Category: Foreign Policy

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Patrick Cockburn: Ending multiple wars

It’s time America explored how to end the wars it has helped cause since 2001, rather than dropping more bombs

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Vijay Prashad: Deadly Propaganda Events

There have been these two very important demonstration effects by the United States in the very region where they’ve constructed the battlefield of the War on Terror

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Gareth Porter: New Revelations Belie Trump Claims

The alleged device for a sarin attack could not have been delivered from the air but only from the ground, meaning that the chemical attack may not have been the result of the Syrian airstrike

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John Feffer: The Worst of Both Worlds

The greenhorn president is heading down a well-worn path: see a problem, fire a missile at it.

William Astore: “America-First”?

Putting the U.S. Military First, Second, and Third

Jesselyn Radack: Executive Power, Drones, and Trump

We opened Pandora’s box and unleashed drones upon humankind. But in this case, the damage was entirely foreseeable

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John Pilger: Australia beckons a war with China

Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China. Wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower.   The United States is at a critical moment. Having exported its all-powerful manufacturing base, run down its industry Read more…

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Robert Fisk: Ignorant of history

Gas, cruise missiles, barrel bombs, Hitler and the American media. Mix them all up and I suppose you get Trump’s new policy in the Middle East

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Marjorie Cohn: Trump’s Syria Attack Trampled Many Laws

Regardless of who is responsible for the Khan Sheikhoun chemical deaths, however, Trump’s response violated both U.S. and international law

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Vijay Prashad: America’s Latest Imperial Disaster

The rights and ambitions of the Syrian people are irrelevant to these plots and schemes

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