| Jun 11, 2014 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama’s recent attempt to define foreign policy failed to accurately reflect how Washington intends to end one of the biggest quagmires of our time: Afghanistan. “You are the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into...
| Jun 26, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyI remember when I first started watching Mad Men. Like most of America, I got hooked. How could I not? The glitz and glamour of 1960s Manhattan was irresistible. But from the very first episode, I knew there was something deeply wrong with this world — the...
| Jun 14, 2010 | UncategorizedThe Hill reported Friday on a congressional panel, commissioned by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), which proposed a new mindset toward defense: The Sustainable Defense Task Force, a commission of scholars from a broad ideological spectrum…laid out actions the...
| Nov 24, 2009 | Peace / SecurityThought the Bush years were over? Not so fast. The main “accomplishment” of those years, apart from getting our country handed over to the big banks and corporations, was of course launching two wars. The cost of those wars so far is staggering, but these...