By Graham E. Fuller – Responsible Statecraft (*) The U.S. leadership must have set some kind of new record in managing to personally insult the leadership of the two other great powers of the world within 48 hours of each other… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President Joe Biden, met for… Continue Reading
EDITORIAL How can the west continue to do business with the man who approved Jamal Khashoggi’s murder? As details emerged of the gruesome 2018 murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of the exiled dissident and journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, most… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and affiliated communist governments. Things changed a little in the early… Continue Reading
By Simon Tisdall* – The Guardian The secretary of state has laid political booby traps for Biden in a diplomatic onslaught – with the aim of winning the White House While all eyes are on Donald Trump and his Capitol… Continue Reading
TomDispatch* Hmmm… let me see if I’ve gotten this straight. In his last days in office, Donald Trump is “ending” America’s forever wars (as he long promised he would do) by leaving 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan, a similar number… Continue Reading
Lloyd Green* – The Guardian In addition to Trump mulling a self-pardon, he’s also considering family members and Rudy Giuliani – but Barr’s words may come back to haunt him On Monday, Donald Trump announced the exit of William Barr… Continue Reading
Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) (Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com) Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US government’s state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).… Continue Reading
The National Security Archive – George Washington University Edited by Peter Kornbluh —————————- Nixon’s “Make the Economy Scream” Order issued 50 years ago Genesis of Nixon’s Infamous Regime Change Directive on Chile Recorded in Declassified Documentation Washington, D.C., September 15, 2020… Continue Reading
By Giles Tremlett* – The Guardian During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice The… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback and James Carden (*) Independent Media Institute Trump’s rise has led to unity in the ranks opposing his foreign policy The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have thrown… Continue Reading
By Paul Jay * – TheAnalysis.news Paul Jay Hi, my name is Paul Jay, and welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. It’s not often I get a chance to talk to an American general, okay, I’ve never had a chance to talk… Continue Reading
By Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would… Continue Reading
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are… Continue Reading
By Daniel Villarreal – Newsweek Dr. Anthony Fauci, the scientific face of America’s pandemic response, dismissed the theory that coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, contradicting the president and his Secretary of State in an escalating confrontation with China.… Continue Reading
By Saber Azam* GENEVA, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) – The fourth and last presidential election in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019 was yet another setback to the democratic process. Not only did it take months for the Independent Election Commission… Continue Reading
By Hall Gardner* – Wall Street International Magazine Countdown to World War Trump IV I. Now that he possesses only a small kitchen cabinet full of “yes men” to advise him, it should not have been surprising that President Trump… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) – When President Saddam Hussein ran one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes in the militarily-volatile Middle East during 1979-2003, US newspapers routinely described him as “the strongman of Iraq” —… Continue Reading
BY NETA C. CRAWFORD* – THE CONVERSATION The figure includes $838 billion in “emergency” and “overseas contingency operation” funding and $59 billion spent by the State Department and USAID on Iraq and Syria Even if the U.S. administration decided to leave — or was evicted… Continue Reading
