US foreign policy
Mattis Defends Iran Deal as Trump Mulls Withdrawing
Says nuclear deal has very robust oversight provisions
By Jason Ditz Posted on
April 26, 2018
Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary James Mattis...
Haley, the American Monster
Haley: Hamas using ‘children as cannon fodder’ in Gaza
Israeli group B'Tselem urges UN 'to protect Palestinian lives'; Israel says it's defending against terror attacks
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Israel wants others to make its Wars
April 24, 2018
Gen. Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command, failed to convince Israel’s leaders that Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops from...
Striking Syria: U.S. Shameless Violation of International Law. Fabricating Evidence and...
The Real Reasons. Defeat in Syria is more than defeat in one Arab state. It portends a significant shift in the power balance in...
Here Are All the Reasons Striking Syria Was a Bad Idea
By Ted Galen Carpenter
April 16, 2018
The air and missile strikes that the United States and its British and French allies launched against Syrian government...
None of This Month’s Craziest Nuclear Stories Involved North Korea
With the North Korea nuclear standoff still making headlines, other nuclear-related stories – including those involving Saudi Arabia, Israel and Syria – have largely...
Whose Wars?
Israel continues to wag the dog for Middle Eastern wars
By Philip Giraldi
April 17, 2018
In March 2003, Pat Buchanan wrote a groundbreaking article entitled...
“Locked and Loaded”: What Fresh Pretext Will Trigger US in Syria?
Between the imminent arrival of thousands of U.S. troops, Israel’s continued military action against Syria, and the Syrian rebels poised to stage a false-flag...
After Syria strikes, drumbeat grows for wider US war
By Will Morrow
19 April 2018
In the wake of last weekend’s US-British-French missile strikes on Syria, a campaign is growing in the American...
President Trump’s War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses...
April 16, 2018
The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump’s orders launched a wave of over 100...