Foreign Policy & National Security

Posted by | May 8, 2012
National Security Caucus

Our moderated issue caucuses are aimed at forming greater strategic alliances on progressive issues including the environment, labor, LGBT community, immigration, women's issues, social justice and education. Sponsored by Ploughshares...

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Posted by | April 8, 2012
COINTELPRO 2.0: Surveillance, National Security and Our Eroding Civil Liberties

Our national security infrastructure continues to evolve in ways that erode civil liberties protections built over decades. Between the continued renewals of the Patriot Act, the recent passage of the...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Intervention, Isolation and the Future of Progressive Security Policy

The long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the economic crisis at home, have soured many progressives on foreign policy ideals long held dear by liberals: human rights, multilateral...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Safeguarding Democracy: Innovations in Technology and Human Rights

The future is now. Activists now have access to unlikely tools: satellite technology to deter mass atrocities in South Sudan, civil society leaders in Iran and Southeast Asia distributing encrypted...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Iran 2012: Iraq 2003 All Over Again?

Despite broad opposition from military and security leaders in the United States and internationally, the sponsors of the Iraq War have attempted to fear-monger their way into another costly Middle...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Military Sexual Trauma: The Women’s War

The Department of Veterans Affairs has released data estimating that one in three women has been sexually assaulted and/or raped while on active service, double the rate for civilians, according...

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