By Andrew J. Bacevich | (Tomdispatch.com) – Policy intellectuals — eggheads presuming to instruct the mere mortals who actually run for office — are a blight on the republic. Like some invasive species, they infest present-day Washington, where their presence strangles common sense and has brought to the verge of extinction the simple ability to […]
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Foreign Policy
Some U.S. leaders to refuse meeting with Israeli PM during Washington trip
CCTV America | — “Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with lawmakers a few weeks before elections in Israel. CCTV America’s Nathan King filed this report from Washington.” CCTV: “Some U.S. leaders to refuse meeting with Israeli PM during Washington trip”
American ‘Exceptionalism’ or just Above the Law? Torture, Drones, Assassination with Impunity
By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) – “The sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation’s leader can defy the law to serve the greater good. Though Schmitt’s service as Nazi Germany’s chief jurist and his unwavering support for Hitler from the night of […]
Obama on his Foreign Policy: Between Realism and Idealism
By Matthew Iglesias | (Vox) – “When it comes to foreign policy, is President Obama a realist or an idealist? Turns out he rejects both terms.” Vox: “Obama on the goal of his foreign policy”
Debating U.S. Foreign Policy: Where are the Women?
By Jasmin Ramsey | – WASHINGTON (IPS) – Women are running some of the United States’ most prominent foreign policy focused think tanks, leading groundbreaking foreign policy initiatives, and reporting from the front lines of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones. But there’s a dearth when it comes to women’s voices in U.S. media coverage […]
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