Missile defense, drones, and other instruments of the devil.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (4/1)
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War & Peace
Don’t Blame the Iraq Debacle on the Israel Lobby
Right-wing Israeli governments and their U.S. supporters deserve blame for many policies that have led to needless human suffering, increased extremism in the Islamic world, and decreased security, as well as rampant violations of international legal principles. The U.S. invasion of Iraq, however, is not one of them.
Visions: America after Hegemony
To get out of the echo chamber, we need to present a vision of a democratic foreign and security policy that would tie our many campaigns together into a coherent whole, from the local to the global. Such a platform would provide hope to the many who sense that something is wrong with corporate capitalism, with U.S. foreign policy, and with the military-industrial complex. It would set the basis for a principled alliance between the peace movement and the labor, immigrant rights, women’s, economic, social, and racial justice movements that are its natural allies.
Hey Congress: Sequester Apartheid!
Thousands of lobbyists descended on Capitol Hill in early March to voice their concerns over sequestration cuts. But these lobbyists were not asking Congress to restore funding to schools, hospitals, or shelters. Instead, they were demanding that Congress fully fund military aid to Israel, aid which helps Israel continue its occupation and apartheid policies toward Palestinians.
Is a Desperate Assad Lashing Out With Chemical Weapons?
A UN fact-finding commission will investigate the charges.
Nixon’s “Madman Theory” Was Not the Vietnam War’s Only Nuclear Weapons Test Case
Nuclear weapons vastly complicate foreign policy.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/22)
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What Do They Do?
What do torturers do when they return home? Do they make love to their wives and play with their kids? What hobbies do they have? Do they wash the car and take out the trash?
Ten Years After Iraq War, Neo-Cons Struggle to Hold Republicans
Ten years after the Iraq War, the domination of neo-conservative ‘defense hawks’ in the Republican Party is increasingly under siege, not only because of the growing national consensus that the Iraq invasion was a major strategic debacle, but also because of the increasing popular concern – noted in a number of major polls over the past six months – that Washington simply can no longer afford the kind of imperial vision the hawks have promoted.
Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later
US troops left behind a devastated, tortured Iraq. Our real obligation, to the people of Iraq and the region and the rest of the world, is to transform our government and our country so that these resource-driven wars, shaped by lies and fought for power and for empire, whether in Iran or somewhere else, can never be waged again.