US foreign policy
Trump gives US military back internationally-banned landmines in full-frontal assault on...
by Helen Buyniski, RT
31 Jan, 2020
US President Donald Trump has overturned an order banning landmines passed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, whose mere signature...
For Pompeo, the Chinese CP is the central threat of our...
Pompeo names ‘the central threat of our times’ and guess what it is… It’s the Chinese Communist Party
30 Jan, 2020
US Secretary of State Mike...
How Pompeo convinced Trump to kill Soleimani and fulfilled a decade-long...
By Nicole Gaouette and Jamie Gangel
January 11, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was a driving force behind President Donald Trump's decision to kill a...
The Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran
Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, who urged Trump to kill Qassem Soleimani, are ardent proponents of Christian Zionism
By Sarah Posner
January 9, 2020
Last Friday, a...
Few U.S. presidents have been as amoral as Trump: Joseph Nye
By Javad Heirannia
January 14, 2020
Former U.S Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs says “some of Trump’s actions are not unprecedented in the...
John Kerry fact checks Trump’s lies about the Iran deal
John Kerry tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it was "always an option" to take out Soleimani, through several administrations, but "people made a judgment that...
The Empire strikes back. Netanyahu, Trump and the Neocons
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
For the time being it seems we avoided the global disaster of an all-out confrontation between US, Israel and their allies on...
Democrats try to stop the drive to War
House Passes War Powers Challenge to Attack on Iran
Posted on January 9, 2020
In a vote heavily split along party lines, the House of Representatives...
Frustrated Dems plan war powers vote over Iran
Democrats were skeptical over the administration's justification to kill a key Iranian general.
By SARAH FERRIS, JOHN BRESNAHAN and CONNOR O’BRIEN
01/08/202
House Democrats emerged from a...
The U.S. Public Still Doesn’t Want War With Iran
According to recent polling data, the majority of Americans blame Trump’s policies for heightened tensions with Iran—and the killing of Suleimani won’t change that.
By...