The US Intelligence Community’s New Year Wish The US Intelligence Community’s New Year Wish
The National Intelligence Community’s Global Trends report reveals a future of continued fearmongering and American exceptionalism.
Jan 3, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
Tough Questions for John Kerry Tough Questions for John Kerry
Here are just a few things the Foreign Relations Committee should be asking Obama’s nominee for secretary of state.
Jan 2, 2013 / The Editors
Are the US and Israel Heading For a Showdown? Are the US and Israel Heading For a Showdown?
At long last, this may be the year Washington puts the brakes on Israeli settlement expansion into Palestinian lands.
Dec 20, 2012 / Ira Chernus
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Focus the Secretary of State Debate on Policy, Not Politics Katrina vanden Heuvel: Focus the Secretary of State Debate on Policy, Not Politics
Partisan predictions for the presiden’s nominee have drowned out the real conversation on Obama’s foreign policy priorities.
Dec 18, 2012 / Press Room
Questions for John Kerry, President Obama’s New Pick for Secretary of State Questions for John Kerry, President Obama’s New Pick for Secretary of State
The nomination of a secretary of state gives the Senate the opportunity to probe the administration’s foreign policy priorities.
Dec 18, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Congress’s Magnitsky Bill a New Blacklist? Is Congress’s Magnitsky Bill a New Blacklist?
The anti-Russia bill violates the rule of law, contradicts American values and undermines US national security.
Dec 14, 2012 / Edward Lozansky, Vladimir Sobell, and Stephen F. Cohen
On the Front Lines of a New Pacific War On the Front Lines of a New Pacific War
The US military’s aggressive Asia-Pacific strategy is escalating tensions with China and prompting local resistance throughout the region.
Dec 14, 2012 / Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Raises Dark Memories ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Raises Dark Memories
What's really bothering us is not whether torture works but that Americans are torturers.
Dec 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean
Crisis in Syria: Obama vs. the Neocons Crisis in Syria: Obama vs. the Neocons
Republican war hawks are pressing for military engagement in Syria. Here’s hoping the president ignores them.
Dec 13, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss
Calling Syrian Terrorists ‘Terrorists’ Calling Syrian Terrorists ‘Terrorists’
CNN’s Arwa Damon has been so deeply enmeshed with rebel fighters, she has lost all traces of objective reporting.
Dec 11, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss