After reluctantly passing New START, Republicans now seek to cripple it before it gets off the ground.
Casting Credibility to Winds, Republicans Attempt to Disarm Disarmament
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Raise Your Hand if You Think the Expansion of Our Nuclear-Industrial Complex Escapes Iran
The new nuclear-weapons complex that’s being built at Los Alamos is more seismically challenged than Fukushima and more expensive than Project Manhattan.
Daylight Opening Between U.S. and Israel Barely Visible to Naked Eye
Obama cannot continue publicly regretting the consequences to Palestinians of occupation while passing the ammunition to Israel.
WikiLeaks: To Maintain Illusion of Independence From U.S., Canada Downplayed Role in Iraq Invasion
Canada offered to “discreetly” assist the United States as it prepared to invade Iraq even as the ruling Liberal party trumpeted its foreign policy independence from Washington.
Iranq: One Size Foreign Policy Fits All
As with Iraq beating the drums of war on Iran only requires alleging imminent acquisition of WMD.
WikiLeaks: Canada’s Harper Embodies American Right’s Worst Tendencies
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose Conservative Party took a commanding majority in nationwide elections last week, has built his political success on a platform of his country’s supposed Arctic sovereignty, pro-business economics, and dodging action on climate change.
Tax Justice as Climate Justice
You don’t have to leave America to go to the Third World. I, for example, live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and here, as in all northern megacities, crushing poverty surrounds the comfortable precincts. I can’t call it “extreme” poverty, for of course it cannot compete with the despair endemic to, say, the North African drought zones. But when an organization like Remote Area Medical feels compelled to bring its traveling free clinic to The Oakland Coliseum (now, officially, the Oracle Arena), and when thousands stand for long hours to receive basic care they could not hope to afford, the problem is nonetheless clear. This last April, when the good folks at RAM pulled up stakes and left Oakland for their next stop, it was Haiti. The America they were leaving was not the “exceptional” America of the official dream.
Bin Laden: Death by Verb
How we define Osama bin Laden’s death matters.
Addle-Brained Islamic Extremists Take Revenge on Muslims for bin Laden’s Killing
It’s difficult to understand how blowing up Pakistani militaries avenges bin Laden’s killing by U.S. forces.
Bin Laden’s Killing Used to Rationalize Guantanamo Detention
Neocons would have us believe that Osama bin Laden’s death was facilitated by their legal rulings.