John R. Bolton: External Links: Articles & Commentary

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Articles & Commentary

1999

• James P. Lucier, "Just What Is a War Criminal?", Insight on the News, News World Communications, August 02, 1999.
• Alan Bock, "Fear and Trembling in the Imperial Camp?," AntiWar.com, December 23, 1999.

2001

• Articles on the Controversial Nomination of John Bolton to Under-Secretary of State, 2001.
• Miguel A. Faria Jr., "Cuba and the Council on Foreign Relations," NewsMax, February 15, 2001.
• Transcript: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Nomination of John Robert Bolton to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; chaired by Senator Jesse Helms, (R-NC), March 29, 2001.
• Jane Perlez, "Control Nominee Defends Shifting View", New York Times, March 30, 2001.
• John Donnelly, "Senators Gril Bush's pick for Arms control post", Boston Globe, March 30, 2001.
• "Oppose John Bolton's Nomination as State Department's Arms Control Leader!," Council for a Livable World, April 11, 2001.
• Carolyn Skorneck, "Senate confirms Bolton for top State Department job," AP, May 8, 2001.
• Charles Snyder, "US okays Taiwan backer for post," Taipei Times, May 10, 2001.
• "A CFR Member Behind Every Bush," The New American, August 13, 2001.

2002

• Interview: "A New Strategic Framework? Detailing the Bush Approach to Nuclear Security," Arms Control Association, February 11, [2002].
• David Corn, "Taiwangate: A Fallout-Free Scandal," The Nation, April 10, 2002.
• "US expands 'axis of evil'," BBC, May 6, 2002: "The United States has added Cuba, Libya and Syria to the nations it claims are deliberately seeking to obtain chemical or biological weapons. ... In a speech entitled 'Beyond the Axis of Evil', US Under Secretary of State, John Bolton said that the three nations could be grouped with other so-called 'rogue states' - Iraq, Iran and North Korea - in actively attempting to develop weapons of mass destruction. ... He also warned that the US would take action."
• Julian Borger, "War on terror may extend to Cuba," Guardian/UK, May 7, 2002.
• Ian Williams, "Bush's hatchet man in the State Department," Salon, May 10, 2002: "While Colin Powell tries to present a kinder, gentler America to the world, his hard-line underling John Bolton is pushing an America-über-alles doctrine -- and winning."
• Ian Williams, "Beware of Bolton," AlterNet, May 30, 2002: "Meet Jesse Helms' political heir: John Bolton, Undersecretary of State and right-wing warrior extraordinaire."
• Ian Traynor, "Kremlin Gives Short Shrift to US Hawk Over Iraq," Guardian/UK, September 12, 2002.
• John Buell, "Onward Christian Soldiers: The March to War," Common Dreams, October 10, 2002.

2003

• Council on Hemispheric Affairs, "Bolton Goes East – The Wrong Man For Korea," Scoop (NZ), January 23, 2003.
• Ian Williams, "John Bolton in Jerusalem. The New Age of Disarmament Wars," CounterPunch, February 22, 2003.
• lakshmi, "Bolton Says War is Inevitable," AlterNet, February 25, 2003.
• Victor L. Simpson, "U.S. Official: Iraq a Lesson for Others," AP, April 9, 2003.
• Michael Lind, "How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington – and Launched a War," AntiWar.com, April 10, 2003.
• "ACT Interviews Undersecretary Bolton on North Korea," Arms Control Association, April 15, 2003.
• "John Bolton Warns Syria, Libya, Cuba on Weapons of Mass Destruction," The Tip, April 23, 2003.
• Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, "CIA: Assessment of Syria's WMD Exaggerated," Knight Ridder Newspapers, July 16, 2003.
• Nicholas Thompson, "John Bolton vs. the world. His job is to keep a hawk eye on dovish Colin Powell. And he's helped turn Bush foreign policy into an ideological hammer," Salon, July 16, 2003.
• Jim Lobe, "North Korea Won't Recognize State Dep't. Ideologue," Inter Press Service, August 4, 2003.
• Joseph Coleman, "Bush official on Iraq war justification: WMD 'Isn't really the issue'," The Unelected, September 5, 2003.
• Jack Shafer, Leak of the Week: "The Bolton Testimony. Judith Miller. Again," Slate, September 16, 2003.
• Richard H. Curtiss, "You Don't Have to be Jewish to Be a Neo-con: John Bolton and James Woolsey," Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2003.
• Sonni Efron, "Threats Overstated by Bush Official, Critics Contend," Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2003: "Undersecretary Bolton bluntly rejects claims he's inflating regimes' weapons capabilities."
• David Corn, "A No-Compassion Conservative?", The Nation, November 11, 2003.
• Barbara Slavin and Bill Nichols, "Bolton a 'guided missile'," USAToday, December 1, 2003.

