The ease with which we’ve accepted drone attacks bodes ill for the future.
Drones: Whatever Became of U.S. Respect for International Norms Prohibiting Assassinations?
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Though Bin Laden Was Hiding in Plain Sight, His Extreme Caution Tripped Him Up
Security knows security when it sees it.
Citizen Participation in Presidential Debates Kicked to the Curb This Election
The larger question facing our nation about the U.S. role in the world and how the candidates themselves would define what is in the national security interest of the United States was almost completely ignored.
Attacking the Nuclear Weapons-Industrial Complex on Both the Macro and Micro Levels
It’s sometimes lost on the arms control community that halting the spread of nuclear weapons begins at home.
A Conspiracy So Mundane
The U.S. right wing appears to have a lock on conspiracy theories in the Obama era. But historically, such paranoid theorizing has been a bipartisan pastime. Has our dispossession from democracy blunted our ability to see reason?
McGovern’s Progressive Leadership on Middle East Policy
He felt that, as a friend to Israel, he was obliged to tell them to discontinue engaging in acts that were both immoral and threatened its own self-interest.
Obama Administration May, in Fact, Have Let Its Guard Down on Benghazi
The response of Libya to the Benghazi attacks provide hope that it may be capable of controlling the militias in the end.
Another Global Issue the Foreign Policy Debate Will Pretend Doesn’t Exist
You can be sure that the presidential candidates will keep certain issues at arm’s length on Monday.
Seminal New Book Shows Just How Little German Army Objected to Holocaust
The Wehrmacht only objected to the Third Reich’s policies of extermination when it looked like it might suffer the repercussions.
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.