Building on its reputation as an unreliable diplomatic partner, the United States announced on October 12 that it was pulling out of the deal that would have granted Iran access to $6 billion of its money in exchange for the release of five American prisoners. This...
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On Ethnic Cleansing, Washington DC Has Always Been the Hypocrite
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. administrations have repeatedly condemned foreign adversaries for engaging in ethnic cleansing of minority populations. That has been an explicit grievance against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because of Beijing’s treatment of its Uygur population in...
Lessons in Atrocity Propaganda
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It has been a little over a week since Hamas attacked Israel. In that week, we have learned more of what 5th Generation Warfare looks and feels like in the context of actual battles taking place in a geographic theater of war. Although the Israel-Palestine conflict...
Selling Your Soul, And Your Country
by Dan McKnight | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What is treason? The U.S. Constitution defines “Treason against the United States” as “only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” “Enemies” is a high bar, and ought to be—the penalty for treason is death, after...
It’s All About Provoking Your Reaction
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
So wise up! With terrorism, as with all asymmetric political action, "the action is in the reaction of the opposition," as Saul Alinsky, the leftist activist, put it in his book Rules for Radicals. This isn't conspiracy stuff, nor impossible "4th dimensional...
Putin’s Valdai Speech, What You Need to Know
by Ted Snider | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club near Sochi, Russia. The session was attended by scholars and diplomats from forty-two countries. Putin spoke for half an hour and then answered...
Israel Fostered the Rise of Hamas, Even After It Turned to Terrorism
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Oct 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the aftermath of Saturday’s terrorist and military attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “The forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas…In fighting Hamas, Israel is not only fighting for...
Watching Us vs. Them Through a Digital Keyhole
by Kym Robinson | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the warhorse so that we could talk about 'target-rich environments' and 'collateral damage'—that most infantile of attempts to...