Tag Archives: Foreign Policy

Secular Talk: Video: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton First U.S. Senate Floor Speech

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Rik Schneider

. I saw about twenty-minutes of Senator Tom Cotton’s first U.S. Senate floor speech. (Thank God for C-SPAN) And twenty-minutes was about all as I could take from the freshman Senator, who sounded like a freshman in his first ever … Continue reading →

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Frost/Nixon The Complete Interviews: Foreign Policy

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Rik Schneider

The real genius of the Nixon Presidency was the foreign policy. President Nixon and his National Security Director, could simply see things happening twenty-years in advance. I don’t believe we’ve ever had two people that high up in the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Salon: Bill Curry: ‘We Can Stop The Neo-Cons: Here’s What a Truly Progressive Foreign Policy Would Look Like’

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Derik Schneider

Source:Salon Magazine I hate to break it to anyone who calls them self a Progressive today, but the Progressives gave us the U.S. Department of Defense. They gave us the national security state. Which includes things like the CIA, FBI, … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite: 3/17/77: A Look at Foreign Affairs and Energy Policy

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat This was right before President Jimmy Carter gave his famous foreign policy and human rights speech at Notre Dame in the spring of 1977. The first United States President to ever at least during the Cold War … Continue reading →

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The Hitchens Archive: Video: Christopher Hitchens & Eric Alterman Discussing Politics in 2008

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat Just to comment on Eric Alterman’s first point about Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens was never a Conservative, but perhaps a Neoconservative on foreign policy at least after 9/11. And as they both said neoconservatism and conservatism are two … Continue reading →

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PBS NewsHour: Shields & Brooks: The Flagging Labor Force, Congressional Mid-Terms & Foreign Policy

Posted on May 9, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  I agree with Mark Shields and David Brooks when they say that the jobs report is good news and a positive step.  If we get a few more reports like this it will be good for Democrats … Continue reading →

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NBC News: Meet The Press- Senator Robert Taft (1952)

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Rik Schneider

Source:NBC News– U.S. Senator Robert Taft (Republican, Ohio) on NBC News Meet The Press, in 1952 Source:The Daily Post “Meet The Press. January 20, 1952. NBC-TV net, WNBT-TV, New York City audio aircheck. Sponsored by: Revere Copper and Brass. The … Continue reading →

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Longines Chronoscope: Dr. Norman Thomas From- Democratic Socialist Foreign Policy (1952)

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Derik Schneider

Source:FreeState MD What I respect about Norman Thomas even though he was a Socialist and we probably agree on almost nothing as it relates to economic policy, is that he was a real Democrat. A real American Democrat, a real … Continue reading →

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