Obama WH: Pro-Sanctions Senators Should Admit They Want War With Iran
As Jason Ditz highlights in the news section today, congressional support for heaping additional sanctions on Iran, even as the interim deal plays out ahead of further negotiations on a final deal, is picking up in the Senate. Up to 58 senators have committed to...
Privatizing Diplomacy – Dennis Rodman Style
The verdict is in. All civilized people must hate Dennis Rodman. Politicians from John McCain to John Kerry, and pundits from Bill O’Reilly to Chris Matthews are outraged that any American, let alone the eccentric Rodman, would travel to the land of the third member...
Robert Gates: US Tried Oust Karzai in 2009 Elections
Most people are still reeling from the personal jabs former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates takes at President Obama and his closest advisers in his forthcoming memoir. But beyond the political barbs is actual news. Like, for example, the fact that the U.S. tried to...
A Closer Look at Iraq’s Violence
The overly simplistic narrative the media has decided upon to describe the recent instability in Iraq is that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists took over Fallujah, and the question now is how does the U.S. and Iraqi government remedy the situation and stave of a potential...
The Bipartisan Effort to Deprive the NSA of Water and Electricity
The California state senate is considering what is perhaps the coolest piece of legislation in modern America. The bill, introduced by Democrat Ted Lieu and Republican Joel Anderson, would ban all of California from providing "material support" — access to water and...
Starving Refugees: How We Disowned Palestinians in Syria
A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are paying a heavy price for Syria’s cruelest war. They are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are...
John Glaser, Nick Hankoff on CrossTalk Discussing Entangling Alliances
The Low Bar for US Intervention: Don’t Do ‘Post-Colonialism’ in South Sudan
The list of civil wars, government crackdowns, and pesky militant safe-havens that interventionists demand the United States meddle in seems endless. There is no corner of the Earth that doesn't call for some measure of U.S. intervention, apparently. The latest call...
Former Defense Sec Bob Gates: Obama WH Most Centralized Since Nixon & Kissinger
DC wonks are giddy at the political drama sure to unfold with Bob Woodward's review in the Washington Post of Robert Gates's new memoir to be published this month. The controversy is predictably focused on a few quotes in which Gates describes Obama as petty and...
