Unveiling the most extensive gun control proposal in generations, U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed nearly two dozen executive orders and called on the U.S. Congress to enact a legislative package to blunt the country’s growing trend of gun violence.
While many progressives are lauding the new moves, some are expressing regret that the president didn’t include basic initiatives to curb the significant flow of weapons from the United States into Mexico.
Understanding the implications of nuclear weapons may be too much for us mere mortals.
John Kiriakou’s life is being overturned for what amounts to an indiscretion at worst.
But standing up to AIPAC, the defense industry (and members of Congress accountable to them) and the still-powerful neocons makes the Hagel appointment a good move for Obama.
A panel of experts looks at the U.S. and NATO end game in Afghanistan.
President Obama’s selection of John Kerry as the next secretary of state sends the wrong signal to America’s allies and adversaries alike. Kerry’s record in the United States Senate, where he currently chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, has included spurious attacks on the International Court of Justice, unqualified defense of Israeli occupation policies and human rights violations, and support for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
If it weren’t for punitive acts by the United States, Russia wouldn’t have banned adoptions by Americans.
It will likely use a combination of hard and soft power utilizing diplomacy, coalition building, political pressure, and military power.
Why don’t episodes like Newtown occur in another armed society, Israel?
Each year Conn Hallinan’s blog Dispatches From the Edge awards news stories and newsmakers that fall under the category of “Are you serious?” Here are 2012’s winners. Conn Hallinan at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.