Here is a tweet from Foreign Policy's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/foreignpolicy/status/461272472734945280 If you have to worry that your proxy militias will turn your own weapons against you, maybe it's not such a good idea to give them weapons in the first...
Paul Pillar, a 28-year CIA veteran and now senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, writes in The National Interest about how ridiculous and self-serving is the reaction of Israel (and the U.S.) to the Fatah's announcement of political...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's admired front-runner for the 2016 presidential elections, made headlines last week when she spoke out against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. At an event at the University of Connecticut she hit him...
According to a report at Foreign Policy, a new piece of legislation due for a vote on Wednesday of this week would force Voice of America, the federally funded news media organization, to toe the U.S. line even more closely and become an explicit propaganda tool of...
The Supreme Court declined to hear the case that a group of activists, journalists, and academics including Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, and Daniel Ellsberg brought against the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA. This is a huge gift to the Obama...
Here is an excerpt from President Obama's joint press conference today with Philippine President Benigno Acquino: Typically, criticism of our foreign policy has been directed at the failure to use military force. And the question I think I would have is, why is it...
Washington has an advanced relationship with Kuwait, the small Persian Gulf country out of which the U.S. pushed invading Iraqi forces in the 1991 Gulf War. U.S. troops are stationed in Kuwait on a more or less permanent basis, Kuwait receives considerable military...
In the aftermath of reports claiming John Kerry said Israel will become an apartheid state without a two-state solution, the Secretary of State is being portrayed as far outside the mainstream and his language is being condemned as erroneous in the extreme. To...
The key to Rand Paul's tenure as a Senator and to his latent 2016 presidential campaign has been to maintain the libertarian base that helped propel his father's presidential bids while remaining somewhat within the mainstream Republican Party. That can be a difficult...
