U.S. Army Ends a Costly Mistake
Image: U.S. Army File Photo In a strange experiment, a U.S. Army program embedded social scientists with armed military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning in 2007. The program finally just...
View ArticleIran Deal Shifts U.S. Relationship to the World
Photo: "Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program - the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Other Officials of the P5+1 and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran and EU in Lausanne" by United States...
View ArticleWhat Obama Needs to Do for Africa
President Obama’s recent Africa tour could be of great significance.
View ArticleUnfinished business between Cuba and the United States
A memorial erected in recognition of the 73 passengers and 5 crew killed in the crash of Cubana Flight 455 in October, 6. 1976. Photo by BCF. Even with the resumption of diplomatic relations between...
View ArticleA Cold War Monument to a Hot War That Wasn’t
During a recent vacation trip to the South Dakota Badlands, my family and I made a short detour to a defunct nuclear missile silo. The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is managed by the...
View ArticleObama’s Meeting with Saudi King Undermines Iran Deal
President Obama recently welcomed into the White House one of the most problematic leaders on the planet.
View ArticleJuan Cole on the Middle East
Author Juan Cole offers his take on the Middle East, and what that means for progressives.
View ArticleThe Debate We Had, the Debate We Need
"I was troubled by Clinton's hollow responses and the fact that they went unchallenged by the mainstream media."
View ArticleHot Spikes Through the Forehead
If you blinked, you may have missed the Drone Papers report that was just released. I’m sure this won’t be the last we hear of the investigative report by the crew over at The Intercept and their...
View ArticleObama's Escalation in Syria
On at least sixteen previous occasions, President Obama assured the American people that there would be “no boots on the ground.”
View ArticleObama Needs to Show Netanyahu Some Tough Love
There is one simple thing that Obama could do.
View ArticleKeep Calm and Panic On
The terrible attacks in Paris have been met with widespread condemnation and horror, but they’ve also been met with overreaction and panic.
View ArticleJerusalem Palestinian Rights Activist Speaks Up for the Children
"Wouldn’t the billions being given to Israel be better spent at home in their own country?”
View ArticleBreaking Bread in Kabul
I wondered how Ellis’s guidelines for conflict resolution could be useful to people in the United States.
View ArticleProgressive Jews Push Back on The Status Quo with Israel
“In their support they give our current government complete freedom to do whatever it wants...”
View ArticleTurkey’s Creeping Authoritarianism: Is the Resistance Enough?
Ever more autocratic, Erdoğan remains genuinely popular.
View ArticleTakin' It to the Streets—Brazilians Protest President’s Ouster
The successor government has already made huge mistakes.
View ArticleDefending Israel’s Attacks on Civilians—A Harbinger for Clinton’s Presidency?
What kind of rules of engagement would she support for U.S. forces in the “War on Terror?”
View ArticlePick Your Poison: Clinton Vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
Have we already begun to enlist the 49 dead in Orlando into the project of American empire?
View ArticleWhy go to Russia? This is what Citizen-to-citizen Diplomacy Looks Like.
Ordinary people everywhere should demand that international disputes be resolved by non-military means.
View ArticleBrexit Stirs up European Right
Could the British vote mean the end of the world order as we know it?
View ArticleGlobal Trade: What's a Good Progressive to Do?
"It’s not about trade or not trade, it’s about who writes the rules and who benefits."
View ArticleDon't Move! U.S. Aggression a Tragedy at Home and Abroad.
When the United States acts as “global policeman,” we do to other nations what those two officers did to Alton Sterling.
View ArticleWe Know They Lied about Iraq’s WMDs, but It Gets Worse
Even if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the war would still have been wrong.
View ArticleA New Kind of Test after Another Tragedy in France
The wave of terrorism in France risks increasing the clout of the extreme right, but many vow not to give in.
View Article"Most Progressive Dem Platform in History" Hawkish on Foreign Policy
Is this a taste of a Clinton presidency?
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