Executive Director, John Isaacs, Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Kate Gould & National Iranian American Council’s Jamal Abdi join The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss first-step deal with Iran

Do They Even Know What’s In The Bill? By Andrew Sullivan January 17, 2014 In the to and fro on the AIPAC sanctions bill, it’s easy to get lost about how precisely the law would immediately kill the negotiations. Edward Levine has a terrific primer on why that would happen, citing various, specific parts of […]

Nuclear Security and Omnibus Legislation: What’s Up and What’s Down Douglas Guarino January 16, 2014 The spending bill the House passed on Wednesday includes a boost for nuclear weapons and a nonproliferation funding cut — but it’s not quite so simple. A close read of the omnibus bill for fiscal 2014 appropriations shows that while […]

Communications director, James Lewis joins Voices of Russia to discuss reports of U.S. testing of agricultural biological weapons in early 1960s.

Congress’s Iranian nuclear sanctions proposal could sabotage negotiations Sen. Robert Menendez’s commentary advocated an initiative that would ensure failure. If the “Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act” should pass over a promised presidential veto, it almost certainly would scuttle the negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program. Mr. Menendez did not address the fact that six nations […]