Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are increasingly seen as leaders of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, largely as a result of being the most talked-about alternatives among progressives to Hillary Clinton as the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Progressives who are most enthusiastic about Warren and Sanders tend to be…
"Time Is Running Out on the CIA Torture Report," the National Journal reports: Backroom negotiations over the release of a long-delayed Senate report on the George W. Bush administration’s use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" practices are again hitting a wall.[…]The Senate is set to adjourn in mid-December, but [Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne] Feinstein can still hold…
In response to the U.S. bombing of Islamic State ["ISIS"] fighters in Iraq and Syria, which Congress has never explicitly approved, Members of Congress long concerned about presidents and Congresses skirting the Constitutional role of Congress in deciding when the U.S. will use military force have introduced H. Con. Res. 114, "Urging Congress to debate and…
In response to Israel’s recent announcement declaring nearly 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank “state land” with the intention of expanding settlements in the Etzion bloc, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki issued the following statement: We are deeply concerned about the declaration of a large area as ‘state land’ to be used for…
Judging from press reports, when Congress returns from its August recess in early September, the United States military will have been bombing "Islamic State" fighters in Iraq for a month, with a broader set of missions than originally advertised, and with plans to continue bombing for months. The United States Constitution and the 1973 War Powers…
The greatest struggle facing the anti-war movement in the United States is the struggle to get people who come to anti-war demonstrations after a war starts to engage politically to prevent the same wars in the future. In the case of U.S. policy towards Iran, we created a political movement to support diplomacy with Iran…
Organizers estimated 50,000 protesters marched on Washington to demand an end to US support of Israel’s operation in Gaza on August 2, 2014. On Saturday, tens of thousands of demonstrators from across the country descended on Washington, DC, to call for an end to US support for Israel’s latest military operation in Gaza. The demonstration…
Americans for Peace Now Backs Kerry on Gaza Ceasefire Robert Naiman, Daily Kos, Wednesday, July 30, 2014http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/30/1317767/-Americans-for-Peace-Now-Backs-Kerry-on-Gaza-Ceasefire (Revised from a piece yesterday at Huffington Post to include the Americans for Peace Now alert and the page of pro-Kerry-diplomacy tweets that Just Foreign Policy put up.) It was bad enough that Israel’s government rejected Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal to end the violence in…
Protesters confront Rep. Eliot Engel and others as they depart the “New York Stands With Israel” press conference at New York City Hall on Monday, July 14, 2014. Around a hundred protesters surrounded New York City Hall during a “New York Stands With Israel” press conference Monday morning. The event, which was organized by the…
Protesters chant “money for health and education—not for Israel’s occupation!” while marching down Broadway in Greenwich Village, NYC on Friday, July 11, 2014. Hundreds of protesters gathered at Union Square in New York City on Friday to call for Americans to end their support of Israeli impunity in Palestine. Demonstrators held a rally outside Max…