Obama’s Choice on Iran Obama’s Choice on Iran
Hawks in Congress want to pile on more sanctions, a strategy that is stupid and counterproductive.
Jul 24, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Congress Moves Toward Meaningful Reform of Domestic Surveillance Congress Moves Toward Meaningful Reform of Domestic Surveillance
Is Congress moving towards putting a real check on the executive branch’s spying power?
Jul 23, 2013 / George Zornick
Obama: Don’t Cancel the Moscow Trip Obama: Don’t Cancel the Moscow Trip
The president can’t just take his nuclear football and go home.
Jul 19, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Letter to Edward Snowden A Letter to Edward Snowden
Prometheus among the cannibals.
Jul 18, 2013 / Rebecca Solnit
Samantha Power’s Testimony Confirms Foreign Policy Orthodoxy Samantha Power’s Testimony Confirms Foreign Policy Orthodoxy
The nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations said Security Council authorization should not be necessary for military action.
Jul 17, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
The MSM and the Snowden Affair: Where True Loyalty Lies The MSM and the Snowden Affair: Where True Loyalty Lies
Why, to Beltway reporters, Glenn Greenwald is no Bob Woodward.
Jul 17, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
How to Be a Rogue Superpower How to Be a Rogue Superpower
A manual for the twenty-first century.
Jul 16, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
Surveillance Blowback Surveillance Blowback
The making of the US surveillance state, 1898–2020.
Jul 16, 2013 / Alfred W. McCoy
Iran, Israel and Palestine—Does Kerry Have A Plan? An Idea? Anything? Iran, Israel and Palestine—Does Kerry Have A Plan? An Idea? Anything?
He’s back for the sixth time in six months.
Jul 15, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Secretary Kerry’s Mission Impossible in Israel-Palestine Secretary Kerry’s Mission Impossible in Israel-Palestine
Washington’s assurances that it will defend Israel no matter what it does, however objectionable, kill any hope of a two-state solution to the conflict.
Jul 11, 2013 / Henry Siegman