In response to the Obama administration's "pause" in U.S. military aid to Pakistan, China has slipped in to fill the gap. This is just the latest development in the passive aggressive power war between the U.S. and China; any new regional allies for China represents a...
Ideally, all members of the France-based Flytilla would have been allowed entry into Israel and Palestine. Because of Israel's policy of forbidding vocal and prominent opponents of Zionism and the Israeli state, such as Noam Chomsky and Norman Finklestein, most of the...
Yesterday the House spent an hour "debating" a resolution condemning efforts to gain support for a Palestinian state via the UN General Assembly, and demanding that the Palestinians negotiate on Israel's terms. (It is worth noting that UN recognition of Israel came as...
In a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorim and Intelligence yesterday, Robert F. Noriega, former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs and a former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States and now current Visiting...
The Lee/Woolsey/Nadler amendment to limit funding for the war in Afghanistan and the rapid, safe withdrawal of all US troops failed 97 to 322. Of the 97 who voted for the amendment, 10 were Republicans. If you wish to ask President Obama to reconsider this, please...
After the derailment of the commemorative Flotilla, French activists are taking to the skies in order to shed light on the suffering of Palestinians. Some members of the "Welcome to Palestine" movement are already facing difficulties in obtaining entry to the state of...
An excellent speech today by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) opposing US intervention in Libya and on war powers in general:
Via Stephen Walt, Akiva Eldar's piece in Haaretz on long-time Middle East adviser Dennis Ross lays out pretty forcefully the futility of the "peace process" as directed by U.S.-Israel. Futile for the prospects of a Palestinian state, that is. And now Dennis Ross is...
The US Congress, in its wisdom, seems to believe that democracy means their power to control the affairs of every other nation. Take Belarus. Yesterday the US House debated the renewal of the "Belarus Democracy Act." Ron Paul spoke to explain what the act really...
Somehow America's most prominent chest-beating war-hawks feel legitimate in fear-mongering about Gaddafi's most recent charades, real or percieved, in a desperate attempt to retroactively justify U.S.-NATO intervention. First, as Dan Larison reported upon, we have...
