John R. Bolton: External Links: Articles & Commentary

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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