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...
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...
John Glaser’s blog post on Crimea is typically American – i.e. it is bathed in unconscious albeit ferocious nationalism. He starts out by accusing me of excusing “the crimes and misdeeds of foreign regimes that Washington sees as antagonistic.” The crimes of foreign...
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...
