US foreign policy
Acting US defense secretary says it’s all ‘China, China, China’
2 Jan, 2019
While Washington is locked in tough trade talks with Beijing, China is also on the mind of the acting Defense Secretary Patrick...
The Game around Syria
Syrian Army ‘raises flag’ in country’s Kurdish province for 1st time since start of civil war
28 Dec, 2018
Damascus says it has deployed troops to...
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Political Nightmare: a Neo-Nazi ‘Phenomenon’ Made in the...
By Edu Montesanti
October 26, 2018
Not even the military dictatorship defended an ideology which is so openly fascist like Bolsonaro does today. He does not...
Trump stages visit to Iraq amid mounting crisis over Syria troop...
By Bill Van Auken
27 December 2018
US President Donald Trump staged a surprise visit to an American airbase in western Iraq Wednesday in what...
After Mattis’s Resignation, a President Unbound
By Mark Landler
December 21, 2018
For most of his tumultuous 23 months in office, President Trump has tried to shake off anyone who would restrain...
Trump’s Decision to Leave Syria Was No ‘Surprise’
To say it was impulsive, or that the entire military opposes it, would be grossly misreading the situation.
By Mark Perry
December 20, 2018
In 1966, in...
U.S. Starts Withdrawing Troops From Syria but Campaign Not Over, White...
Decision on pullout follows Trump's talk with Erdogan - All State Department personnel to evacuate in next 24 hours - Netanyahu informed by Trump...
CNN sacks contributor after ‘anti-Semitic’ pro-Palestinian speech at UN
30 Nov, 2018
Academic Marc Lamont Hill lost his contract as a CNN contributor after a speech about Israel and Palestine that critics called anti-Semitic....
What Foreign Threats? The Biggest Threats to America Come From its...
By Philip Giraldi
December 4, 2018
One of the local Washington television stations was doing a typical early morning honoring our soldiers schtick just before Thanksgiving....
Pakistan’s Fight Against Extremism at Home Rebuffed by Trump
Washington would be wise to engage the new Pakistani administration to help fight extremism at home and bring about reasonable solutions to regional crises,...