From this week’s Bill Moyers’ Journal:
As the exploding crisis in Iraq spotlights once again the tragic record of American policy in the Middle East, Bill speaks with investigative journalist Charles Lewis, whose new book, 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity details the many government falsehoods that have led us into the current nightmare.
The American Conservative with The American Prospect and the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM (EDT), Washington, DC, free admission. Register here.
Breakfast and refreshments provided. Please register to secure a spot!
After more than a decade of the War on Terror, a broad new foreign policy consensus is emerging that favors prudence, diplomacy, and the rule of law. The New Internationalism conference will build on this framework, addressing concrete ways for the U.S. to maintain stability without war, reform the national security state, and negotiate shifting political and economic realities.
8:30am Welcome: Charles L. Glaser, George Washington University Institute for Security and Conflict Studies and Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative
8:45am Threats and Responses: How the U.S. can maintain stability in the long term without war.
Daniel Drezner, Washington Post and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
William Lind, The American Conservative
Matt Duss, Center for American Progress and The American Prospect
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative
9:45am The Case for Restraint: Barry R. Posen, MIT Security Studies Program
10:45am Break
11:15am National Security State Overreach and Reform
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel
Adam Serwer, MSNBC.com
Samuel Goldman, The American Conservative and George Washington University
12:15pm Political Realities: Prospects for realism and reform in a new economic and political environment.
John B. Judis, The New Republic
Michael Cohen, Century Foundation
Christopher Preble, Cato Institute
Robert W. Merry, The National Interest
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke today with Fox Radio’s Alan Colmes about the Bowe Bergdahl case.
Justin was at his best, check it out:
