This month, we’re recounting the success stories of 2013. Last week, it was getting the US to talk to Iran. Today’s win: preventing war with Syria. Back in August when President Obama announced his intention to bomb Syria, Just Foreign Policy was the first progressive organization to say that the President should go to Congress…
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…
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…
WCIA-TV (with video): Former lawmaker joins anti-war vigil http://www.illinoishomepage.net/story/former-lawmaker-joins-anti-war-vigil/d/story/aDMALnphSUCrqV8m6ANYng WICD-TV (video): Some In CU Say: Don’t Strike Syria http://www.wicd15.com/news/top-stories/stories/some-cu-say-dont-strike-syria-8315.shtml WAND-TV (video): Residents urge lawmakers to vote against attacks on Syria http://www.wandtv.com/category/182814/video?clipId=9289985 News-Gazette: Candlelight vigil held over proposed strikes against Syria http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-09-09/candlelight-vigil-held-over-proposed-strikes-against-syria.html News-Gazette photo gallery: Vigil Against Bombing Syria: 9/9/13 http://www.news-gazette.com/multimedia/photogallery/2013-09-09/vigil-against-bombing-syria-9913 WILL-AM: At Rally, Fmr. Rep….
When the news broke that President Obama wanted to launch military strikes in Syria, I was sitting in a hotel in Jerusalem nearing the end of a fact-finding mission examining the situation on the ground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What I had recently witnessed was the failure of the US to uphold not only international…
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We are within reach of doing something unprecedented: stopping a U.S. war before it starts by means of a Congressional vote. We have public opinion our side including a majority of Democrats, a majority of Republicans, and a majority of Independents. We have MoveOn, CREDO, VoteVets, and Win Without War, among many other groups, active on the left;…
It’s a historic victory for peace, democracy and the rule of law that President Obama has agreed to seek Congressional authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) in Syria. As a Just Foreign Policy supporter, you can take some credit for this: we helped get the ball rolling when we put out an alert…
The office of Rep. Scott Rigell (VA-02) is circulating the following letter on Congressional war powers. It closes at noon Wednesday, August 28. Urge your Representative to sign the Rigell letter by calling the Congressional switchboard, 202-225-3121. There is a Roll Call article about this letter here: Get Authorization for Syria, House Lawmakers Say Dear Mr. President, We strongly…
On Sunday, Republican Sen. Bob Corker and Rep. Eliot Engel – a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war – told Fox News that President Obama should strike Syria first and get Congressional approval afterwards. That’s not how the U.S. Constitution says it should go. That’s not how the War Powers Resolution (which, despite the name "resolution," is binding U.S. law) says it…