They may not agree on much. But both Democrats and Republicans included reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act – separating traditional commercial banking from Wall Street financial speculation – in their official party platforms. “Too big to fail” banks are a threat to our economy. But they’re also a threat to our democracy – and not only…
The COP21 international summit on the climate produced a landmark climate agreement with nearly 200 nations as cosignatories. [1] The agreement recognized “that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet” and “that deep reductions in global emissions will be required” to revert climate change and its effects….
The Obama administration is drawing up plans to significantly escalate U.S. military action in Libya. Administration officials say the campaign in Libya could begin in a matter of weeks. Urge Congress to exercise its Constitutional responsibility to debate and vote before U.S. military escalation in Libya by signing our petition at MoveOn: https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/congress-debate-vote-before-new-libya-war This escalation…
In an interview from Davos with Bloomberg TV on January 20, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, a top lobbyist for the pro-corporate-power Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement, assured viewers that if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential election, she will support the TPP, even though she opposes it now. Urge Members of Congress to take a…
Some have used the attacks in Paris Friday to whip up a xenophobic hysteria against Syrian refugees. Members of Congress say their phones are ringing with demands to keep Syrian refugees out, but not with voices insisting that America is a place of refuge from persecution. We need to speak up. Welcoming refugees is our…
It’s magical thinking to claim that US air power is the solution to Syria’s problems. People who claim that US air power can magically “protect civilians” in Syria should explain why US air power just blew up a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. But Washington never seems to tire of the fairy tale that…
The DC press says it’s getting down to the wire on a possible vote in the House on fast track to substantially pre-approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other pending trade deals, with a vote possible as early as Thursday. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who was a close second in a recent straw poll of Wisconsin Democrats, has called…
A proposed New Year’s Resolution: in 2015, let’s not punish the Palestinians for joining the International Criminal Court. No doubt some Members of Congress – presumably, the ones who aren’t busy resigning for felony tax evasion or defending themselves for schmoozing with white supremacists – will try to gin up an outrage festival and demand sanctions on the Palestinians for…
A left-right coalition, supported by the president and public opinion, could successfully push Congress to end the Cuba embargo. Can Republicans nostalgic for the Cold War block President Obama from taking executive actions to improve US diplomatic and economic ties with Cuba? Could a Republican-led Congress vote to end the US embargo? Some Republican leaders…
"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…