As our current leaders, implacable and disconnected, continue on the path of militarism and war, they fail to recognize that peace is not simply a fervent ideal; it is the only path to survival.
Tom Hayden | Posted 04.03.2012
Congress should update and amend the existing War Powers Act (WPA), passed in 1973 over Richard Nixon's veto, to cover future American military operations relying on drones instead of ground forces.
Renee Parsons | Posted 03.31.2012
Confirmation Sunday evening that US armed forces are engaged militarily without prior congressional approval requires some Member of Congress, any Member of Congress, to demand an immediate full-scale congressional inquiry.
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 09.04.2011
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders abandoned plans for a test vote Tuesday on authorizing the U.S. military operation against Libya as Repub...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution backing President Barack Obama on Libya, despite Re...
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 08.28.2011
WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to approve U.S. participation in the military campaign agains...
Posted 08.28.2011
WASHINGTON –- The State Department's top lawyer on Tuesday defended the legality of the U.S. military involvement in Libya as some lawmakers acc...
Bruce Fein | Posted 08.28.2011
Congresswoman Bachmann's ill-informed divorce from the Constitution disqualifies her as a presidential candidate. Nothing is as dangerous as constitutional ignorance in action.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 06.26.2011
Hilary Rosen and Kellyanne Conway disagree about how heavy the economic albatross will be politically and whether the GOP fringe will taint its nominee. Did President 'Aiken' just declare victory and come home?
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2011
John Huntsman... whoops, took that from their own campaign materials, sorry... let's start over... Jon Huntsman announced he was running for president, to a giant collective yawn outside the Beltway.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 08.24.2011
WASHINGTON — The House's tea party caucus split on a major foreign policy vote Friday – whether to cut off money for air attacks in Libya ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- In some of the most bizarre votes seen yet in this Congress, House lawmakers from both parties banded together Friday to rebuke Presiden...
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 08.24.2011
WASHINGTON — Challenging presidential power, a defiant U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Friday to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wa...
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 08.24.2011
WASHINGTON — Challenging presidential power, a defiant U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Friday to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wa...
Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 08.23.2011
The Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Peace and Security Taskforce call on Congress and the President to immediately end our war in Libya.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders will bring a bill to the floor as soon as Friday to defund U.S. military operations in Libya, a much stronger c...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.21.2011
[Deep inside a large white house, there is counseling...] "Do I have to lie down?" "Not at all, Mr. President! Not at all! Whatever is comfortable for you."
Jonathan Schell | Posted 08.21.2011
War is only war, it seems, when Americans are dying, when we die. When only they, the Libyans, die, it is something else for which there is as yet apparently no name.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) knocked leaders of his own party Tuesday for lining up votes to defund U.S. military operations in Libya and ...
AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 08.21.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two top senators are pushing a resolution authorizing a limited role for the U.S. military in Libya. Foreign Relations Committee...
David Bromwich | Posted 08.20.2011
Of the ten members of Congress who on June 15 filed a lawsuit against the President for violating the War Powers Act, seven are Republicans and three are Democrats. Their case is simple: the President, they say, has acted against the Constitution.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 08.20.2011
American presidents care very much about being able to wage war without asking permission. And they do just that with great regularity to the dismay of much the rest of the world.
Miles Jaffe | Posted 08.19.2011
I am an enthusiastic supporter of President Obama. Yes, on some issues, health care, the size of the stimulus, I had hoped he would take a more prog...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 08.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- In appearances on Sunday talk shows, several top Republicans rebuked members of their own party for backing "isolationist" foreign polic...
Renee Parsons | Posted 05.24.2012