Category: Foreign Policy
“60 Minutes” Goes Soft
by DeWayne Wickham | Dec 3, 2015 | Foreign PolicyPhoto Credit: Lawrence Jackson Am I the only one who cringed while watching last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” softball interview of Alan Gross, the American operative who was held five years in a Cuban military hospital after getting caught smuggling forbidden communications equipment into Cuba? Five times in 2009, Gross traveled to that Caribbean nation ostensibly […]
Hell in a Small Place: The Saudi-U.S. War in Yemen
by Belén Fernández | Dec 1, 2015 | Foreign Policy, National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Hugh Macleod / IRIN The travel warning for Yemen the U.S. State Department issued in April 2015 describes a “high security threat level . . . due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.” Citing continuing activity by organizations like Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the warning specifies that the “U.S. government […]
Gimme Shelter: Hatred of Refugees is an American Tradition
by Rick Perlstein | Nov 19, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Politics, Rickipediaphoto: Josh Zakary Republican governors and presidential candidates are tripping over each other to pronounce their horror at the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees, lest some terrorist slips through. Which is, of course, insane: what aspiring suicide bomber would submit himself to the 18-month to three-year vetting process it takes to get refugee status when a […]
Bibi Back in Washington
by The Washington Spectator | Nov 9, 2015 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOn November 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu returns to Washington, this time to the White House at the invitation of Barack Obama. Netanyahu’s previous trip, in early March of this year, was a foreign policy coup for Speaker of the House John Boehner, who invited Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the White House––and an […]
James Woods’s “Bengahzi” Spectacular
by Hannah Gais | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Foreign Policy, PoliticsConservative media may have taken yesterday’s utterly pointless Benghazi hearing and turned it into a nonsensical firestorm, but it was social media that turned it into an ode to stupidity. The spectacle was particularly apparent on Twitter. Last night, on the right side of Twitter’s homepage in its “trending topics” section for Washington, D.C., was the […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety