As talks between Iran the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) conclude, all parties should be commended for returning to the negotiating table. Obama should be commended for having turned diplomacy into a process rather than...
RT: Lawmakers in New York State are proposing new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet. Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte says that...
A lot of people are puzzling over the Obama Adminstration's stance on the P5+1 talks going on in Baghdad right now. In particular, the administration has said that even if a deal is reached with Iran at the summit, they aren't going to remove any sanctions from them...
From the indispensable Just Foreign Policy: Help Rand Paul Call the Question on War with Iran Sen. Rand Paul introducing his amendment to S. 2101. Before we have any military conflict with Iran, the Senate and the House should have at least one debate and vote on it....
Peter Lavelle hosts our DC editor John Glaser along with Eugeniusz Smolar and Jeremy Corbyn on the future of NATO.
Under statutory mandates, Congress is required to impose automatic budget cuts if an agreement on "debt reduction" is not reached. It is already clear Congress is ignoring its own self-imposed requirements, which Americans overwhelmingly support. As I recently wrote:...
In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A democratically elected congressman of the United States...
David Rothkopf on "Obama's Debacle" in Afghanistan: ...The president opposed his own policy of sending in more troops to stabilize Afghanistan from the moment he approved it after months and months of messy internal wrangling. So why did he do it? The answer is that...
Today, on the morning of the pre-trial hearing of the "NATO 3," -- who are being charged with "conspiracy to commit terrorism," "terrorism" and "possession of incendiary devices"-- another explosive (excuse the pun) revelation has been made by Occupy Chicago. In an...
(Reposted from The American Conservative) For years, Pentagon officials have insisted that the open-air burn pits incinerating tons of garbage and other waste on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan could not be causing long-term health problems for our troops. But an...
