Fifty Years of Imperial Wars: Results and Perspectives
Introduction Over the past 50 years the US and European powers have engaged in countless imperial wars throughout the world. The drive for world supremacy has been clothed in the rhetoric of “world...
View Article7 Middle East Contradictions in Search of a Strategy
The first test of a foreign policy's coherence is whether its actions and declarations meet the standard of elementary logic. There is abundant evidence that American policies in the Middle East fail...
View ArticleUS combat death in Iraq reflects intensifying war
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) -- The combat death Tuesday of a U.S Navy SEAL who was advising Kurdish forces in Iraq coincides with a gradually deepening American role in fighting a resilient Islamic State,...
View ArticleTrump’s Hard Line on Iran Will Give Saudis Free Hand in Yemen
The Trump administration’s truculent warning last week that it was putting Iran “on notice” over its recent missile test and a missile strike on a Saudi warship off the coast of Yemen appears...
View ArticlePress Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest and Special Presidential Envoy...
(Source: President of the United States) James S. Brady Press Briefing Room **Please see below for a correction, marked with an asterisk. 12:47 P.M. EST MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Before...
View ArticlePress Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 5/22/2015 (President of the...
(Source: President of the United States) The White House Office of the Press Secretary James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:15 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. It's nice to see you all....
View ArticleKerry Sought Missile Strikes To Force Syria’s Assad To Step Down
Jeffrey Goldberg’s newly published book-length article on Barack Obama and the Middle East includes a major revelation that brings US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Syrian diplomacy into sharper...
View ArticleLong after most U.S. troops have left Iraq, civilians are dying in 'obscene'...
It’s a place where the daily grind — the office commute, a quick trip to the neighborhood market — could end in death, abduction or torture. Civilians in Iraq face “staggering” violence on a daily...
View ArticleA Westerner with extensive on-the-ground experience in Syria and Iraq...
Editor’s Note: This author is writing under a pen name. I know the author’s identity and while his arguments are surely controversial, I am confident in his sourcing and subject matter expertise. I...
View ArticleObama's "Retooled" Foreign Policy Needs A Do Over (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) Looking Back At Several Claims Obama Made A Year Ago That Don't Hold Much Water Today On May 28, 2014, Obama Laid Out A "Retooled" Foreign Policy Agenda In Response To...
View ArticleRetired Soldier & Veteran Affairs News 22 December 2016 (AUSA - Association...
(Source: AUSA - Association of the United States Army) DEAL REACHED ON 2017 NDAA A halt to the drawdown of Soldiers was only one of the items AUSA cheered as the details of a negotiated annual defense...
View ArticleFight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq’s “Generation 2000”...
(Source: International Crisis Group) I. Executive Summary Beset by political dysfunction, endemic corruption and a jihadist threat, Iraq is squandering its greatest asset: its youth. By failing to...
View ArticleGlobal Hegemonic Mindset
Achieving world mastery requires confronting questionable areas, current or potential obstructionism to American dominance, sequentially ordered in an intended systematic pattern of hegemony, except...
View ArticleWhat If There Is No Plan B for Iraq?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. On June 13th, Greg Jaffe and Missy Ryan of the Washington Post reported what should have been big news (though it was hardly noted). In recent White House “debates”...
View ArticleStatement on a Syrian Policy Framework (International Crisis Group)
(Source: International Crisis Group) REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh Introduction On its current trajectory, and with no military or diplomatic breakthrough on the horizon, the Syrian war will worsen. Four...
View ArticleSyria Framework (International Crisis Group)
(Source: International Crisis Group) REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh Introduction On its current trajectory, and with no military or diplomatic breakthrough on the horizon, the Syrian war will worsen. Four...
View ArticleNATO in Search of New Animosity
NATO was at a standstill until the Wales-UK gathering hurriedly spelled out NATO’s futuristic intent for new animosities to claim relevance and operational opportunism. The focal issue of NATO’s role...
View ArticleWhat Will Trump's Foreign Policy Mean for the World? An Interview With...
! What happens in the Middle East now? Patrick Cockburn is a journalist for the Independent who has covered the Middle East for decades and is credited with forecasting the Islamic State’s ascendance...
View ArticleChampions and Orphans: The 1968 Fresno City College-College of the Sequoias...
Here’s the story. College of the Sequoias football Coach Al Baldock wanted to beat Fresno City College Coach Clare Slaughter in 1968. Instead, Slaughter – blessed with some of the finest talent in the...
View ArticleHow Media Distorted Syrian Ceasefire’s Breakdown
Coverage of the breakdown of the partial ceasefire in Syria illustrated the main way corporate news media distort public understanding of a major foreign policy story. The problem is not that the key...
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