Over 100 San Francisco antiwar activists protested against the Iran blockade bill, HCR 362, at Nancy Pelosi’s house on Saturday. The protest was emotional, and three people were arrested for trespassing. This coverage was the lead story on KRON Channel 4′s evening news. The main speaker is Marc Joffe, a local libertarian supporter of Antiwar.com. [...]
I’m not a big fan of The New Republic, but there are two articles in the July 30 edition that are well worth a read. The first essay is by the always-insightful John Judis, who two years ago wrote the best account to date of McCain’s evolution from realist to neo-conservative in the late 1990s. [...]
Gary Sick, an acute observer of U.S.-Iranian relations for more than three decades who served on the National Security Council staff under president Ford, Carter and Reagan and now teaches at Columbia University, wrote a brief comment today on the latest developments in U.S. Iran policy and what it says about the balance of power [...]
Ray’s Stray Thoughts Candidates Speak: Un-Reality About Iraq (Updated) You say you expected more rhetoric than reality from Senators Obama and McCain yesterday in their speeches on Iraq and Afghanistan? Well, that’s certainly what you got. What I find nonetheless amazing is how they, and the pundits, have taken such little notice of the dramatic [...]
Earlier today President Bush said “people should conserve and be wise about how they use gas and energy.” This is ironic in part because the US military is a large player in the oil economy. If the US military was a country it would be the worlds 38th largest consumer of oil. Yet despite its [...]
Don’t be surprised if Sen. John McCain “refines†his own Iraq plans very soon, just as his campaign has accused Barack Obama of doing. In an article in Monday’s USA Today, ret. Army Gen. Jack Keane, a key architect and supporter of the “Surgeâ€, who is close to both Gen. David Petraeus and the neo-conservatives [...]
