Tag: United States
How do you sell the idea of a moderate rebellion without alienating the extremists who will do the actual fighting?
When foreign powers started supporting armed groups to overthrow the Ba’athist government in Syria after 2011, they were unsure about who could, or should, take...
Beloved by his constituents, Vito Marcantonio spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during the Cold War and championed Puerto Rican rights
Vito Marcantonio was a visionary left-wing congressman from East Harlem from 1935 to 1937 and 1939 to 1950 who spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during...
A recent op-ed by the New York Times Editorial Board calls for the U.S. military to reinvent itself and rearm itself in new ways in the face of the Western capitalist order losing its hegemony to rising powers across the world...
U.S. media accounts of the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria failed to disclose that the U.S. had engaged in a thirteen-year-long operation that started with the Arab Spring and continued with the launching of Operation Timber Sycamore by the Obama administration, the largest covert operation...
Will Congress ever hold the CIA to account for this and other crimes by ordering a Church Committee-type investigation?
In August 2017, The New York Times reported on the Trump administration’s shutting down what it termed “one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the CIA”—the $1...
On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb attacks, the world stands in grave danger of nuclear warfare again breaking out—particularly in light of the pattern of Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the perpetuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
In the U.S, all mechanisms of diplomacy...
King Abdullah II made a pact with the devil in exchange for more than a billion dollars in annual U.S. support that helps secure his family’s tyrannical rule
In early August, Jordan’s King Abdullah II—who has ruled Jordan since 1999—announced his latest Cabinet reshuffle. Growing popular disaffection with his rule...
It has become a cliché that award ceremonies serve the award givers more than the laureates.
Admittedly, there are many worthy laureates who genuinely care to make sure the prize recipients get merit Recognition, and who could make good use of research and development’s financing.
Nonetheless, it is manifest that most...
Beneath the aircraft-carrier ceremony celebrating a “new golden age” in U.S.-Japan relations, ongoing toxic discharges from the Yokosuka naval base reveal a grimmer alliance—one built on secrecy, contamination and a surrender of environmental sovereignty.
When President Donald Trump strode onto the flight deck of the USS George Washington at Yokosuka,...
At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent...
