Anatol Lieven's latest piece in the New York Review of Books is a sober analysis of the shaky situation in Ukraine that contrasts sharply with the overwrought commentary in the U.S. that can't seem to avoid references to pre-WWII European land grabs. Lieven says the...
Strongly antiwar incumbent Rep. Walter Jones (R - NC) has won a hotly contested primary tonight, defeating a challenge from hawkish challenger and former Treasury Dept. official Taylor Griffin 51% to 45%. A Congressman since 1995, Rep. Jones was challenged almost...
John Bolton is confused. After spending years berating the Obama administration for failing to take action in Syria's bloody civil war, he has come out against such an intervention...kind of. In a piece in the New York Post, Bolton criticizes the administration for...
Citing RAND Corporation political scientist Christopher S. Chivvis and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's testimony before the House Committee on Oversight, The National Interest's John Allen Gay asks "Did We Bomb Libya to Keep the Arab Spring Going?" In addition to the...
"Credibility" in international affairs refers to the reliability of a country keeping its promises, typically the kind that involve using force under certain conditions like coming to the defense of allies or if a red line is crossed. It is always used by hawks and...
Rand Paul may be on another collision course with the Obama administration over the issue of drones. According to Reason's Matt Feeney, Paul "has warned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that he will put a hold on one of President Obama's appellate court...
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Urgent Action on UkraineThe buck stops with you, Mr. President. If you want to stop a bloody civil war between east and west Ukraine and avert Russian military...
Over at Foreign Policy, Christopher J. Fettweis argues the hysteria in Washington over Ukraine is based on "pathological beliefs" about foreign policy. "The United States has no interest at stake in eastern Ukraine or Crimea," Fettweis writes. "It is hard to imagine...
Reprinted from LobeLog with permission of the author.I’m supposed to be editing right now, but I’ve discovered something wonderful enough to put aside my responsibilities for a moment and write about it here.The short film posted above is part of...
The much-touted debate on NSA spying sponsored by Canada’s Aurea Foundation between Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz on one side and Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian had few surprises -- except for the surprise appearance of Edward Snowden in a video made for the...
