By Scott Beauchamp Hawks such as Sen. John McCain and commentators such as former New York Times columnist Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal editor Bret Stephens fret about America’s growing isolationism and the potential for a de-Americanized world, in… Read More ›
Here is a year end wrap up and predictions for 2015 for Syria and no solution in sight. It is very sobering article from a US Syrian expert. Oil is more important than bombs in that area, and the rich… Read More ›
Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying such criticism goes “against American values”.Israel came under fire last week after a Jerusalem city official signed the final go-ahead for construction of… Read More ›
By Elizabeth Dickinson in Foreign Policy ABU DHABI and DOHA — Behind a glittering mall near Doha’s city center sits the quiet restaurant where Hossam used to run his Syrian rebel brigade. At the battalion’s peak in 2012 and 2013,… Read More ›
How to Turn Syria’s Opposition Into a Real Fighting Force By Kenneth M. Pollack in Foreign Affairs Syria is a hard one. The arguments against the United States’ taking a more active role in ending the vicious three-year-old conflict there… Read More ›
By Jessica Mason The United States could be on the verge of calling its first constitutional convention since 1787, and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or “ALEC,” has been working behind the scenes to make it happen, including through its… Read More ›
By Dennis J Bernstein in Consortium News AP: Hillary Clinton was probably the most important actor in supporting the coup in Honduras. In part, perhaps, one would assume because one of her best friends from law school, Lanny Davis, who had… Read More ›
By MUSTAPHA TLILI in The New York Times “You must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your… Read More ›
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