The Wehrmacht only objected to the Third Reich’s policies of extermination when it looked like it might suffer the repercussions.
Seminal New Book Shows Just How Little German Army Objected to Holocaust
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Fighting for Peace at the Local Level
The presidential debates have scarcely touched on military spending or its impacts on local communities in the United States. But activists in Albany County, New York are showing how to get the issue on the national agenda. On October 9, 2012, the legislature of Albany County, New York approved a proclamation calling upon Congress to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, cut the U.S. military budget, and use the savings to fund vital public programs at home.
Six Global Issues The Foreign Policy Debates Won’t Touch
In the interest of keeping vital global issues in the discussion, Foreign Policy in Focus reached out to scholars at the Institute for Policy Studies—our institutional home—to sketch out progressive perspectives on the world issues we don’t expect to get fair treatment in the debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Without an informed citizenry, these crucial topics will always fall by the wayside. So read up, and share widely!
The Attack-Syria Coalition’s Neocon Roots
The Project for the New Century targeted Syria and Iran as sponsors of Hezbollah.
How Much of Romney’s Bellicosity Toward Iran Is Just Campaign Theatrics?
The war of words over Iran’s nuclear program keeps expanding.
What They Won’t Talk About (Dept. of Foreign Policy)
AIDS in Africa and Black America
While the number of new HIV infections has substantially dropped in sub-Saharan Africa, it has changed very little in the United States, especially in African-American communities. Indeed, although black Americans represent just 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for almost 50 percent of Americans living with HIV/AIDS and 40 percent of total deaths to date.
Romney on the Middle East: Obama, but Worse
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute, while trotted out as a major rejection of the current administration’s approach to the Middle East, mostly just rehashed President Obama’s policies, albeit with more hawkish bravado. But Romney’s speech also included a host of faulty assumptions about Arabs and Muslims, indicating a potentially reckless misunderstanding of America’s relationship with the Muslim world.
Attacking Iran Is Like Setting Off Nuclear Bombs on the Ground
Compared to the interests of Jerusalem, Tehran, and Washington, those of the Iranian people come in a distant last.
Thanks Due Netanyahu for Forcing Obama’s Hand on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unrelenting pressure on the Obama administration to back him in his threats toward Iran backfired on him.