Embed this graphic on your site I have long held the suspicion that US politicians and major media have developed a powerful alternative logic that they don’t wish to share with the rest of us. It’s a logic that allows one to do such wondrous things as prove a large-scope negative and infer a universally…
On Wednesday night, the Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment introduced by Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley calling on President Obama to speed up U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. This was a watershed event towards ending the war. The previous high water mark of Senators calling for expedited withdrawal was 27; the previous high water…
You might not know it from national press reports, but there are plenty of Members of Congress of both political parties who think that cutting the military budget is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and have concrete ideas for doing so. (The New York Times did note last week that the leaderships of…
Shortening the war in Afghanistan by two years could easily pay half of the costs of an extension and expansion of the payroll tax holiday, the centerpiece of President Obama’s jobs bill. Thus, the amendment put forward by Senator Merkley calling on the President to accelerate the drawdown in Afghanistan – which the Senate may…
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Three key amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act are expected to come up for a vote this week in the Senate. Two of these amendments would help end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the other could bring us closer to war with Iran. Amendment to Accelerate the US Military Drawdown from Afghanistan…
The spectacle of Democrats and Republicans arguing about who is to "blame" for the "failure" of the "Supercommittee" is certainly tempting for many partisans. But any progressive who participates in the spectacle risks attacking their own interests to the degree that they promote the implicit assumption that the public interest would have been better served…
Just Foreign Policy issued a press release earlier today in response to the Congressional “Super” Committee’s failure to come to an agreement to reduce government spending by $1.2 trillion over the next ten years. You may read the press release here.
Just Foreign Policy joined with the Project on Middle East Democracy, Human Rights Watch, the AFL-CIO and other groups and individuals in sending a letter to Secretary of State Clinton, urging her to press the government of Bahrain for concrete measures to improve the human rights situation, including the release of medical professionals and other…
Today Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced an amendment (#1174) to the National Defense Authorization Act calling for an accelerated drawdown in Afghanistan. The bi-partisan amendment is currently supported by: [updated 11/29]: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)…