Foreign Policy

South Korea Should Give US Troops the Boot

by Jacob Hornberger | Apr 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The best thing that South Koreans could ever do, both for themselves and for the American people, as well as the Japanese citizenry, is boot all U.S. troops out of their country. Isn’t the reason obvious? If President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA succeed in...

Al-Qaeda Leader: Syrian Jihadists Should Wage ‘Patient’ Guerilla War

by Jason Ditz | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Says Syrian War a 'Long Battle' Against Crusaders, Shi'ites Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has issued a statement today calling for the various al-Qaeda-linked jihadist factions in Syria to be more patient, and rely of guerilla tactics in what he says is shaping up...

Why Liberals and Conservatives Disagree on Police

by Emily Ekins and Matthew Feeney | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

"We have to give power back to the police,” Donald Trump proclaimed during his campaign, and earlier this year he delivered … or so he thinks. The early weeks of Trump’s presidency indeed match his campaign rhetoric, replete with an executive order seeking to make...

FBI Agrees to Give Records to Anti-War Reporters

by Helen Christophi | Apr 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – In a win for government-transparency advocates, the FBI has agreed to turn over records it created when it spied on two anti-war journalists and pay $299,000 to settle their attorneys’ fees. The deal, which brings to a close a four-year battle for...

US ‘Deep State’ Sold Out Counter-Terrorism to Keep Itself in Business

by Gareth Porter | Apr 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on 12 April calling on President Trump to ”back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria”. The reason he gave for that recommendation was not that US wars in the Middle East are...

Capitol Media Group Didn’t Tell Vets They Were Lobbying for Saudi Arabia

by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Apr 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Army vet: Scott Wheeler “never told me Saudi Arabia was behind it, nor would I have agreed to do it had I known” Other veterans, still convinced by flawed argument used to lobby against anti-terror law, at peace with Saudi sponsorship Scott Wheeler with Veterans on...

The Fear Racket

by Jacob Hornberger | Apr 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Ever since the conversion of the U.S. government to a national security state after World War II, the coin of the realm has been crisis and fear. Seize on crises — and sometimes even instigate them — and then when fear strikes the hearts and minds of the citizenry,...