Category: Foreign Policy
“In my view, the United States must seek partnerships not just between governments, but between peoples.”
Paul Atwood: Korea? It’s About ChinaHow many citizens have ever asked themselves what the United States is doing in Korea in the first place? In November of 1945, two months after the surrender of Japan, Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall spoke to President Truman and the chief figures of his cabinet about his fears of a “the tragic Read more…
Ryan Lizza: Dizzying Trump-Russia RevelationsThe possible outcomes of the Russia investigation have always been wildly divergent. On one end of the spectrum, it is possible that the Russian government penetrated deep inside the Trump campaign—perhaps with the candidate’s knowledge—and the two entities knowingly colluded in a clearly illegal and perhaps treasonous manner, which could lead to a delegitimization of Read more…
As early as 1998, Cedice Libertad, Atlas’s flagship think tank in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, received regular financial support from the Center for International Private Enterprise. In one grant letter, NED funds marked for Cedice are listed to help advocate ‘a change in government.’
A blatant double standard can be seen when we compare coverage of Kagame and leaders who have been defiant of the West such as the late Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
North Korea has demonstrated that it’s quite pragmatic. It will work with anyone — churches, multinational corporations — if it’s a win-win deal
John Wight: Trump at the UNNuremberg Redux
Donald Trump’s comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account
Gregory Elich: Trump’s War on the North Korean PeopleIt is not diplomacy that the Trump administration seeks, but to crush North Korea
Lawrence Wilkerson: Here We Go AgainUN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s distortions are an attempt to prepare conditions for war against Iran