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The Giant Gaps in Obama’s ISIS Strategy
Obama’s ISIS speech would have provoked outrage if Bush gave it. Now, however, Democrats and Republicans are united over foreign war to such an extent that a prolonged…
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Progressive Democrats Follow Obama to War in Syria
It’s nearly impossible to find an anti-war congressperson nowadays. A bi-partisan consensus exists for an expanded war in Iraq and Syria — from the “radical” socialist Bernie Sanders to Obama’s right-wing…
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Socialists on Palestine and Israel: One or Two States?
Workers Action With the recent Israeli war on Gaza resulting in the deaths of over two thousand Palestinians along with the massive destruction of an already fragile and…
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The Unspoken Consequences of Bombing Syria
Now that U.S. bombs are falling in Syria, will Islamic extremism be stopped in its tracks? Such a question is an insult to the intellect, yet it’s the…
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Obama Reconsiders Attacking Assad
Sometimes bad ideas die slowly. It was only one year ago that Obama announced he would bomb the Syrian government, only to change his mind at the last…
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Shamus Cooke: Israel Is Heavily Protected by the United States at the UN
Kourosh Ziabari Reprinted from the Fars News Agency TEHRAN (FNA) — Shamus Cooke, an American labor activist and writer, says that the United States heavily protects the Israeli…
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Why Obama Rejected Peace With Iran
How did Obama manage to botch U.S. foreign policy so stunningly? The promising speeches he gave in 2008 earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. But his inspiring words…
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A New Push for Peace in Syria?
Why are there no serious peace talks to end the war in Syria? After robbing over 130,000 people of their lives, and evicting over 9 million refugees from their…
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How Obama is Making the World More Dangerous
You’re not paranoid if you think the world feels more unstable — it is. There’s a dangerous confluence of political, economic, and military phenomena that is producing a…
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A Paper Peace and Proxy War With Iran
Obama’s foreign policy is bound in a thousand knots, all threatening to unwind. At the same time that the U.S. is engaged in nuclear negotiations with Iran the two…