2004

• Erika Tepler, "U.S.-Led Counter-Proliferation Effort Targets Illicit Weapons Traffic. 16 Nation PSI Initiative Eliminates 'Gray Area' of International Transportation," JINSA Online, March 4, 2004.
• Kurt Nimmo, "John Bolton, Miscreant and Threat to World Peace," KurtNimmo.com, April 3, 2004.
• Edith M. Lederer, "U.S. Sees Nuclear Network Threat," Washington Times, April 28, 2004.
• "Iran: Report Shows No Nukes," CBS/AP, June 2, 2004.
• Jerry M. Landay, "Simon Said. The Neocon Hothouse that William Simon Built,", Media Transparency, June 23, 2004.
• Sharon Behn, "'Testing time' seen for Tehran," Washington Times, June 25, 2004.
• "Bolton's War," Tom Paine, December 14, 2004.
• John F. McManus, "The Insiders and the Iraq War," Current Concerns, December 27, 2004.

2005

• Tom Barry, Bolton’s Baggage, International Relations Center, March 2005.

This IRC Special Report is the most comprehensive look at the legal sleaze, foreign ties, radical ideology, and the overseas filibustering of John R. Bolton, UN Ambassador Designate--the man who Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says "gets things done" and North Korea calls "human scum."

• Brooke, "John Bolton: Jesse Helms Protégé," Think Progress, March 7, 2005.
• Brooke Lierman, "Who Is John Bolton?," Center for American Progress, March 7, 2005.
• Rush Limbaugh, "Bolton Brings Back Kirkpatrick Memories," RushLimbaugh.com, March 8, 2005.
• "The Hon. John Bolton," JINSA Online, March 8, 2005: "Rarely do the words 'United Nations' and 'fun' occur for us in the same sentence; nor the words 'United Nations' and 'effective progress.' However, the nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the UN makes us hopeful for the first time in a long time that the institution in which so many hopes have been so wrongly vested for so many years might be better vested now."
• Editorial: "The World According to Bolton," New York Times, March 9, 2005.
• Molly Ivins, "Move Up the Date For Armageddon," AlterNet, March 10, 2005.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "The Enemy Within," Guardian/UK, March 10, 2005.
• Michael Tomasky, "The Domestic Bolton. Opposition to the UN nominee has centered on his international record. But it’s his history as a party hack that’s the real story," American Prospect Online, March 21, 2005.
• Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold, "Bolton's chief of staff gave information on outed agent to Libby, lawyers involved in leak case say," The Raw Story, November 2, 2005. re Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove; Marc Grossman; and Frederick Fleitz, John R. Bolton's chief of staff

2006

• Al Kamen, "What's Next for Bolton -- The Peace Prize?", Washington Post, February 13, 2006, page A19.
• Michael Carmichael, "Taunted and Jeered: Bolton Bolts from Oxford Protests," CounterPunch, June 14, 2006.
• "Bolton’s Bubble: U.N. Ambassador Skips All Security Council Foreign Travel," Think Progress, July 26, 2006.
• Peter Baker and Dafna Linzer, "White House Seeks a Way to Keep Bolton at the U.N.," Washington Post, September 14, 2006.
• Ian Williams, "John Bolton's Greatest Hits," The Nation, December 4, 2006.

SourceWatch Resources

• John R. Bolton: External Links: Speeches & Commentary
• John R. Bolton: External Links: Nomination to UN