Outside the Beltway

For a peace envoy, Blair has some nonpeaceful ideas.

The selective application of international law is here to stay.

Australia’s ABC News has video smuggled out by an activist showing widespread famine in North Korea, including filthy children begging in the streets and evidence that even soldiers are not getting enough to eat.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Matt Eckel’s takeaway from my Atlantic piece on How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology is that we need a peer competitor.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Amnesty International is drawing attention to capital punishment in the United States, with bad math and a credulous media on its side.

So much for not getting invaded…

We’re heading towards a future of higher food prices and more hunger.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

Brief takes on foreign affairs

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

McCain brings up “regime change” in re: the DKRP and China apparently isn’t doing enough.

What sort of response is required to Pyongyang’s ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula?

Tensions are on the rise again on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea shelled a South Korean island.

North Korea has unveiled to the world a new nuclear processing facility that puts back on the table the question of just what we should, or can, do about the fact that a rogue state possesses nuclear weapons and wants to build more.

Conservative Republicans who are typically deferential to the military are ignoring the advice of the military leadership on the new START Treaty.

Democratic consultants Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell offer some free advice for President Obama. It’s worth every penny.

Kim Jong Il’s reclusive third son is now on a path to inherit leadership of the country founded by his Grandfather.

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.

More odd developments inside the modern day version of the Hermit Kingdom

If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?

Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?