take a look at this... real news editor paul jay talks with former cia analyst ray mcgovern about the u.s. machinations that led up to the mess that characterizes our current involvement in afghanistan... it seems that we - the u.s. - have this annoying proclivity for repeatedly shooting ourselves i...

Excerpts and, of course, my comments in bracketed italics: Middle East Priorities For Jan. 21 ...When Obama takes office in two months, he will find a number of difficult foreign policy issues competing for his attention, each with strong advocates among his advisers. We believe that the Arab-Israel...

If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed one his first day in office; George W......

If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed one his first day in office; George W......

In July 2007, when the possibility that Barack Obama might win the presidency was still just a gleam in the candidate's eye, he met with former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to ask for some advice. But he wasn't after the usual campaign position papers or sound bites. Obama was alrea...

Slater Bakhtavar During the 1970s, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - who had acceded to the monarchist governmental leadership role present throughout Iran’s history - implemented economic, educational and social reforms. In the midst of these democratic reforms, the Shah and the Iranian people cel...

In his May 27 op-ed column, "Worldviews in Need of Merger," Richard Cohen tried too hard to be evenhanded about the foreign policy views of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain....

Zbigniew Brzezinski says that since we talked to Likud, we should talk to Hamas. And Kevin Spacey, who has trouble keeping his disputed primary states straight, suggests that his "Recount" plays it straight, despite evidence to the contrary. All that and more on today's Morning Joe. In rev...

Mark Finklestein over at NewsBusters seems baffled that Mika Brzezinski would summon Pat Buchanan to the airwaves, Pokemon-style, to defend her father from a scurrilous mention in the Jerusalem Post. Mika’s father is the former Carter-admin national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski about w...

Like choosing Rosie O'Donnell to vouch that someone isn't a 9-11 conspiracy nut? Of all the people Mika Brzezinski might have selected as a character reference for her father when he was portrayed as a problem for Obama with Jewish voters, Pat Buchanan isn't the first one who springs to mind. Yet th...