Note: this memo is primarily aimed at tech-savvy kids, not at old fogie technophobe Luddites. If you are a technophobe, move along, nothing to see here. Background: the world has changed, right? We do online petitions now. It’s more efficient on both sides of the interaction – easier to pass, easier to sign; you don’t…
There is wide political agreement that we need to do more to support our veterans and their families. A recent spectacular demonstration was the 326-90 vote in the House and 95-3 vote in the Senate to repeal the military pension cuts to veterans and active service members that were in the Ryan-Murray budget deal. A…
Sonya Michel Professor of history, women’s studies and American studies University of Maryland College Park, Md. Dear Ms. Michel, I was very disappointed to see you argue in the NYT that Omar Barghouti "vastly overstates" the yes vote in the American Studies Association on the boycott of Israeli higher education institutions by…
Just over a week ago, the Senate fell one vote short of overcoming a Republican filibuster to pass a three-month extension of assistance for the long-term unemployed. The New York Times reported: Republicans and Democrats, many from the nation’s most economically depressed states, had been trying to reach a solution that would allow people who have exhausted their unemployment…
It was, without doubt, a world-historical moment last Thursday when AIPAC concededthat its push to sabotage U.S. diplomacy with Iran had been decisively rebuked. As theNew York Times noted, it had been decades since AIPAC lost such a high-profile showdown so decisively. But it seems very unlikely that AIPAC is finished trying to obstruct realistic diplomacy with…
2013 was a big year for Just Foreign Policy. Here’s a brief summary of our greatest wins. Preventing a US military strike on Syria. When President Obama announced his intention to bomb Syria, Just Foreign Policy was the first progressive organization to say that Obama should go to Congress to seek authorization. We initiated a…
A key reason that many Americans are turned off by politics is that they don’t experience news sportscasters who are on their side. The average American, if she read the New York Times, would feel like a Chicagoan watching the Cubs game on St. Louis TV. Her team hits a home run and the sportscaster is…
At a Senate Banking Committee hearing on December 12, Sen. Warren backed the interim Iran deal between the P5+1 and Iran. Thank you, Sen. Warren, and thank you to the over 14,000 JFP supporters who signed the petition! Watch the clip here. Here’s a transcript: Senator Warren: (To Chairman Johnson) Thank you Mr. Chairman; (to…
People have noticed the silence of former Secretary of State and widely presumed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry. Where does she stand? How long can she dodge? And how long can former President Bill Clinton dodge? It’s not like the…
by Robert Naiman The Senate Intelligence Committee recently took an important step by passing an intelligence authorization which would require for the first time – if it became law – that the Administration publicly report on civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes. Sarah Knuckey, Director of the Project on Extrajudicial Executions at New York University…