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WikiLeaks continues to shed light on the US strategy in Afghanistan. According to the Washington Post, the documents show just how little the war in Afghanistan is about hunting down al-Qaeda [...]

This week, a Washington Post writer called out Republican hypocrisy by examining Republican support for The Moscow Treaty, negotiated under President Bush. The Moscow Treaty passed unanimously in [...]

Conservative politicians and pundits have been working to normalize the idea of military strikes on Iran. The newest ploy is to help open the way for an Israeli strike. If Israel did attack Iran, [...]

Drew Conway, an NYU political science graduate student, has created some remarkable graphs from the enormous amount of information provided by Wikileaks on the war in Afghanistan. His latest [...]

This year marked the 65th anniversary of the days the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 9th, 1945. Over 55,000 people from 73 countries attended the [...]

The Prague Project compiled this hilarious chart in response to the über right-wing Heritage Foundation’s claims that “the list of experts [against New START] is large”: One of [...]

Last week, Republicans introduced H.R. 1553, a resolution that would provide support for Israel to use “all means necessary” against Iran “including the use of military force.” Almost a third of [...]

Take a moment to read a great post by Nazish Brohi of The Dawn Blog in response to last week’s Time magazine cover story. Nazish Brohi draws the attention to the fact that the U.S. [...]

While some are already claiming the effectiveness of US and UN imposed sanctions, Iranian officials are whipping up propaganda to use sanctions to crack down on dissidents. The National Iranian [...]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry announced his decision this week to delay the vote on the New START treaty until mid-September. The delay has a lot to do with partisan [...]