US foreign policy
How Netanyahu Got Trump to Sign Off on Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal...
Trump became the fourth U.S. president to uphold the decades-long pledge not to press Israel to give up its nuclear weapons, The New Yorker...
‘Astonishing’ CIA memo shows Brazil’s ex-dictator authorized torture and executions
Newly unearthed document details Ernesto Geisel’s approval of over 100 executions of ‘subversives’, sparking immediate outcry in Brazil
By Tom Phillips
11 May 2018
Brazil’s...
Krauthammer: Α Neocon who never understood why Bibi needed Trump
Charles Krauthammer: The Intellectual Conservative Who Loves Bibi, but Loathes Trump
Krauthammer, who announced he is dying of cancer, wrote often about how he sees...
Αfter the Korean summit, US threatens Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Russia
According to the Israeli Debka website, in position off the Syrian coast is the nuclear-powered USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier – from which...
The Neocon aims: Provoking Katastroika in N. Korea, Prepare war with...
A Successful Trump-Kim Summit Could Be the Prelude to War With Iran
In Singapore, the Trump administration hopes to ‘clear the table’ of the North...
The Salvador Option: the US is Once Again Supporting Death Squads...
by Brett Wilkins
June 5, 2018
The United States has been quietly funding and equipping elite paramilitary police units in El Salvador accused of extrajudicially murdering...
United States and Europe: now two strategies collide
By Giulietto Chiesa
The outcome of the Canadian G-7, with the two sensational moves by Donad Trump (re-opening the road to Putin and the early...
Quitting Syria too soon would be a ‘blunder’: Mattis
8 June 2018
US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis warned Friday it would be a "strategic blunder" to pull out of Syria before UN-led peace...
In Unanimous Vote, House Says No Legal Right to Attack Iran
By Prof. Marjorie Cohn
June 07, 2018
In a little noticed but potentially monumental development, the House of Representatives voted unanimously for an amendment to the...
Intellectuals and the Empire | by James Petras
De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
May 05, 2018
This article is also available in Russian, read here.
Introduction
Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research,...