In Foreign Affairs, Alexander Cooley writes about how a less unipolar world is prompting competition for foreign expansion among the great powers, particularly the US, Russia, and China in the Central Asian countries. And it means the American Empire is costing a lot...
Featured in our Viewpoints section yesterday, Anand Gopal writes at Harper's Magazine about how the media have uncritically accepted the word of the US-backed rebel fighters in Syria in order to create "a simple and self-serving narrative" about the murderous Assad...
In June, a group of academics from around Latin America plus the US wrote a letter to the State Department railing against the US military presence in Honduras and demanding that aid to the country's abusive law enforcement apparatus be halted. They exposed the drug...
From the Guardian, yet another testimony on how the US-led economic warfare on Iran is tearing people's lives apart: For Fatemeh, the pill she takes twice a day in her home in Iran means the difference between life and death. Earlier this summer when she contacted her...
Stephen Walt has a piece up at Foreign Policy cataloguing the persistent predictions of a US or Israeli war on Iran, which always turn out to be dead wrong. My favorite bit: In September 2010, for example, The Atlantic published a cover story by Jeffrey Goldberg ("The...
According to CBS News, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has leaked information to the press about a new, and allegedly more damning, assessment from the US intelligence community about Iran's nuclear program. Ever since the US National Intelligence Estimate...
The Washington Post published a remarkable piece on the front page yesterday on Syria. It was remarkable for the sheer ingenuity with which it developed a new and predictably awful reason for a broader US military intervention there. The reporter, Liz Sly, interviewed...
In an editorial this week, the Washington Post displays incredible ignorance of US foreign policy. "When the Obama administration resumed military sales to the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain in 2012," the editors naively write, "it explained the decision as an effort...
After almost four decades, the US has agreed to help Vietnam clean up the deadly poison sprayed all over the country from 1961-1971, Agent Orange. While Washington was needlessly laying waste to the Vietnamese people, they claimed to use the dangerous herbicide to...
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later [Aug. 9], a...
