Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland gave an interview with exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar that was published to YouTube on September 3 and the conversation deserves more attention than it received. While an interview from...
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Foreign Interference
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 20, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy
People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understanding rather than alarmed. The U.S. government conducts a wide-ranging interventionist foreign policy, which can substantially...
Israel’s Pager Terrorism
by Brad Pearce | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Tuesday, September 17, Lebanon experienced one of the most widespread terrorist attacks in history. All at once, pagers across the south of the country indicated they had received a message and then exploded. As of Tuesday night it was said fourteen people were...
Ukraine at the Crossroads
by Ted Snider | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The West is being increasingly confronted with the cold realization that Ukraine cannot win this war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country's prewar borders, but the reclamation...
The Case for Pessimism in Sino-American Relations
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On September 11, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the director of the Asia Engagement Program at Defense Priorities and director of the China Initiative at Brown University, Dr. Lyle Goldstein, on the need for Washington to work to improve its relations with...
To Promote Peace, You Must Fight Statism
by Oscar Grau | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
U.S.-Zionist imperialism in the Middle East is far from coming to an end. The Hamas attack of October 7 on Israel triggered a highly murderous phase in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The subsequent retaliation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and...
Drone Swarms and the Homicidal Impunity of Governments
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drone swarms have been under development for years now, with the usual suspects touting the virtues of the latest and greatest automated technology to be purchased through lucrative government contracts for what are claimed to be purposes of national defense. As the...
TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an...