Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation is a non-profit organization receiving public and private support that coordinates development projects, educational programs and cultural exchanges across Asia, in part with the aim of facilitating better relations with the U.S., according to its website.
Put in slightly different terms, The Asia...
President Donald Trump has expressed enthusiasm about Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, stating that her elevation to head the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in late October was “tremendous news.”
Speaking to U.S. troops aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in Japan on October 28 during his Asia tour, Trump introduced...
Funding for SNAP, the federal Supplemental Food Assistance Program, is set to expire on November 1st due to the ongoing government shutdown that’s about to hit the one-month mark...
Charlotte Dennett is an investigative journalist and lawyer whose father, Daniel Dennett, was considered to be America’s first master spy in the Middle East.
As head of counter-intelligence for the Central Intelligence group—the immediate forerunner of the CIA—Daniel traveled to Saudi Arabia in 1947 to determine the route of a...
On October 16, 2025, Donald Trump’s second term ignited a reckless campaign against Venezuela, greenlighting covert CIA operations, deploying 4,000 Marines and F-35 jets to the Caribbean, and launching strikes on Venezuelan vessels that have killed more than 27 people—all framed as a fight against drugs and migration.
This is no noble mission:...
The history of modern Israel and Palestine is not just a story of land, security and diplomacy.
It is also a story of narratives: Who gets to define reality, whose pain counts, and whose voice carries weight in the global conversation?
For decades, the pro-Israel lobby has worked tirelessly to frame...
MAGA warnings of an enemy invasion through the gap helps justify cruel policies targeting vulnerable people who have been victimized by U.S. foreign policy
Known in Spanish as Tapón del Darién, the Darién Gap is a 106-kilometer stretch of jungle straddling Panama and Colombia that encompasses two UNESCO world heritage...
From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors
For decades, the United States championed free markets and fair competition—until it no longer had the upper hand.
Today, oligarchs like Peter Thiel—a key player in the U.S. security apparatus and founder of Palantir, the taxpayer-funded...
Millions of people in over 2,700 cities and towns took part in No Kings Day protests across the country on October 18th...
Rather than being some kind of prophet, Orwell was a literary Cold Warrior who plagiarized works and critiqued the Soviet Union more than he did Nazi Germany
The current state of ever-expanding government surveillance and endless war elicits frequent comparisons to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The conventional biography portrays...
