Does Hillary's Silence on Iran Deal Show Neocon Pull on Her Presidential Run?
People have noticed the silence of former Secretary of State and widely presumed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by President Obama and...
View ArticleWhy Hasn't Sen. Elizabeth Warren Backed the Iran Deal?
There's a belief among both supporters and critics of diplomacy with Iran that Senate Democrats are afraid to speak up in support of the Administration's successful multilateral diplomacy with Iran...
View ArticleDid Pro-Diplomacy Backlash Stop Steny Hoyer from Nixing Obama's Deal to...
A New York Times editorial on December 9 warned that while "either side could undermine the November interim agreement, and with it the best chance in 30 years for a genuine thaw in Iranian-American...
View ArticleSenator Elizabeth Warren Endorses Interim Iran Nuclear Deal
Just over a week ago, Just Foreign Policy issued a very simple, reasonable demand: that Massachusetts Senator and progressive champion Elizabeth Warren endorse the interim nuclear deal that the Obama...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly Doesn't Take Gretchen Carlson's Bait on Iran Deal
I turned to Fox News and there was President Obama explaining the outline of the Iranian nuclear agreement. When he was finished, Gretchen Carlson was there with the "expert" to explain all,...
View ArticleIran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Said ‘Death to America’. So, What?
As the peaceful negotiations over a nuclear deal with Iran happily make their way to a resolution, many opponents of the current deal (or any deal with Iran) raise irrelevant alarm bells over some of...
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I'm Shocked, Shocked to Discover That Iran Has Hardliners, Too
Good news for John McCain Today, fainting couches everywhere were creaking under the weight of warhawks and True 'Muricans as news media reported that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had...
View ArticleNetanyahu tweets childish propaganda cartoon demonizing Iran - gets shredded...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put up a childish cartoon in a tweet he sent out to criticize the impending Iran Nuclear Deal. The responses he got on Twitter ripped his simplistic propaganda...
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The Absurdity of Mainstream Media and Diplomacy with Iran. Thoughts of Two...
(LWMC)July 16 2015In browsing comments of people I respect and work with in today's social media world I often run across observations and comments that must be shared. Today was another one of those...
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IL-Sen: Tammy Duckworth (D) Slams Mark Kirk's (R) Hitler Comparison On Iran...
Received this e-mail today from Rep. Tammy Duckworth's (D. IL) U.S. Senate campaign: Mark Kirk made deeply inflammatory comments about the proposed Iran nuclear agreement yesterday, saying that what...
View ArticleWill President Scott Walker Ask Congress for Authorization Before He Bombs Iran?
People who claim that they have an alternative to the Iran nuclear deal besides war might want to check in with Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, widely judged to be one of the three "serious"...
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Naysayers at it again, money, money, money, Let's kill the deal!
Negotiations for Iran Nuclear Deal Money, money, money, we have plenty of money to kill the Iran Nuclear Deal. There is finally a shot at getting something going, with Iran, to help get them to stop...
View ArticleIs Scott Walker Less of an Extremist Than Donald Trump?
Count me among the Democrats who are totally delighted that Donald Trump is running for the Republican nomination for President, that he is a frontrunner in polls of Republican voters, that he cannot...
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FL-Sen: Murphy (D) To Talk About The Iran Nuke Deal With The Center For...
We have a big primary in the Florida U.S. Senate race this year. We have two Democrats, Rep. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson, with two different voting records. This is a primary that is weighing...
View ArticleObama Earns His Nobel
From The Progressive PopulistPresident Obama finally earned the Nobel Peace Prize he was given in 2009 and it’s driving Republicans crazy.Secretary of State John Kerry also deserves credit for leading...
View ArticleWhy Is the New York Times Swiftboating J Street?
On July 23, the New York Times published an op-ed by Shmuel Rosner, political editor at The Jewish Journal and a senior fellow at The Jewish People Policy Institute, which made the following...
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Huckabee's monolithic view will get him shoved to the exit door
The oven doors in a crematorium in Auschwitz. Oswiecim, Poland, 1989 I hate to give these clowns more oxygen, but this one hits too close to home. For Christian evangelicals like Mike Huckabee, support...
View Article400,000 signatures against war with Iran
I’m Zack Malitz, and I’m a campaign manager at CREDO Action. This is CREDO’s first blog post on Daily Kos at our new group, where my colleagues and I will be posting diaries about campaigns we’re...
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The Holocaust, slavery, and the Republicans’ routinely repulsive rhetoric
In the course of American and world history, slavery and the Holocaust are sui generis cataclysms. Any comparisons—especially casual ones—to the Nazi genocide of European Jewry and the bondage and...
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