How quickly did the neocons stick the shiv in their candidate's back? Minutes after Fox News called the election for Obama, they hauled out Charles Krauthammer, who opined that Romney "is a northeastern liberal" -- a fact he had withheld from Fox News viewers until...
Starve the Beast
Grover Norquist in Foreign Affairs railing against the suggestion that taxes be raised: Despite these strict [constitutional] limits, the U.S. federal government has grown enormously in size, cost, and power over the last two centuries, mostly as a result of the...
Why ‘National Security Threats’ Threaten the Government and Not You
The election is today. Invariably thrown around at these times are platitudes about our great nation and the people's decision giving divine mandate to the victor. In the fog of this rhetoric it's difficult to remember that the election is really about ushering in...
A Catalogue of Failures in Syria Interventions
Joshua Landis - who was consistently against US intervention in Syria before he was for sending in heavy weapons to rebels - writes that the Obama administration's latest effort to set up a new council of Syrian opposition leaders to organize the country towards...
How the US Turns Peaceful Exchange With China into a Casus Belli
“Don’t treat China as an enemy. Otherwise you end up with an enemy in China.” Those are the words of former Chinese diplomat Jia Xiudong. And they reflect the thinking in the Chinese government, as best we can tell. They don't appreciate Obama's "pivot" to Asia, a...
John Glaser on RT’s CrossTalk
DC Editor John Glaser appeared on RT's CrossTalk with Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Charles A. Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Consulate Security Failures as Excuse for Military Escalation
Bringing the September 11 attack on the Benghazi Consulate finally full circle today, a new analysis piece is reporting that the reason the Pentagon didn't respond to a multi-hour attack in a Libyan city is that, shockingly, the US doesn't have a massive military...
New Documentary: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets
THE ACTIVISTS: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets from Melofilms on Vimeo. Created by Melody Weinstein, Michael T. Heaney, and Marco Roldán, The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets describes, "...activism in the anti-war movement in the United...
At Israel’s West Bank Barrier, All Mammals Are Not Created Equal
Faced with growing environmental concerns, the Israeli government is looking for ways to allow certain mammals to pass through the West Bank barrier unencumbered. Several groups were citing families of animals, including foxes, separated by the massive wall. "Many...
Drones, My Lai, and Prosecuting the Powerful
In April of this year, President Obama approved the CIA's request to begin launching targeted assassinations in Yemen through drone strikes even when the identities of those being targeted is not known. The US government calls these "signature strikes," and they are...


