U.S. lawmakers who may have been silent for the last 22 months are now speaking out publicly and blaming Israel for the starvation and famine conditions in the Gaza Strip. On CBS’s Face the Nation this Sunday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and long-time Israel supporter, slammed Jerusalem for Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis, declaring that "Israel is starving Palestinians with impunity.” Gazans are “systematically being st...| Responsible Statecraft
After three years, the mystery of who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 has, for all intents and purposes, been solved. But unlike the dramatic unmasking during a Scooby-Doo episode or the riveting declaration of "who done it" in front of a dinner party of sweating suspects in a Poirot mystery, the arrest of a former Ukrainian military officer accused of leading a team to sabotage the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines on Sept. 26, 2022, has landed like a cell phone...| Responsible Statecraft
The 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025 shattered long-held assumptions, thrusting U.S.–Iran relations into uncharted territory. The conflict, a dramatic escalation of decades-long tensions, has left the Middle East teetering on the edge of broader instability. As the dust settles, the United States faces a critical juncture in its approach to Iran — one that could redefine the region for decades. Four plausible scenarios loom large, each carrying profound implications for global s...| Responsible Statecraft
Members of Congress are wrapping up August recess in their home districts and preparing to return to Capitol Hill. And if public polling is any indication, they’ve been facing constituents who want to know why their taxpayer dollars are enabling the carnage in Gaza, and what Congress is doing to put an end to it. If they are smart, lawmakers can work to end U.S. complicity by supporting the “Block the Bombs” bill, a proposal to block sales of bombs and explosive shells to Israel. Introd...| Responsible Statecraft
President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders in the White House Monday to discuss a framework for a deal to end the war. The big takeaway: that all parties appear to agree that the U.S. and Europe would provide some sort of postwar security guarantees to deter another Russian invasion. What that might look like is still undefined. Trump also suggested an agreement would require “possible exchanges of territory” and consider the “w...| Responsible Statecraft
Israel’s 12-day war on Iran in June shocked the world, and led to the U.S. striking three of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But Trita Parsi, the Quincy Institute's Executive Vice President, stresses that this conflict was no one-off. Rather, another, much greater war between Israel and Iran may well occur — and that it will likely involve the United States. This would not be in America's interest, nor is it what Trump campaigned on when he was running for president. Instead, the U.S. must p...| Responsible Statecraft
After much delay, Marco Rubio’s State Department finally released the 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, known internally as the Human Rights Reports (HRRs). These congressionally mandated reports are usually published in early spring about the events of the previous year. In addition to the significant lag in their release, the 2024 reports are drastically shorter and cover a much narrower range of human rights abuses than in previous years. They no longer include prison condi...| Responsible Statecraft
In Alaska he found reality: he is now embracing an agreement without demanding a ceasefire first, which would have never worked anyway.| Responsible Statecraft
The much anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and President Putin ended earlier than expected, but the two leaders addressed the press afterwards and appeared amicable while hinting at progress on an "agreement." But no deal, nor a framework for a deal was announced. They did not take questions afterwards. Trump, who had said earlier that without a ceasefire at the end of the day he might slap Russia with new sanctions, did not go there. If anything they broached the issue of a ...| Responsible Statecraft
In early August, Israeli energy company NewMed announced a record-breaking $35 billion deal to supply natural gas to Egypt, nearly tripling its current imports and binding Cairo’s energy future to its neighbor until at least 2040. Though Egyptian officials were quick to frame this not as a new agreement but as an “amendment” to a 2019 deal, the sheer scale of the deal — the largest in Israel’s export history — is indicative of a deepening and dangerous dependence on its neighbor f...| Responsible Statecraft
Mixed indicators signal wartime growth has plateaued| Responsible Statecraft
A meeting in Alaska, while putting land concessions on the table, is an essential first step. Here's why.| Responsible Statecraft
FEMA money to be contingent on pledge against any boycotts or divestment of Israeli companies| Responsible Statecraft
There is a difference, and what is going on today will lead us to a much darker place| Responsible Statecraft
As her Free Press is poised to seal a $200 million deal with the mainstream news giant CBS, let us reflect on why| Responsible Statecraft
6 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Visit to Whitney Plantation give you tips on which tour to choose, plus resources on how to learn more about the history of this sacred place.| Whitney Plantation
Neocons and hawks are crowing today but the president would be smart to remember 'America First' means doing things differently| Responsible Statecraft
Hundreds of billions of dollars have gone to aiding Taipei but geography is still the island's best defense| Responsible Statecraft
The former national security adviser was reportedly coordinating with Israel to do it| Responsible Statecraft
After similar outreach to Sunnis, the pontiff's 2021 meeting with Shia's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani transcended boundaries and fostered co-existence| Responsible Statecraft
New leadership brings SDF into central govt, leaving little reason for Washington to keep protecting it| Responsible Statecraft
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He's had some dumb ideas too but he's running circles around the left| Responsible Statecraft
He deserves special gratitude from the Ukrainian and European establishments for telling the truth before things go way too far| Responsible Statecraft
Israel seems to forget that Nasrallah was a more effective version of the last Hezbollah leader it assassinated in 1992| Responsible Statecraft
As Biden cracks down on Russian interference in our elections, a look at what the Pentagon has been doing overseas| Responsible Statecraft
There are mere weeks left in the session and major elections. Don't expect a ton, save for political bluster.| Responsible Statecraft
The military is already upgrading warheads capable of fighting a war with both China and Russia simultaneously| Responsible Statecraft
Peter Thiel's Big Data intel company just bagged a high profile former lawmaker. Just another day in Silicon Valley.| Responsible Statecraft
Video: Washington hawks may be taking things to extreme, at what cost?| Responsible Statecraft
Putin’s aces — non-Western countries unaligned with the US — are also preventing him from upping the ante. Here’s how.| Responsible Statecraft
The following cases represent a small fraction of potential human rights violations committed with American planes, shells, and bombs| Responsible Statecraft
Defense industry-funded think tanks like the Hudson Institute, apparently.| Responsible Statecraft
Biden's announcement of resumed offensive weapons sales to the Kingdom says it all| Responsible Statecraft
No forward thinking and a defense industry that only thinks of profits, are a bad mix| Responsible Statecraft
Perhaps this is what Israel wants, as Yahya Sinwar is much more hardline and less likely to support a ceasefire deal than his predecessor.| Responsible Statecraft
Washington will give Israel's Netanyahu whatever he wants, whether it's in America's interest or not. Who will say no?| Responsible Statecraft
Tel Aviv bombed a vital Yemeni port in retribution for an earlier militant drone strike, but if history holds, it won't matter| Responsible Statecraft
The idea that he has been running the world betrays a dangerous arrogance about his importance — and current reality| Responsible Statecraft
Instead of deftly dividing our adversaries, we have bumbled our way toward uniting them against us| Responsible Statecraft