In March, the House of Representatives passed a measure to ban the online app TikTok unless its owners found a new buyer. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused TikTok of being “an espionage tool of the Chinese Communist government,” though The Intercept reported that U.S. intelligence had produced “no evidence that...

The Korean War has never ended: Despite the U.S. government’s attempts to portray it as a long-ago victory, it has never signed a peace agreement with North Korea. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops continue to be stationed on the Korean peninsula, first as part of the Cold War and now as part of the New Cold War encirclement of China...

What does NATO have to do with New Zealand and vice versa? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is what it says on the tin, and New Zealand is about as far away from the North Atlantic as possible. NATO was set up as a united European and North...

Far from being in the interests of advancing data privacy or the security of working-class people in the United States, banning TikTok would be a boon to American social media companies who routinely spy on their users and collaborate with intelligence and other government agencies. Instead, the bill is just part of the U.S. attack on China’s growing influence across the world...

Part of mounting popular disaffection against South Korea’s conservative leader whom the RAND Corporation branded as a “perfect partner” for the U.S. South Korea is hitting the headlines again but not for the reasons that its leaders would like. Protests have erupted in the wake of a new law supported...

The Biden administration claims that U.S. foreign policy works to uphold human rights and democracy while containing rising authoritarian powers such as Russia and China. Biden administration officials routinely condemn the jailing of opposition figures in Russia like Alexey Navalny and by socialist governments like Nicaragua and Venezuela. But the Biden...

The Juche idea or Juche ideology has been the guiding idea of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for many decades. Juche is synonymous with the DPRK. Without understanding the Juche idea, it is impossible to have any understanding of the DPRK. However, much of the media in the...

In the 1990 movie, Air America, Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr., play two Air America pilots who smuggle heroin while supporting U.S. proxies in the Vietnam War. Air America was an airline run by the CIA previously called Civil Air Transport (CAT), which had been formed by General Claire...

On February 21, 2010, 25 Afghan civilians, including four women and a child, were killed when Boeing helicopters fired Hellfire missiles made by Lockheed Martin on a convoy of SUVs traveling in the Uruzgan province in the center of Afghanistan on their way to Kabul. The helicopter pilots received intelligence...

Joe Biden, amidst his mental confusion, must think he is John McCain reincarnated. I bet he is humming, “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb; Bomb, Bomb Iran.” You know how it is: Iranians, Yemenis, they all look alike. While the bombs are causing some damage in Yemen, Yemen has seen it before...