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Ballot Box Blues: The Most Dispiriting Election of a Lifetime (Mine)

by Tom Engelhardt | Nov 8, 2010

By the time you read this, I’ll already have voted — the single most reflexive political act of my life — in the single most dispiriting election I can remember. As I haven’t missed a midterm or presidential election since my first vote in 1968, that says something. Or maybe by the time you’ve gotten to this, the results of the 2010 midterm elections will be in. In either case, I’ll try to explain just why you don’t really need those results to know which way the wind is gusting.

A Progressive-Tea Party Foreign Policy Coalition? Don’t Hold Your Breath

by Peter Certo | Nov 6, 2010

Once “official,” Tea Partiers drop their flirtation with defense cuts and libertarian non-intervention in favor of good old American exceptionalism.

Obama’s Trip to India: Don’t Rush into a Bilateral Investment Treaty

by Sarah Anderson | Nov 6, 2010

The U.S. and India should not sign a treaty that will only serve the short-term interests of large corporations, and undermine the authority of governments to protect their people from financial crisis.

Obama Foreign Policy Likely to Face Republican Challenges

by Jim Lobe | Nov 6, 2010

While foreign policy issues played almost no role in Tuesday’s election results, the historic Republican landslide will almost certainly make Barack Obama’s vision of a more positive U.S. role in international affairs more difficult to pursue.

Midterm Miscarriage

by John Feffer | Nov 2, 2010

Even before the polls opened for voting in the U.S. midterm elections, the finger-pointing had already begun. The Obama agenda, instead of coming to term after four years, was suffering a miscarriage halfway through. The potential culprits were many and diverse.

Proposition 19 Is a Vote Heard ‘Round the World

by Coletta Youngers | Nov 1, 2010

Latin American governments can’t help but ask how the U.S. government can continue to call on them to implement harsh drug control policies when a key policy is being called into question in the United States itself.

What if Nuclear Terrorism Were Just a Mouse Click Away?

by Russ Wellen | Oct 31, 2010

With 50 nukes knocked offline, inquiring minds want to know: can hacking be ruled out?

Republican Sees 50 Nukes Knocked Offline as a Chance to Recoup Lost Ground

by Russ Wellen | Oct 29, 2010

Republican sees nuke base failure as yet another opportunity to engage in new START obstructionism.

START: Arms Affirmation Treaty

by Darwin BondGraham | Oct 29, 2010

The New START treaty should at best be called an “arms affirmation treaty,” confirming that expensive weapons systems, which include the nation’s nuclear arsenal, remain a national priority. Like the earlier Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, New START insulates nuclear weapons spending, as well as large budgets for other weapons systems.

Is Obama a Turkey or an Eagle?

by Caleb Rossiter | Oct 28, 2010

In 1784 Benjamin Franklin played the tongue-in-cheek naturalist and castigated the decision by the Congress of the Confederation to adopt the bald eagle as the symbol of the United States. The bald eagle, Franklin wrote, lives by “Sharping & Robbing,” watching a “diligent” hawk fishing, and then stealing its hard-earned booty. Rejecting this lazy thief, Franklin preferred that the national honor be borne by the proud but prudent (“tho’ a little vain & silly”) wild turkey.