From the indispensable Just Foreign Policy: Help Rand Paul Call the Question on War with Iran Sen. Rand Paul introducing his amendment to S. 2101. Before we have any military conflict with Iran, the Senate and the House should have at least one debate and vote on it....
Under statutory mandates, Congress is required to impose automatic budget cuts if an agreement on "debt reduction" is not reached. It is already clear Congress is ignoring its own self-imposed requirements, which Americans overwhelmingly support. As I recently wrote:...
In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A democratically elected congressman of the United States...
David Rothkopf on "Obama's Debacle" in Afghanistan: ...The president opposed his own policy of sending in more troops to stabilize Afghanistan from the moment he approved it after months and months of messy internal wrangling. So why did he do it? The answer is that...
Today, on the morning of the pre-trial hearing of the "NATO 3," -- who are being charged with "conspiracy to commit terrorism," "terrorism" and "possession of incendiary devices"-- another explosive (excuse the pun) revelation has been made by Occupy Chicago. In an...
(Reposted from The American Conservative) For years, Pentagon officials have insisted that the open-air burn pits incinerating tons of garbage and other waste on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan could not be causing long-term health problems for our troops. But an...
This may illuminate, for those who have been confused, what the true role of DC's major think tanks is: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, concerned by his portrayal in U.S. media as an autocratic leader intent on consolidating power, has invited several influential...
"President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there," Reuters reported on Saturday. Just to remind people, after about a year...
B'Tselem: On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village 'Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar. B'Tselem volunteer photographers filmed the events from two angles. The...
Via Mike Riggs at Reason, Michael Hastings reports at BuzzFeed that an amendment has been inserted into the latest version of the NDAA that would nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987, both of which ban domestic...
