Jim Lobe

Seattle

Contributing Editor at Responsible Statecraft

Personal tweets from Jim Lobe, Contributing Editor @RStatecraft, director @LobeLog.com (2007-19), DC bureau chief, Inter Press Service (1980-85, 1989-2016).

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Americans strongly support basics but are split on other foreign aid

1 month ago | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

An overwhelming majority of voting-age Americans support providing humanitarian and food aid to developing countries, but they are more divided along partisan lines on other forms of U.S. assistance to nations of the Global South, according to new poll results released by the Pew Research Center.
Global powers boost military budgets

2 months ago | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

2024 marked biggest increase in global military spending since Cold War’s end. Spurred by ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East, global military spending rose nearly 10 percent in 2024, the biggest annual increase since at least the end of the Cold War more than 30 years ago, according to the latest in the annual series of reports on world military spending by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI.
Poll: Americans underwhelmed by Trump foreign policy

2 months ago | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

Some of President Donald Trump’s key foreign policy initiatives have not been gaining traction with most Americans, according to the results of a new survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
16 yrs ago, Chas Freeman was smeared out of a job at DNI, too

Mar 17, 2025 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

Almost exactly 16 years after the Israel lobby won a bitter high-profile battle against a key appointment by the then-director of national intelligence, it seems to have one won another, virtually without firing a shot.
Poll: Europeans see US as 'necessary partner' not 'ally'

Feb 13, 2025 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

Europeans increasingly see the United States as a “necessary partner” rather than an “ally,” according to a new poll of 14 European countries released Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations. The survey of more than 18,000 adults across the continent was conducted in the weeks following the U.S. presidential elections on Nov. 5, in which Donald Trump defeated his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.
New neocon manifesto: Keep US troops in the Middle East

Jan 28, 2025 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

A leading neoconservative for most of the last half century has released a comprehensive series of recommendations on Middle East policy for the new Trump administration nearly all of which are ideas that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party would happily embrace.
42 years ago today: The Sabra & Shatila massacre

Sep 17, 2024 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

After nearly a year of U.S. presidential frustration with Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza, it seems appropriate to recall another time when Israel defied Washington in another bloody conflict in which Palestinians were the principal victims. This week marks the 42nd anniversary of the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut carried out by the Israel-backed Christian Phalangist militia.
Poll: Middle income Global South really likes China

Jul 9, 2024 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

Middle-income countries of the Global South hold significantly more favorable views of China and its influence than those held by high-income countries of North America, Europe, and Northeast Asia, according to newly released findings of a poll of 34 countries released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
That stinks: Global opinion of US goes down the toilet | Responsible Statecraft

Jun 10, 2024 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

Washington’s Gaza policy is the likely culprit
US public increasingly rate Russia, China containment, Mideast peace as top priorities

Apr 24, 2024 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Jim Lobe

Americans give higher priority to countering the power and influence of Russia and China and finding a solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians than they did six years ago, according to a new survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.