Russ Feingold

Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Russ Feingold presided over a joint hearing of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women’s Issues and the Subcommittee on African Affairs, WednesdayThe hearing was titled, “Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones,” and focused specifically on Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). CONFRONTING RAPE AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE...Read Full Story

The White House/flickrcc Print Comments More America’s war in Afghanistan and post-war in Iraq were barely blips on the campaign radar this election, but foreign policy “could well re-emerge as a front-burner and contentious issue in very short order,” Peter Feaver writes at Shadow Government. Obama will have fewer national security moderates in his party to rely on when selling his Afghan strategy. The result is that “this election reverses a...Read Full Story

Posted by David Zephyr in General Discussion: Presidency As the dust clears, as our fingers hopefully grow tired of finger-pointing, I want to offer some perspective from an old guy who's had over 40 years of activism within the Democratic Party. Most of all, I want to tell you that the world did not come to an end last night, and that even though the corporate media wants to dance on the grave of the Democratic Party and President Obama, it will be our side that will be doing the dancing...Read Full Story

In trying to get one-time Obama supporters to volunteer for the November election, I often hear this refrain: "The Democrats have sold us out. I’m tired of their spinelessness, their subservience to corporate interests. I’m staying home to teach them a lesson." Not everyone responds this way, but enough do to make me worry, because if these people don’t show up and work to get others to vote, it could make the difference in race after neck-and-neck race, as a similar withdrawal of Democratic...Read Full Story

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