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Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Jeffrey Cavanaugh is a former MintPress political analyst and columnist specializing in international relations and US policy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, specializing in International Security and Conflict. He has worked as a political science and public administration lecturer at Mississippi State University.

Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Law Is Antithetical To American Values

New “religious freedom” laws are a last-ditch effort to fend off threats to traditional conservatism, which has been continuously upended for 50 years. Yet they’re bound to make these socio-cultural backwaters even less appealing places to live, work and invest.

April 10th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
April 10th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
A man in the audience waves an American flag after Ted Cruz announced his campaign for president at Liberty University founded by the late ultra-conservative preacher Jerry Falwell, in Lynchburg, Va.

A man in the audience waves an American flag after Ted Cruz announced his campaign for president at Liberty University founded by the late ultra-conservative Christian preacher Jerry Falwell, in Lynchburg, Va. Revolutions, which seem inevitable in hindsight, are often hard to predict because the forces that propel them are, out of necessity,

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Herrenvolk Israel: Netanyahu And The Decline Of Israeli Liberalism

What America wants to see in Israel is a plucky little liberal democracy bravely standing up for its persecuted people. Instead, it’s a right-wing bully — bigoted, arrogant, aggressive, self-righteous, militant and ultimately very dangerous.

March 25th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
March 25th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he visits a settlement construction site in Har Homa

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks as he visits a settlement site in  Har Homa, east Jerusalem, Monday March 16, 2015, a day ahead of legislative elections. Netanyahu won his fourth term as prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory in the latest round of Israeli elections raises a fundamental issue that very few here in the

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Since Selma And Vietnam

It’s been 50 years since the march on Selma and U.S. Marines landing in South Vietnam. Yet little has changed, as domestic issues take a backseat to American-led wars being fought farther and farther from our shores.

March 16th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
March 16th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Selma 50th

A police officer takes a photo after thousands of people made a symbolic walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Sunday, March 8, 2015, in Selma, Ala. The weekend marked the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday,' a civil rights march in which protestors were beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma. March

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Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Israel’s Nukes?

Netanyahu wants to talk about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but why isn’t anybody talking about Israel’s not-so-secret arsenal?

March 5th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
March 5th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel shows an illustration as he describes his concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions during his address to the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to Washington, D.C., and appeared before a joint session of

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India’s Tilt Toward America And Israel

While China continues to flex its growing military muscle in Asia, India’s cultivating allies and building up its military kit in a way that poses a serious threat to Chinese power in the region that few others there can match.

March 3rd, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
March 3rd, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Barack Obama, Narendra Modi

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, smiles as he talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, during a reception in the Mughal Gardens of the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. While the American people remain distracted by goings on in the Middle East, recent events in Sri Lanka

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When Christian Slaughtered Christian: The Horror Of Holy War

Only someone without any clue about the horrors of the history of Christian religious wars would call on Obama now to accept and use the language of Holy War. Yet, as study after study shows, nuance isn’t the right wing’s strong suit.

February 24th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
February 24th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
baptism by fire

The "baptism by fire" of Old Believer leader Avvakum in 1682 President Barack Obama drew fire from his critics on the right when at a recent Washington prayer breakfast he urged understanding of goings on in the Middle East today by referencing Christianity’s own sordid history of oppression and violence. “Remember,” intoned the president,

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America’s Need For Hero Kings

Pliant, weak tyrants like Jordan’s King Abdullah II are the mask — poorly fitting though it happens to be — that keeps the charade going that the U.S. is, in fact, the good guy.

February 17th, 2015
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
February 17th, 2015
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Barack Obama, King Abdullah II

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Jordan's King Abdullah II during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. If you’ve been keeping track of the latest developments in the ongoing battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East, you may or may not have noticed

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