVIRONMENT: Report Attacks Bank for Backing Waste Incineration

By Jim Lobe
In spite of a global treaty that requires countries to minimise the use of waste incinerators that produce toxic pollutants, the World Bank and its affiliates continue to promote projects in developing countries that include incinerators, according to a coalition of international environmental and health groups.

ENVIRONMENT: Report Disputes View that Mining Spurs Development

By Jim Lobe
The World Bank and other international financial institutions (IFIs) should reassess their continued backing for mining projects in poor countries, says a report released Monday by Oxfam America.

AMERICAS: Economic Equality Good for Health – Report

By Jim Lobe
The wider the gap between rich and poor in societies of the Americas, the worse the health situation, both for rich and for poor, according to a major new report by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) released here Monday.

POLITICS-U.S.: Iraq – Such Big Questions, So Little Time

By Jim Lobe
With Washington war drums pounding ever louder, President George W. Bush's request to Congress for the broadest possible authority to disarm Iraq and oust its leader sets up a momentous debate over how much power Congress will cede to the president and about the future use of U.S. military power abroad.

RIGHTS-U.S.: Oil Firm Liable for Overseas Abuses by ‘Agents’

By Jim Lobe
In a landmark decision hailed by human rights and corporate accountability activists, a federal appeals court has ruled that oil giant Unocal can be sued for forced labour, rape, and murder committed by Burmese soldiers guarding a major gas pipeline project completed three years ago.
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