Both Nation reporter Robert Dreyfuss and Harvard professor Stephen Walt point today to a speech given by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which he explains why America's rhetoric about returning to negotiations are perceived as dishonest. Do read both...
As has been the case from the beginning, options for intervention in Syria go from bad to worse and the limited meddling by countries on either side is simply prolonging the conflict. Dr. Florence Gaub, a researcher at the NATO Defense College, writes at the Carnegie...
Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat was stopped at LAX on Wednesday for...uh, being Palestinian, it seems? The TSA took temporary custody of him and his family in an isolated room and refused to let him use his cellphone. They wouldn't believe he was...
A new Gallup poll found that 99% of Americans see Iran's nuclear program as a threat to the US national security. They believe Iran's imaginary weapons program is more of a threat than North Korea's actual nuclear weapons. [I wrote about the wild success of Iran war...
Senator Lindsey Graham, reigning ultra-nationalist of the Republican Party, is really offended by secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel's supposedly shocking positions on Israel. So, he has sent a letter asking Hagel to clarify his views. As The Weekly Standard...
Congressman Mike Coffman, Republican from Colorado, has made public a broad plan for where exactly to make the approximately $500 billion in cuts mandated by the sequestration deal. You know, the cuts that almost every notable official in the White House, Pentagon,...
One of the things itching the people who demand more transparency and accountability in Obama's drone war is that the secrecy of the program means that the government doesn't publicly release casualty estimates. This has led a number of journalistic and think-tank...
This week Marine Corps General John Allen joined a long and lamentable list of American leaders who have succumbed to the ancient affliction that conventional rhetoric has deemed the "graveyard of empires." He is not the first, but given that the United States seems...
In recent weeks, conservative media and politicians have been up in arms over a speech Hagel allegedly gave to the group "Friends of Hamas." Hagel is paling around with terrorists! they cried. But according to Dan Friedman, a reporter with the New York Daily News, the...
A new report from the Center for a New American Security says that "the conventional wisdom" about how a nuclear Iran would spark a dangerous nuclear arms race in the Middle East "is probably wrong." "It is widely assumed that Saudi Arabia would respond to Iran’s...
