Much of the hawkish commentary on Syria has centered around this notion that inaction led the al-Qaeda elements in the rebel opposition to metastasize. If only we had intervened early on, before the deepening of the civil war and all the blood-letting, we could have...
We know a lot about the crimes committed by the U.S. government during the Cold War, but there remain areas of Cold War foreign policy almost completely hidden from the public. One of those dark areas is the U.S. role in the overthrow of a democratically elected...
In negotiations with Israel and the U.S., the Palestinians threw down their wildcard this week. When the U.S. and Israel had essentially agreed upon an interim deal that was ludicrously one-sided in favor of Israel, the Palestinians announced they were moving ahead...
Mother Jones has published another secretly recorded speech at a private Republican event. Rather than Mitt Romney's embarrassing "47 percent" line, this one has former Vice President Dick Cheney lamenting the U.S.'s lack of control over the Middle East, NSA hate, and...
According to reports in the Israeli paper Haaretz, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is close to getting Israel and the Palestinians to agree on an interim deal. As reported by Barak Ravid, and translated into English from Hebrew by Ira Glunts, the five articles of...
Apparently, segments of the GOP political apparatus are trying to put the kibosh on Sen. Rand Paul's presidential run before it is even officially announced. Paul's 2016 Republican contenders and their wealthy backers hate his foreign policy so much that they are...
Back in December, I argued in the Huffington Post that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is really not about "free trade," but about serving the strategic interests of Washington. Negotiations are still ongoing (mostly in secret, somewhat notably) and many of the...
Via Charles Davis, the Washington Post reports on comments made by President Obama today: Speaking in Brussels, Obama dismissed suggestions by Russia and its supporters that the Iraq war undercuts the United States' credibility in criticizing Russia's incursion into...
Despite Justin's attempts to place me in the the same camp as the neocons, Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute has written a balanced and principled piece on this controversy. Here's an excerpt: So what should we think? We should probably take a middle ground...
In opposing and challenging U.S. foreign policy, there is a tendency among some in the libertarian movement to excuse the crimes and misdeeds of foreign regimes that Washington sees as antagonistic. Fundamentally, I believe this represents a grave bias that has no...
