Month: September 2013

A lot of hard work and solid analysis went into Peter Beinart’s piece in The Daily Beast. We should discuss it. Let me open the floor to the readers. What do you think?

Paul Krugman has again been making some apposite comments on the EU economic crisis. First he slams Olli Rehn for being an ideological neo-liberal contemptuous of French democracy and with no real interest in furthering economic...

Vladimir Putin has succeeded in getting the New York Times to publish a column detailing his views on the Syria situation. He took the opportunity to critique U.S. foreign policy more generally, but that isn’t particularly...

Sorry, Syrian “freedom fighters,” no can do that bomb the shit out of Damascus for you, but we’re still with you.  U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in...

I consider it my job to understand congressional procedure but my eyes just glaze over when I try to understand what the House Republicans are trying to do with the Continuing Resolution and the ObamaCare defunding bills. As...