In Washington, there is a lot of opposition to the ongoing diplomatic negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. For the most part, the reasons for their opposition are unconvincing reiterations of trite political slogans. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), for...
If you want to get an idea of how tight a hold defense corporations have over the government, take a look at this Seattle Times scoop (update: originally reported at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch). It reports on a secret document drawn up by Boeing and sent to 15 state...
Foreign Policy reports that Japan is stiffening the state's ability to classify information and punish whistleblowers and is even rolling back their pacifist constitution to get "in line with U.S. preferences." The new law, which passed Japan's upper house Friday,...
Video streaming by Ustream
Today you can watch much of the world praise the life and mourn the death of former South African President anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. Scores of U.S. leaders and political pundits with platforms to reach millions of Americans are expressing admiration for...
As the U.S. wrestles with the Karzai government to finalize a security agreement that would govern thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another decade, virtually everyone across every spectrum agrees that pulling out completely - the so-called 'zero option' -...
China's recent attempt to establish an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over disputed territory in the East China Sea was met with shock and horror from the U.S. and its Asian allies. But the shock and horror, as always with American foreign policy, is cynically...
The Obama administration's fumbling policy on Syria turned out better than it might have this past fall when unprecedented public and international opposition to a punitive U.S. strike against the Assad regime staved off another reckless U.S. war in the Middle East....
For almost 50-years, the Pew Research Center has been polling on the question of whether Americans think the U.S. "should mind its own business internationally," but only now, for the very first time, have a majority of Americans answered in the affirmative. I'm often...
