Obama, Kissinger, Wilson, Roosevelt and Moniz. Quick. What do Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger and Egar Moniz have in common? All won the Nobel Prize, the first four for “peace†either as sitting presidents, or in Kissinger’s...
Chicago and Pakistan
Appropriately, Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar "Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009" and the International Olympic Committee made its much anticipated decision just as the baseball season drew to a close.Yep, the Windy City's National League franchise...
Students to Protest Afghan War on 25 Campuses (Oct. 7)
From the Students for a Democratic Society Antiwar Working Group: Demonstrations mark 8th anniversary of Afghan War–demand immediate U.S./NATO withdrawal Students on 25 campuses across the United States will protest eight long years of war against and occupation of...
Afghan 24-Karat BS
The Washington Post article on this weekend's attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy," said the base's company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. "There are literally...
How idiots win hearts and minds – – –
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
On Security, Obama’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Takes Shape
In a vote of 258-163, the House of Representatives passed a broad package of measures entitled H.R. 2892 "Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes." The "other purposes" really...
Arianna Huffington: Iran a Major Threat – Greenwald Disagrees
Arianna Huffington is leading the neo-liberals in their pile-on against Iran. Here she, and WAPO's Jonathan Capehart, go up against Glenn Greenwald:
Poverty and Polarization of Media Foreign-Policy Debate
A very good insight of what could be called the “Beltway Bubble†on foreign-policy thinking can be gained by a study of the September 19 National Journal’s “Insiders Poll†in which 115 Democratic and 116 Republican “insiders†ranked prominent columnists,...
Ron Paul on the Anti-Iran Hysteria
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) explains:
GE On the Anti-Iran Bandwagon
In another ominous sign in the run-up to war with Iran, General Electric announced earlier this month that it was jumping on the bandwagon of hawkish non-profit "American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc." (ACANI) signing a pledge to never conduct business in the...


