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President Barack Obama is clearly trying to get out of the corner he has painted himself into regarding Syria. The bottom line of the president’s speech on Syria tonight is he doesn’t [...]

67 Questions from the Progressive Caucus to President    Yesterday (Monday, September 9th), the Congressional Progressive Caucus sent the White House a list of 67 questions as a follow-up to [...]

 http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/19167965/article-Shaky-assumptions-about-military-spending? By Betsy Crites HERALD-SUN GUEST  COLUMNIST Fear can be a great motivator – and a great [...]

So, I was planning to write a post-NATO Summit op-ed (and we may well have more reports, photos, etc. on our terrific work in Chicago soon) but hadn’t gotten around to it. Which is just as [...]

The debate rages in the Senate on ratification of the New START treaty, as we wait for a vote from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The opposition claims that Obama’s vision of a [...]

I was 17 the first time I took a stand against nuclear weapons. The US was planning to build the neutron bomb near my hometown in Colorado, and I was outraged at the risk the bomb plant posed to [...]

As a prelude to the passage of a new round of sanctions, on Wednesday diplomats from the U.S., Russia and France dismissed the nuclear swap deal negotiated by Iran, Turkey and Brazil. A few hours [...]

Big news today from the summit in Russia. Presidents Obama and Medvedev issued a “joint understanding” agreeing to reduce each countries’ strategic offensive nuclear weapons [...]

By: Fareed Zakaria (editor of Newsweek International) http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/1 Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize [...]

by John Zmirak Students of history will always find the month of August a little ominous. In August 1920, the Red Army invading Poland (led by neoconservative hero Leon Trotsky) nearly captured [...]