The Bush administration and its European allies have given Iran a two-week deadline to respond to a proposal that they freeze the expansion of their uranium enrichment program for six weeks in exchange for a US agreement to freeze the expansion of sanctions for six weeks. During the six week...

You have probably heard of Pastor John Hagee. Senator McCain, after seeking Hagee's endorsement, rejected it: "McCain told CNN's Brian Todd that he rejected Hagee's endorsement after Todd brought to his attention Hagee's comments that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by hastening the desire of Jews to return...

It's amazing how many people who should know better get sucked in by the corporate media's obsession with "flip-flops." The corporate media love this frame, because if someone said last year that two and two is five, and today they say it's four, you can nail them for "flip-flopping" without...

In recent weeks we've again seen an escalation of US/Israeli threats to attack Iran. Among many other examples, the House of Representatives is currently considering a resolution promoted by AIPAC that would effectively demand a blockade against Iran. This resolution has over 200 co-sponsors, although a surge of opposition has...

As we prepare to celebrate the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from the jackboot of British imperialism, consider a phrase in the Declaration that should surely vex some purported American patriots today: "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind."

The text seems to indicate that the signers...

The Cheneyista faction in the Bush administration and Congress is once again laboring mightily to place the idea of a U.S. attack on Iran before the Bush administration leaves office back on the table. The American public and the Congress quite reasonably still have a very bad taste in their...

Remember when the right-wing Canadian government tried to interfere in the U.S. presidential election by leaking an internal memo claiming that an Obama advisor had assured them that Obama's criticisms of NAFTA were just for show? It was a big deal in Canada -- a political scandal. The parliamentary opposition...

Is Israel really preparing to attack Iran? The New York Times today describes a June Israeli military exercise U.S. officials say "appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities." A "senior Pentagon official" said a goal of the exercise "was to send a...

When Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against Vice-President Cheney, and then against President Bush, one of his key accusations was that the Bush Administration has tried to lead the United States into war with Iran.

So you might have thought that Members of Congress who signed on to...

Who says America doesn't have a free press?

Everything you know about the world will be reported by the New York Times -- eventually.

You just have to be very patient -- and read very carefully.

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that President Bush "accused" Iran...

Where are America's "million Trotskyites" when you need them?

When Iran' UN Ambassador told the Boston Globe that Iran would "consider establishing an internationally owned consortium inside Iran that could produce nuclear fuel with Iranian participation" - a proposal advocated by such impeccably credentialed members of the US...

Among American newspapers, only the Boston Globe, apparently, thinks its readers might be interested to know that there is a proposal on the table that could bridge the gap between Iran's insistence on its right to enrich uranium on Iranian soil and international concern that Iran's enrichment program would increase...

At the height of the Reagan Administration, it was not uncommon to see a bumper sticker promoted by the College Republicans: "What About Afghanistan?"

The implied argument was along the lines of: those who object to the Reagan Administration's efforts to overthrow the government of Nicaragua should be dismissed as...

Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama "quickly backtracked" from his remarks in a speech to AIPAC that Jerusalem "must remain undivided," a statement that had drawn widespread criticism from Palestinians, the Washington Post reports.

In a interview Thursday with CNN, Obama said:

"Well, obviously, it's going to be up to...

How often have we been told that institutions of our society that dominate public debate over foreign policy - Congress, the intelligence bureaucracy, the media - learned lessons from the run-up to the Iraq war, and everything is different now?

Now these claims are put to the test, because we...

Who doesn't love reading the Washington Post? You never know when an
otherwise quotidian article is going to have a Toy Surprise stashed at the end.

Here are the last two paragraphs of yesterday's 15 paragraph article on McCain's speech to AIPAC:

McCain's opposition to meeting with Iranian...

On Saturday, the Boston Globe ran an interview by Farah Stockman with Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations. This itself is noteworthy: those who believe that the United States should pursue serious diplomacy with Iran might, presumably, wish to pay some attention to the words of the...

No-one outside of Iran, and few inside Iran, can state with certainty what the long-term intentions are of the Iranian leadership are with respect to the development of nuclear weapons. The question is inherently speculative, and it's no accident that those who seek confrontation want to centralize attention on an...

I'm delighted Senator Webb's GI Bill and Senator McCain's opposition to it presents another opportunity to emphasize that the neoconservative elite who lied about Iraq also lied about "supporting the troops" -- the very club they used to silence criticism when they lied about Iraq. If we can reach the...

After audiotape surfaced earlier this month of right-wing televangelist Pastor John Hagee preaching that God sent Hitler to cause the Holocaust so that Jews would move to Israel, many organizations and individuals, including J Street, MoveOn, and Brave New Films, called on Senator McCain to renounce the endorsement from Pastor...