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Honduran Military: “We Won’t Take Orders from a Leftist”

July 6, 2009Commentarydiplomacy, foreign policy, honduras, honduras coup, New York Times, Organization of American States, United Nations, Washington Post

Predictably, the Washington Post and New York Times the have given op-ed space in recent days to people seeking to justify the military coup in Honduras, and blaming the coup on President Zelaya (the same writer in the latter case. ) Meanwhile, the Honduran military’s top legal adviser was talking to the Miami Herald. Army…

$10,000 Reward: Show How the Iranian Election Was “Stolen”

June 25, 2009CommentaryBarack Obama, diplomacy, foreign policy, iran, iran election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, war with iran

I will pay $10,000 to the first person or organization that presents a coherent story for how the Iranian election was stolen that is consistent with knowable facts about the Iranian election process as it took place on June 12-13 and the information that has been published since, including the ballot box tallies that have…

House to Vote on Afghanistan “Exit Strategy”

June 24, 2009Commentaryafghanistan, Afghanistan War, Alcee Hastings, Barbara lee, exit strategy, foreign policy, Jim McGovern

Last night the House Rules Committee decided that Rep. Jim McGovern’s amendment requiring an exit strategy from Afghanistan would be in order when the House considers the FY2010 Defense Authorization [H.R. 2647]. That means that today or possibly tomorrow there should be a vote on the House floor on McGovern’s amendment, which would require the…

Will Pelosi Allow a Vote on an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?

June 23, 2009Commentaryafghanistan, Barack Obama, congress, foreign policy, Jim McGovern, MoveOn.org, rules committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Last week, the House leadership prevailed on many progressive Democrats to vote for the war supplemental, paying for military escalation in Afghanistan with no exit strategy, giving $108 billion to the International Monetary Fund without requiring modest reforms such as requiring the IMF to publish minutes of its board meetings (as the Federal Reserve does.)…

Based on Terror Free Tomorrow Poll, Ahmadinejad Victory Was Expected

June 15, 2009Commentaryforeign policy, iran, iran election, Juan Cole, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mir hussein moussavi, New York Times

Judging from commentary in the blogosphere, many Americans are already convinced by suggestions that have been carried in the media that the Presidential election in Iran was stolen. [Some press reports have been a bit more careful: the lead paragraph of the front page story in Sunday’s New York Times says that “it is impossible…

With IMF Money, the War Supplemental Could Fail in the House

June 4, 2009Commentaryafghanistan, afl-cio, Barney Frank, congress, foreign policy, International Monetary Fund, iraq, John Boehner, pakistan, Treasury Department, War Supplemental

Last month, 60 Members of the House of Representatives, including 51 Democrats, voted against the war supplemental for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. But this week, when the House is expected to consider the agreement of a House-Senate conference on the war funding, the supplemental could well be defeated on the floor of the House –…

In Cairo, Obama Can Score With Changed U.S. Policies Towards Palestine and Iran

June 2, 2009Commentaryegypt, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, iran, israel, lebanon, obama, palestine

President Obama has the opportunity to make history in Cairo on Thursday, the kind of history that President Eisenhower made when he rebuked the 1956 invasion of Egypt by Britain, France and Israel. Eisenhower’s stand won tremendous goodwill for the U.S. in the Arab world. If Obama stands firm on his policy differences with Israeli…

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