With Senator Barbara Mikulski’s support, 34 Democratic Senators have now publicly supported the Iran deal! That means it’s “game over” for Republican-AIPAC efforts to kill the agreement – even if the Republican Congress passes a resolution of disapproval, President Obama will veto it and the Republicans and AIPAC won’t have the votes to override President…
In the wake of the Israeli election — in which now re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spectacularly unmasked himself and his supporters as diehard opponents of a diplomatic resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and in which Netanyahu engaged, as the New York Times put it, in a "racist rant" against the Palestinian citizens of Israel — the Obama Administration…
Congressional Republicans who are trying to blow up U.S.-European diplomacy with Iran would desperately like Americans to believe that they have some alternative besides war to the administration’s multilateral efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran. If any fair-minded man or woman who reads newspapers retains any doubt that this claim is fraudulent, let…
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…
These are the references for a petition at MoveOn calling for key Democratic leaders Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former Sen. Hillary Clinton to strongly back President Obama’s efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program. I put the references here so as not to crowd the petition on…
In international diplomacy, gestures matter. This is particularly true for efforts to promote real diplomacy between the United States and Iran. For three decades, the United States has mostly pursued an "Iran cooties" policy. We can’t meet with Iranian leaders, because someone might interpret that to mean that we think that the Iranian government is…