John Kerry

Obama, Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid are asking a lot of progressives who are skeptical over the rush to bomb Syria. Aside from asking them to overlook the lack of definitive proof that it was Assad who used the chemical weapons and to overlook the fact that the strategy to punish him is fatally flawed, they're also asking them to forget about their own integrity and-- in some cases, more importantly-- their own constituents' expressed desires about keeping the U.S. out of another pointless Mideast war.

By Dan Beeton | CEPR Americas Blog | September 5, 2013

Peter B. Collins Presents Gareth Porter

By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | September 3, 2013

In a dazzling display of chutzpah, the White House is demanding that Congress demonstrate blind trust in a U.S. intelligence establishment headed by James Clapper, a self-confessed perjurer.

Who recalls Rand Paul, possibly high-- no one knows for sure-- telling a bunch of incredulous Republicans last month that "we're going to win when we look like America.

By Craig Murray | August 31, 2013

By Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment | September 3, 2013

By Justin Sink – The Hill – 09/02/13

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said Monday that the administration’s argument that letting Syria’s use of sarin gas last month go unchecked would hurt U.S. security was “not logical” and did not “make any sense.”

By Robert Bridge | RT | September 03, 2013 

The shock and awe that has greeted President Obama’s decision to get congressional consent to wage war in Syria underscores the problem with US foreign policy, not to mention our mainstream media machine.

Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
 
 
by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh       MintPress News