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.
It’s sometimes lost on the arms control community that halting the spread of nuclear weapons begins at home.
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?
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.
The response of Libya to the Benghazi attacks provide hope that it may be capable of controlling the militias in the end.
You can be sure that the presidential candidates will keep certain issues at arm’s length on Monday.
The Wehrmacht only objected to the Third Reich’s policies of extermination when it looked like it might suffer the repercussions.
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.
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 Project for the New Century targeted Syria and Iran as sponsors of Hezbollah.