I come not to praise Zbigniew Brzezinski, but to bury him beneath a damning fact omitted from his New York Times and Washington Post obituaries: He bears enormous responsibility for the rise of the Taliban, al Qaeda and ISIS. In 1979, serving as national security...
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This Memorial Day, Remember the Victims of Democide
by Thomas L. Knapp | May 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Note: This column was originally published for Memorial Day 2016 This weekend, Americans will seize the opportunity to sleep in an extra day, fire up the family grill, and maybe — probably not, but maybe — wheel out to a family cemetery, lay flowers on graves, and...
TGIF: Trump’s Mideast Mission Impossible
by Sheldon Richman | May 26, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
By now, comparing someone to the underwear gnomes of South Park fame is trite. Were it not for Donald Trump, I wouldn't go near it. But I cannot resist because it's a salient feature of his way of "thinking" -- although posing would be the better word here....
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A US Ally or Danger to the World?
by Phillip Parrish | May 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump was in the news over the weekend because he made his first foreign trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. President Trump and his family were greeted at the airport by King Salman, who rode to the Ritz Carlton hotel with the President. Later in the...
Book Review: The Imperial Cruise
by Kym Robinson | May 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James D. Bradley This is a book that perhaps comes into the category of "revisionist history," not because Bradley invents some obscure series of events or manipulates facts in a manner to convince the reader...
What Is Going On in Syria?
by David Nelson | May 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What is going on in Syria? There is a civil war being fought between the Syrian government, led by president Bashar al-Assad, and various rebel groups, whose goal is to overthrow Assad and his regime. The two sides are backed by various groups, both internal and...
U.S.A. Gives Yemenis Cholera, 300,000 Infected in Next Six Months
by UPI | May 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
May 21 (UPI) -- A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 315 people since April 27 and is spreading with "unprecedented" speed, the United Nations' World Health Organization said Sunday. More than 29,300 suspected cases have been reported in 19 of the country's...
Trump Advisers Want at Least 50,000 US Troops in Afghanistan
by Jason Ditz | May 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Publicly US strategy in the Afghan War has been based around the conceit that the conflict is in a “stalemate,” despite mounting losses by the Afghan government. Advisers have offered a classified assessment on the conflict recently, however, conceding that the Ghani...
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