On January 6, Indonesia formally entered BRICS as a full member. It was an important geopolitical shift that went largely unreported and little discussed in the mainstream western media. BRICS is an international organization whose primary purpose is to balance U.S....
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State Dept. Plans New $7 Billion Arms Sale to Israel
by Connor Freeman | Feb 10, 2025 | Foreign Policy, News
The State Department has formally notified Congress of its plans for a massive arms sale to Israel worth over $7 billion, including thousands of missiles and bombs, the Associated Press reported on Friday. This follows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to...
Lethality First, Humanity Last
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Pentagon personnel have been aiming to increase the lethality of troops for decades now, under the assumption that this will naturally result in military victory. The latest public figure to promote lethality is President Donald Trump’s recently confirmed secretary of...
Pulling the Money Chain: The NGO Network in Ukraine and the Global War on Terror
by Matt Wolfson | Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Detritus from Joe Biden's administration doesn’t just amount to the obvious—inflation and deficit spending, regulations and wars. There’s also been a more subtle shift off of these failures, affecting who has power in our country and how they’ll use it in the future....
Forty Years Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy
by Jim Bovard | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X: Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://t.co/8smJsP5Hji — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025 After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to...
Did Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Just Leak?
by Ted Snider | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine. The existence of the plan has...
‘Red Hand’ Revolt in Serbia: People Power or Color Revolution?
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For six weeks now, Serbia has been rattled by what purports to be a student rebellion, leading to the prime minister’s resignation last week and rumors of a snap election. Students from sixty-three colleges of five state and two private universities, as well as four...
Political Instability Looms Amid Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
by José Niño | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 15, 2025, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement, bringing Israel’s punitive military campaign in the Gaza Strip to a temporary halt. While this agreement will allay tensions in the short-term, Israel will soon be confronted with tensions on...