Category: Foreign Policy
Dave Lindorff: Trump Disses Troops but Correctly Labels 2 of America’s Costliest Wars Unjustified or ‘Stupid’
Medea Benjamin: Biden Urged to Adopt a Good Neighbor Policy Toward Latin America
Conn Hallinan: China & the US: 21st Century’s “Great Game”
Steve Ellner: The Juan Guaidó Strategy Has Proven to be a Fiasco
Vijay Prashad: How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
Medea Benjamin: U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China
Juan Cole: Iran’s Khamenei: Not going to help Trump get Reelected by Negotiating
John Feffer: Okinawa: Will the Pandemic Transform U.S. Military Bases?
Medea Benjamin: King Joe and the Round Table: Biden’s America in a Multipolar World
They deserve to be honored for doing their duty or for going beyond the call of duty for what they at least thought was right, and Trump should be tossed out of the White House and his role as Commander in Chief for mocking them and dishonoring them.
Progressive groups see the need to push a new administration to make a positive contribution to the well-being of people throughout the hemisphere
The U.S. has dominated the Pacific Ocean—sometimes called an “American lake”—since the end of World War II. Suddenly Americans have a competitor, although it is a rivalry that routinely gets overblown.
Now What will Washington Do?
Trump wants a war, but not an open war; the U.S. military knows that it might be able to flatten Caracas, but it would not be able to win a war against the Venezuelan people
Houssem Chammam: At a time of a global crises, the United States is weaponizing its humanitarian aidThese policies condemn many of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people to a bleak and violent future; the type of mistakes that often find their way back to the United States
Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China
Khamenei said that even if Iran met all of Washington’s demands, that would just encourage the insatiable American elite to start making new demands
An outbreak of COVID-19 among U.S. service personnel on Okinawa may help anti-base protesters stop construction of the replacement facility at Henoko
If Biden is elected, it will be up to peace-loving Americans to demand a foreign policy that takes illegal military “options,” brutal sanctions and a new arms race off the table and replaces them with a new commitment to the rule of law and “Round Table” diplomacy