Here’s the thing about President Obama’s war on whistleblowers: In bringing espionage charges in nine cases involving disclosures or alleged misuse of classified information, the current administration has set a floor, rather than a ceiling, on the number and types of...

Campaign books are usually forgettable, uniformly boring, and go mostly unread. However, Sen. Rand Paul's recently published addition to the genre is neither forgettable nor boring: if it goes largely unread then that will be a shame. For it is a sincerely written,...

Originally posted at TomDispatch.On June 13th, Greg Jaffe and Missy Ryan of the Washington Post reported what should have been big news (though it was hardly noted). In recent White House "debates" over a disastrously deteriorating situation in Iraq, President Obama's...

As the June 30 deadline for the conclusion of talks on Iran's nuclear program looms, the main foreign policy issue of our time comes ever more sharply into focus. And by that I don't just mean the immediate question of whether a deal can be reached, but also the...

NATO is planning to return to Iraq by training officers to help in the war with the Islamic State militants. All 28 NATO state are separately involved in the effort to some degree. The International Organization for Migration reported that the Islamic State crisis has...

Although the 2016 election is a year-and-a-half away, the verdict is already in on the continuation of post-World War II interventionism as the policy of choice. After the hysteria in the media induced by ISIS's beheading of a few Americans in retaliation for U.S....

"U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe: A Message to Russia," ran the headline in The New York Times. "In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting...