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-US: Clinton, Congress Reach Tentative Pact on UN Arrears

By Jim Lobe
President Bill Clinton's administration has reached a tentative agreement with Congress to clear up US arrears with the United Nations and allow a big international debt- relief initiative to go forward, while slightly reducing US aid for population control.

POLITICS: Wahid Bolsters Indonesia’s Relations With U.S.

By Jim Lobe
Indonesia's new president Abdurrahman Wahid heads for Japan Monday after a fence-mending trip to the United States that included a meeting with President Bill Clinton and visits to the headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

FINANCE-US: International Private Banking in the Spotlight

By Jim Lobe
Western nations have complained for years that many leaders in the Third World are guilty of looting their nations' treasuries, soliciting bribes and accepting kick backs from public contracts.

TRADE-US: Environmentalists to Sit on Trade Panels

By Jim Lobe
Environmentalists scored a big legal victory this week when a US federal court judge ordered the government to include at least one representative from the environmental activist community on the two panels that advise it on international trade policy.

ECONOMY: Globalisation Not Working for Democracy in Latin America

By Jim Lobe
Market reforms and democratisation - the dominant economic and political trends in Latin America in the 1990s - are in deep trouble, according to a pessimistic report issued here by a group of influential personalities from the Americas.

RIGHTS-US: Children Abused in Jails Near US Capital

By Jim Lobe
Hundreds of children were being held in "appalling conditions" in jails in the state of Maryland, just north of the US capital, the watchdog organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.

POLITICS-US.: Republicans Bow to Clinton’S Foreign-Aid Demands

By Jim Lobe
Republican lawmakers, battered by administration charges of isolationism, finally have bowed to most of President Bill Clinton's demands to increase the foreign-aid budget for next year.

POLITICS: US Hopeful of New Relations with Nigeria

By Jim Lobe
One week after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's visit to Washington, the US administration has indicated it intends forming a new relationship with the African nation.

RIGHTS-US: Children Abused in Jails Near US Capital

By Jim Lobe
Hundreds of children were being held in "appalling conditions" in jails in the state of Maryland, just north of the US capital, the watchdog organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.

DRUGS-AMERICAS: Call for End to Drug War

By Jim Lobe
Top anti-drug officials from North and Latin America, gathered in Washington for the Western Hemisphere Drug Leadership Conference, should call a halt to the US-led "war on drugs", according to a group of prominent personalities from the Americas.

TRADE-US: Africa, CBI Trade Bill Revived

By Jim Lobe
Legislation designed to boost US trade and investment in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin has been revived in Washington after the Senate agreed Tuesday to limit debate on the measure and take a final vote later this week.

ENVIRONMENT: Activists Pressure US to Clean Up Overseas Bases

By Jim Lobe
Local communities around the world affected by toxic chemicals, unexploded ordnance - and other health and environmental hazards left behind at US military bases - have stepped up demands for Washington to clean up the mess.

RIGHTS-U.S.: Release of Immigrant Jailed on Secret Evidence Hailed

By Jim Lobe
Civil rights activists hailed this week's release of a Palestinian immigrant from 19 months in jail after a federal judge ruled that the government's use of secret evidence against him violated the US Constitution.

TRADE-US: Political Wrangling Derails Africa, CBI Trade Bills

By Jim Lobe
Partisan wrangling in the US Senate Friday derailed - at least temporarily - legislation designed to increase US trade and investment in sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of the Caribbean Basin.

RIGHTS-U.S.: Release of Immigrant Jailed on Secret Evidence Hailed

By Jim Lobe
Civil rights activists hailed this week's release of a Palestinian immigrant from 19 months in jail after a federal judge ruled that the government's use of secret evidence against him violated the US Constitution.

RIGHTS-IRAQ: US Says It Will Press for Saddam’s Indictment

By Jim Lobe
The United States is seeking the indictment before an international tribunal of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and key figures in his regime for crimes against humanity, according to a senior US diplomat.

POLITICS: US Links with Taiwan Likely to Aggravate China

By Jim Lobe
A US Congressional committee, in a move likely to aggravate tension with China, has approved a bill to upgrade US military ties with Taiwan.

POLITICS-US: Berger Lashes Republican Isolationists

By Jim Lobe
US presidential security adviser Sandy Berger, stung by the Senate's rejection last week of the nuclear test-ban treaty, came out swinging Thursday against right-wing Republicans who opposed an internationalist foreign policy.

POLITICS: US Ready to OK Army Rule in Pakistan – with Conditions

By Jim Lobe
While the United States insists that it will not carry on "business as usual" with any military-run government in Pakistan, the administration appears ready to offer the generals its conditional support.

POLITICS-US: Return of Fortress America?

By Jim Lobe
President Bill Clinton waded into the Republican dominated US Senate this week for refusing to ratify the Comprehensive Test Bank Treaty (CTBT) that he called the latest in a series of signs of a "new isolationism."

FOOD-AFRICA: Restoring Soil Fertility Key to Food Production

By Jim Lobe
Food production in Africa - whose population is the world's fastest-growing - cannot be substantially increased unless its soil is conserved and restored, according to a new analysis by the United Nations.
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