Recent revelations by Think Progress concerning the contributions of foreign corporate donors to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which are helping to fund American political advertisements are not deterring the Chamber from expanding and reinforcing its efforts to shape US politics and policies in the interests of foreign corporate entities.
The newest addition to the US Chamber’s secretive web of potential election donors : a new joint US-Israel “business council.”
On Think Progress’s Wonk Room, Matt Duss reviews Carnegie associate Karim Sadjadpour’s Foreign Policy article about which historical model best fits U.S.-Iran relations. (Eli covered Sadjadpour’s piece last week.)
Duss agrees with Sadjadpour’s conclusion that the Soviet Union is the best historical model to apply to Iran, but adds something: If [...]
A new poll by 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair shows that Americans are very hesitant to go to war with Iran — with a quarter of respondents saying that “nothing” could make them “support a war with Iran.”
CBS News conducted a phone survey of 906 randomly selected participants in September, asking for the first [...]
On Fox News Sunday, a bellicose Bill Kristol predicted President Obama “will end up a year from now using force against Iran,” but Obama just doesn’t want to signal that now.
Kristol believes that during this phase of diplomacy and sanctions, President Barack Obama should be talking about a military strike on Iran in order to [...]
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