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 |

U.S.: Test of 15-Billion-Dollar Global AIDS Measure Comes Later

By Jim Lobe
The U.S. House of Representatives' approval Thursday of a five-year, 15 billion dollar package to fight HIV/AIDS in 14 African and Caribbean nations is a key victory for President George W Bush and anti-AIDS activists, but the concrete test of this commitment lies ahead.

U.S.: Test of 15-Billion-Dollar Global AIDS Measure Comes Later

By Jim Lobe
The U.S. House of Representatives' approval Thursday of a five-year, 15 billion dollar package to fight HIV/AIDS in 14 African and Caribbean nations is a key victory for President George W Bush and anti-AIDS activists, but the concrete test of this commitment lies ahead.

POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Commitment to Mideast Road Map Doubtful

By Jim Lobe
Will President George W. Bush follow in his father's footsteps after a previous military victory against Iraq and exert serious pressure on Israel to implement the ''road map'' to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that was released by the State Department on Wednesday?

POLITICS-U.S.: Public Still Rejects Unilateralism, Imperial Role

By Jim Lobe
If the unilateralist hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush were hoping that the easier than expected military victory in Iraq would bring the U.S. public closer to their views, they are likely to be very disappointed by the latest polling.

POLITICS-U.S.: Public Still Rejects Unilateralism, Imperial Role

By Jim Lobe
If the unilateralist hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush were hoping that the easier than expected military victory in Iraq would bring the U.S. public closer to their views, they are likely to be very disappointed by the latest polling.

DEVELOPMENT: Netherlands, Denmark Most Committed to Poor – Index

By Jim Lobe
Of the world's 21 wealthiest developed countries, the Netherlands, Denmark and Portugal are the most helpful in fighting poverty in the world's poor nations, according to a new index released Monday by two peace and development organisations.

RIGHTS: U.S. Oil Firm Occidental Sued for 1998 Colombia Bombing

By Jim Lobe
International human rights attorneys Friday filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum and its security contractor, AirScan Inc. for their role in the bombing that killed 18 civilians, including six children, in a Colombian village in December 1998.

HEALTH-U.S.: Sugar Interests Sour on New WHO Report

By Jim Lobe
The U.S. sugar industry is furious over Wednesday's release by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of a new report on chronic diseases that calls on consumers to limit sugar in their diets.

HEALTH-US: Sugar Interests Sour on New WHO Report

By Jim Lobe
The U.S. sugar industry is furious over Wednesday's release by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of a new report on chronic diseases that calls on consumers to limit sugar in their diets.

ENVIRONMENT-U.S.: Activists Claim Big Win in Shareholder Vote

By Jim Lobe
The season of corporate shareholder meetings is just underway but already global warming activists have claimed a major victory in the first of a series of 14 anticipated fights with the executives of some of the country's largest companies.

IRAQ: U.S. Neo-Conservatives Launch War at Home

By Jim Lobe
Only a week after U.S. military forces consolidated their control of Baghdad, a new war has broken out, this time in Washington.

/MAY DAY/ECONOMY: Coffee Giant Spurns Fair Trade Outreach to Shareholders

By Jim Lobe
Oxfam International's first effort to bring its campaign to save the livelihoods of some 25 million coffee farmers in poor countries to the notice of company shareholders was stymied Tuesday by one of the world's largest roasters, Kraft Foods.

IRAQ: Occupied Nation Proposed as Mideast Hub for U.S. Military

By Jim Lobe
Reports that the administration of President George W. Bush is planning to establish and maintain as many as four military bases in Iraq for an extended period of time are likely to intensify the negative feelings of Iraqis about the U.S. invasion of the country, say regional experts here.

IRAQ: Were U.S. Weapons Claims Exaggerated?

By Jim Lobe
Exactly one month ago, U.S. President George W. Bush declared that unless Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his two sons left the country, the United States would take military action to remove him and disarm the country of its weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

IRAQ: U.S. Takes Tentative Steps to Transform Region

By Jim Lobe
With virtually all of Iraq now under U.S. military control, the administration of President George W. Bush is contemplating its next steps both within the country and in the region as a whole.

POLITICS-U.S.: Uncertainties Surround Talks with North Korea

By Jim Lobe
While heartened by Thursday's announcement of talks between North Korea, the United States and China in Beijing next week, specialists here are worried that Washington may be unwilling to make concessions necessary to sustain a longer negotiation process that would defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

IRAQ-U.S.: Syria in the Crosshairs of Familiar Group of Hawks

By Jim Lobe
Many of the same people who led the campaign for war against Iraq signed a report released three years ago that called for using military force to disarm Syria of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and to end its military presence in Lebanon.

POLITICS-U.S.: Cuban Crackdown Weakens Anti-Embargo Case

By Jim Lobe
Cuba's ongoing crackdown against leading dissidents has badly set back hopes among U.S. policy critics here that Congress would poke new holes in the 42-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Havana.

POLITICS-U.S.: Road Map Or Road to Damascus?

By Jim Lobe
Will it be the ''Road Map'' for Israeli-Palestinian peace or the road to Damascus that will next grab the attention of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush in the wake of its convincing conquest of Iraq?

U.S.-IRAQ: What Next?

By Jim Lobe
Even as U.S. troops helped bring down Baghdad's most imposing statues of President Saddam Hussein, the big question here on Wednesday was, 'What now?', not just for Iraq and the Mideast in general, but also for the future of international relations.

POLITICS-U.S.-IRAQ: What Next?

By Jim Lobe
Even as U.S. troops helped bring down Baghdad's most imposing statues of President Saddam Hussein, the big question here on Wednesday was, 'What now?', not just for Iraq and the Mideast in general, but also for the future of international relations.
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