Israel and — to a lesser extent — Saudi Arabia continue to dictate much of U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast, especially animosity toward Iran. But the Iran nuclear deal may change the dynamic toward a more balanced strategy at least in…
Category: Right Wing
MLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
From the Archive: A year before his death, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. broke with many political allies by warning that the Vietnam War was inflicting a “spiritual death” on America, casting King outside mainstream opinion circles which called his advice naive…
The Battle over Dr. King’s Message
MLK and the Curse of ‘Moderation’
Playing Games with War Deaths
How Neocons Banished Realism
WPost’s Deadly Lack of Realism
Will Reckless Saudis Seek War with Iran?
GOP Reaps What Was Sown
Since the 1960s, the Republican Party has sought out and corralled the angry white vote which was back-lashing against the civil rights movement and black progress. But now that disaffected base is turning on the wealthy GOP elites and no…
Diplomatic Sanity Prevails with Iran
Before President Obama’s State of the Union Address, U.S. cable news blasted out bulletins about Iran seizing American sailors, as Obama’s critics blasted him. But the U.S. intrusion into Iranian waters was quickly explained and the sailors returned, a sign of…