Middle East

The complete text of the U.S. government's assessment of the chemical weapons attack in Syria.

We have to reject the unjustified use of fear and imaginary threats to the American public as acceptable reasons to bomb other nations. Facts, reason and principle should be the only tools to win over the public on an argument for war.

Why do media pundits insist that Obama has power over Egypt when the amount of aid we give is fractional and easily replaced by "our allies" in the Middle East?

President Obama will deliver his 2013 State of the Union Address tonight at 6:00 pm PST (9:00 pm EST) and you're invited to join us for our live chat here beginning at 5:30 PM PST. Hope to see you then!

In a surprise move today, Senator John McCain has demanded at a press conference that a special Senate committee be formed to investigate his own sanity...or as Senator McCain put it, "What do I know and when did I know it? And why? And where are my keys?"

No this is not hyperbole.  Like all Republicans, Romney hates America when we have a Democratic president.  His recent shameless politicizing responding to the deaths of American ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and some of his staff starkly illustrates this hatred....

Despite GOP protests to the contrary, when it comes to Spiking the Ball, W is the All Star!

There were so many worthy nominees deserving this PlanetPOV award for The Biggest Political F#%! Up of 2011, let's just say that there are no winners, only losers and bigger losers.

  America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the...

With a wiser and less duplicitous administration, the U.S. could have left Afghanistan in 2002.