Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?

With a peace agreement between the US and the Taliban nearly completed, will President Trump be able to do what his two predecessors were unable to do – end the US military's 18 year war on Afghanistan? Neocons at home are screaming that we must stay, Trump has...

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The Saudi Coalition Is Tearing Itself Apart

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition and its proxies are once again fighting among themselves as the UAE-backed separatists rose up against the Hadi government and seized control of most of Aden:Yemeni separatists took over most of the...

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The Return of Doomsday

Former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and former Senator Sam Nunn have a new article in Foreign Affairs about the nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and Russia. We can't run it as a viewpoint since the authors accept false conventional narratives about...

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William J. Astore on Torture USA

Five years ago, President Obama infamously said, "We tortured some folks." And no one was held accountable; indeed, as Tom Tomorrow put it in a cartoon from that time, "The only government official who went to jail for it [John Kiriakou] was the whistleblower who...

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