In Congress yesterday, Representative John Tierney, Chair of the House National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, convened the first in a series of hearings to examine a US missile defense program that is out of control, straining relations with allies, and renewing an arms race with Russia.
This is the first comprehensive review of the […]

Let’s take a close look at Obama’s key economic advisors and you can quickly understand why his policies fly in the face of most progressives.
First, meet “the Ghoul”:

Barack Obama’s top economics adviser is a member of the super-secret Skull & Bones society of Yale University, of which George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and John […]

by James Zogby
 
Despite polls showing that the economy has eclipsed the Iraq war as the number one issue for US voters, the war itself, and as Barack Obama rightly terms it, “the mindset that got us into this war,” will remain critical issues in the 2008 presidential contest. Here’s why:
 
While Iraq has largely fallen […]