Category
- Africa (98)
- Asia (573)
- Authoritarianism (112)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (337)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (161)
- Dissent (263)
- Economy (455)
- Education (51)
- Elderly (2)
- Energy (770)
- Environment (916)
- Europe (505)
- Featured (1,466)
- fiction (5)
- Food (5)
- Guns (8)
- History (153)
- Human Rights (841)
- Immigration (13)
- International (501)
- Islamophobia (202)
- Juan Cole (264)
- Latin America (34)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (296)
- Middle East (4,920)
- Arab World (3,600)
- Iran (433)
- Israel (581)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,127)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (185)
- Turkey (295)
- military (102)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (91)
- NATO (3)
- Natural Disasters (10)
- nuclear weapons (23)
- Peace (52)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (22)
- Poverty (3)
- privacy (19)
- racism (207)
- religion (609)
- Rights (108)
- Romance (1)
- science (79)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (19)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (18)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (243)
- Terrorism (960)
- Tolerance (3)
- Uncategorized (8,004)
- United Nations (56)
- Urbanization (2)
- US Foreign Policy (402)
- US politics (2,218)
- Anti-War Movement (5)
- Campaign Finance (21)
- Censors (20)
- Central Intelligence Agency (53)
- Civil Rights (75)
- Constitution (213)
- Democratic Party (410)
- Domestic Terrorism (14)
- Drone Warfare (18)
- Espionage (102)
- Ethnicities (195)
- Far Right (145)
- FBI (28)
- Foreign Policy (161)
- Gay Rights (11)
- Guns (43)
- Immigration (95)
- Israel Lobbies (62)
- Militarization (188)
- National Security State (321)
- Native Americans (12)
- Nuclear arsenal (5)
- penitentiaries (5)
- Pentagon (170)
- Police (18)
- prison reform (1)
- Puerto Rico (4)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (1,243)
- Supreme Court (18)
- Voter suppression (14)
- Whistleblowers (3)
- Xenophobia (5)
- Veterans (15)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (182)
- Western Religion (311)
- White Supremacists (27)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (189)
- workers (102)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (97)
Archives: US Foreign Policy
Giraldi Controversy: No, US wars in Mideast are not for Israel Lobby
By Ian Berman* | (Informed Comment) | - - CIA Veteran Philip Giraldi kicked off a firestorm with his article, “America’s Jews are Driving America’s Wars.” A man of considerable experience with…
Taliban target SecDef Mattis Helicopter in Kabul, hit Airport
TeleSur | - - U.S. forces responded with an airstrike but one of the missiles went off course in a “malfunction,” causing several casualties. Kabul's airport has been attacked by militants during…
Is Trump setting US course toward War with China?
By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise…
US Military in Syria to Stay, YPG Kurds Say
TeleSur | - - The United States has been funding and supporting the group for months, due to “strategic interests” in the region, a spokesperson revealed. U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria —…
No Longer “Indispensable?” The World is moving on from Trump’s America
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and…
Why do so Many US-trained Foreign Officers Make Coups at Home?
Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Winning! It’s the White House watchword when it comes to the U.S. armed forces. “We will give our military the tools you need…
Syria: The American War on Civilians
By Laura Gottesdiener | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It was midday on Sunday, May 7th, when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes again began bombing the neighborhood of Wassim Abdo’s family. They…
Top Ten Ways your Taxes pay for Endless War
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - You wouldn’t know it, based on the endless cries for more money coming from the military, politicians, and the president, but these…
Trump: Aid to Syrian Rebels was ‘Massive,’ ‘Dangerous;’ slams Post
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump trashed the Washington Post on Monday, calling it the Amazon Washington Post and implicitly complaining about a July 19 article on his…
Not Winning in Afghanistan: Why?
By Solaiman M. Fazel | (Informed Comment) | - - Candidate Trump in his dynamic public rallies repeatedly criticized the former U.S. president for not winning anymore. Trump also mentioned, “If I’m…
In Int’l Diplomacy, Does Trump know the Art of the Deal?
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - From North Korea to Russia to the Middle East, there's no shortage of deal-making needed. But beware the fine print…
Is Trump Sign or Cause of US Imperial Meltdown?
By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - The superhighway to disaster is already being paved. From Donald Trump’s first days in office, news of the damage to America’s…
The Violent “American Century”
By John Feffer | (FPIF) | Originally published in Korea Quarterly | - - The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it coming to an end? John Dower is…
1/2 of World’s Civilian War Deaths were in Syria, Iraq & Yemen during past Half-Decade
By IPS World Desk | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME/GENEVA (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2015, nearly half of all civilian war deaths worldwide occurred in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,…
Trump to Send 4,000 More US Troops to Afghanistan as Mattis admits ‘Not Winning’
TeleSur | - - The Trump adminstration plans to deploy 4,000 more troops, extending the nearly The official says troops will train Afghan soldiers, and fight Taliban and Islamic State group forces.…
How Long can Qatar defy its powerful neighbors? It depends on Trump
By Nader Habibi | (Conversation) | - - The recent decision by half the nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and a few other countries to isolate fellow member Qatar came…
Mattis overrules Trump on Qatari “terrorism,” sells it $12 bn in F-15s
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defied his boss Donald Trump on Wednesday and inked a deal with the Qatar government to sell it…
Tillerson-Trump Rumble over Qatar shows White House Divisions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday called on Saudi Arabia and its allies to halt their blockade of Qatar. "There are humanitarian…