Wednesday, 2 July , 2025

US foreign policy

Trump gets his sanctions, now he wants more blood

Trump says UN North Korea sanctions are 'not a big deal' By Nicole Gaouette and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and congressional lawmakers signaled...

UN Security Council imposes severe sanctions on North Korea

By Peter Symonds 12 September 2017 Under heavy pressure and threats from Washington, the UN Security Council voted unanimously on Monday evening for harsh...

Salvador Allende’s Last Speech

Salvador Allende pronounced his last speech from La Moneda on 11th September 1973.

September 11th, 1973

Footage from the 2004 Chilean movie "Machuca"

Salvador Allende: In Memoriam | by Regis Debray

SEPT. 26, 1973 PARIS—Within him , will power vibrated stronger than ideas. Salvador was first of all a man of heart, for whom all that...

The Crimes of Henry Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens details his research on the war crimes of Henry Kissinger. Hitchens details Kissinger's involvement in assassination, torture and mass murder in in Vietnam,...

The neoliberalism-shock therapy connection: Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine

Published online 16 October 2007. cassiodorusblog.wordpress.com This is a review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, a detailed, journalistic history of neoliberalism which emphasizes its connection...

On the Brink of Nuclear War

September 5, 2017 Special Report: As nuclear war looms in Korea, the life-or-death question is whether President Trump and his team can somehow marshal the...

As US threatens North Korea, NATO chief warns of “more dangerous...

By Peter Symonds 11 September 2017 While the US continued to provocatively intensify tensions with North Korea, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg joined the chorus of...

Economic Sanctions: Too Much of a Bad Thing

By Richard N. Haass June 1, 1998 Economic sanctions are increasingly being used to promote the full range of American foreign policy objectives. Yet...