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...
Gross. That's really the only word that comes to mind after reading Dana Milbank's account today of the recent GOP pilgrimage to Sin City to kiss the ring of Sheldon Adelson, the 9th richest man in the world, and quite possibly the most ideologically driven of them...
This is the answer to the question posed in the title: "My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more...
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...
I love a good argument too, but I think the Crimea situation is less about race, nationalism and the East-West divide than it is economics. Crimea is dirt poor, even by Ukranian standards, and was intensely dependent on government aid. The regime change brought about...
