As President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is compared to Richard Nixon's opening to China, Bibi Netanyahu must know how Chiang Kai-shek felt as he watched his old friend Nixon toasting Mao in Peking. The Iran nuclear deal is not on the same geostrategic level. Yet...
Last week’s successfully concluded Iran agreement is one of the two most important achievements of an otherwise pretty dismal Obama presidency. Along with the ongoing process of normalizing relations with Cuba, this move shows that diplomacy can produce peaceful,...
At least 204 were killed and 30 were wounded in the latest violence. In Hudaid, 10 people were killed and 16 were wounded in a mortar attack. Thirteen men were kidnapped, including a Sunni tribal leader and his three sons. Militants killed three soldiers, including a...
Wesley Clark, the retired general who almost started World War III with Russia, has a bright idea: why not set up internment camps for "radicalized" Americans in order to stanch the threat of domestic terrorism? Yes, he actually said this, and, what's more, MSNBC...
Which sounds better, to “die for your government”, or “give your life for your country”? The first could be interpreted, after a mountain of bodies pile up, as a mistake. As something that would seem to require scrutiny, admissions of having been wrong, of blame to...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let me give you a reason that’s anything but historical for reading Tim Weiner’s remarkable new book, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon. Mind you, with the last of the secret Nixon White House tapes...
From first reactions, it appears that Hill Republicans will be near unanimous in voting a resolution of rejection of the Iran nuclear deal. They will then vote to override President Obama's veto of their resolution. And if the GOP fails there, Gov. Scott Walker says...
