National Security State

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) Dear Grandson, Consider my address book — and yes, the simple fact that I have one already tells you a good deal about me. All the names, street addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers that matter to me are still on paper, not in a computer or on an […]

Iran

If U.S. Bombed Iran What Would Actually Happen?

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – ” Cenk Uygur host of The Young Turks discusses what would happen if the United States decided to launch a war campaign against Iran. “Many in the United States government seems to be foaming at the mouth to go to war with Iran including Republican Sen. Tom Cotton […]

Barack Obama

As Congress takes on Iran Deal, it should Remember its Iraq Blunder

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By David M. Faris | (Ethos) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Geneva I SALT gets in your eyes The last time Lausanne was in the news, it was for hosting the negotiations that finalized the post-WWI territorial settlement in the Middle East that appears to be […]

Featured

President Hillary Clinton’s Middle East Policy: Interventions, Wars, More of Same

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Hillary Clinton announced her bid for the presidency Sunday, prompting another of these attempts at IC to do a quick overview of what we can expect from the candidates with regard to Middle East policy. Clinton supported Israel’s attack on defenseless Gaza last summer, which left about 2000 […]

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President Rand Paul’s Middle East Policy

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) declared his candidacy today to be the Republican standard bearer in the 2016 election. So what would a Rand Paul presidency look like with regard to Middle East policy? Although Paul has a reputation as a Libertarian non-interventionist, he isn’t actually either one. As […]

Constitution

Founding Fathers decried Standing Army: How about a Global Pentagon?

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By William D. Hartung | (Tomdispatch.com) President Obama and Senator John McCain, who have clashed on almost every conceivable issue, do agree on one thing: the Pentagon needs more money. Obama wants to raise the Pentagon’s budget for fiscal year 2016 by $35 billion more than the caps that exist under current law allow. McCain wants to […]

Foreign Policy

Traitor Senators used Israeli Spies against their own Country

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By Cenk Uygur and John Iadaola | (The Young Turks) | – “Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and John Iadaola (https://twitter.com/jiadarola) host of The Young Turks discuss a recent report on Israeli spying activities used to aide traitor senators against Iran/U.S. nuclear talks. Israel intelligence was funneled to Republican Congresspeople in order to ruin support for Iran/U.S. […]

Bill of Rights

Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

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By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that, and let me put what I do understand about it in a nutshell: based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching […]

Militarization

The Impotence of the Big Dick strain of American Nationalism

Juan Cole

By Nan Levinson | (Tomdispatch.com) Let’s face it: we live in a state of pervasive national security anxiety. There are various possible responses to this low-grade fever that saps resolve, but first we have to face the basis for that anxiety — what I’ve come to think of as the Big Dick School of Patriotism, […]