Andrew Beale

In all the rounds of negotiations that have taken place between Israel and Palestine, the Palestinians have always lost out to Israel. With a new round of peace talks beginning, brokered by Secretary of State John Kerry, Palestine is set to lose…

In case you haven't heard, Obama made a big speech on Thursday. Making big speeches is something Obama's pretty good at and, despite criticism from some quarters, the big speech was well-received by big media, overall. The New York Times, for…

Eric Holder is in hot water yet again, this time for the completely illegal and totally unacceptable act of spying on the Associated Press. The basics of the story are that the AP reported that the CIA had foiled a terror plot and published a story…

U.S. foreign policy is a complicated game. Between drone strikes, continued presence in the middle east, gun-running in Mexico, and a host of other issues, it's easy to feel like you're on a rickety carnival ride where you can't tell which way is…

As I wrote several weeks ago, Obama made basically no effort to secure an actual peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians during his recent visit. When John Kerry also visited the region, it became clear that the new Secretary of State…

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made a trip to Israel last week to offer yet more military handouts to the region's most militarized country. Hagel announced the U.S. will provide Israel with a lot of high-tech airpower, including new missiles…

The U.S. has ordered 200 troops into Jordan to keep an eye on the Syrian border, and government sources are hinting that the number may soon explode into a full-scale invasion force of 20,000.  Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said, in announcing the…

Much of the media coverage of Secretary of State John Kerry's current round of trips to the Middle East has focused on his half-hearted attempts to kick-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But it's highly likely that the real purpose of his…

The hunger strike at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay expanded this week as detainees protested perceived unjust conditions at the camp. As the Washington Post reported, the impetus for the hunger strike is a new policy of searching Korans,…